Black Hair Care: 4 Easy At-Home Relaxers

By McKenzie Harris
Aug 22, 2011
10:36 am

Natural hair is carving out a niche of it’s own, but we can’t forget about our relaxed sistas out there either. For the times when you can’t always make it to the salon, we’ve provided you with four at home relaxers you can use yourself that will keep your hair healthy, shiny, manageable and straight as a bone. —mckenzie harris

Softsheen Carson Optimum Care Salon Collection

Black Hair Care: 4 Easy At-Home Relaxers — Softsheen Carson Optimum Care Salon Collection, Sallybeauty.com, $8

This new relaxer features professional- quality formulas for salon results at home and offers breakage protection repairs, reconstructs, and replenishes each strand of hair with 100 percent optimum care and conditioning.

Dark and Lovely Healthy Gloss 5

This Dark and Lovely, shea moisture, no-lye créme relaxer is perfect for ladies with color treated hair for two reasons — it’s got moisturizing conditioner, and the combination of moisture hair créme with silk keratin serum, helps preserve the five characteristics of healthy hair; moisture, shine, strength, softness, and body.

Olive Oil Built-In Protection No-Lye Relaxer

This incredibly rich and easy to apply, eight-step process relaxer protects the hair from damage and deposits moisture, during the relaxer process.

Motions Silkening Shine Relaxer System

Relax your hair with this system every four to six weeks to achieve silky, strong, shimmery, fresh-from-the-salon hair with 85 percent less breakage and 80 percent more shine.