How Do Chemical Hair Straighteners Work?
“Hi I’m Lauren and I’m here to discuss with you how chemical hair straighteners work. First thing to know of is that your hair is made of keratin. It’s a protein that your hair and your nails are both made out of. Within that keratin protein there are three different bonds. Your hydrogen bond, your salt bond and then your disulfide bond. In order to understand how straighteners work, you need to understand why your hair is formed curly. With your disulfide bond, that is what is going to predict what the shape of your hair is going to be and what the texture is going to be. Whether it will be straight or whether it will be curly. There are two sulfur atoms which will stand apart from each other. If you hair is straight, what happens is that those sulfide bonds are very close and they’re easily connected so therefore there’s a little bend. If you sulfur atoms are far away from each other, in order to create the bond they come closer together. The closer they come to meeting and the furth
