People, who don’t have curly hair, want them but those who have, want to get rid of them! Those with a head full of curly hair keep looking for gadgets and serums and oils and what not that can make their hair straight. In most cases, hair straightening is done using heat with gadgets like flatirons. But every time that gadget is used, it causes damage to your hair.

To combat this problem, an engineer, Ms Reid (who herself has such curly, unruly hair) from Purdue University along with her team have taken on the problem and have presented their first paper on the heat capacity for different types of hair.

As a matter of fact hairs are curly are curly or straight because of their chemical structure, influenced by genes and the distribution of protein keratin. To break these chemical bonds, heat is applied and the hairs become straight but if this heat is applied too often and at high temperatures, the hair may permanently get their chemical bonds broken leading to fried hair unable to regain their natural shape.

The team has received funding to take their research into a direction where they will analyse how heat moves through individual strands of hair and categorize hair by the tightness of its curls. A hypothesis has been presented that the amount of heat a hair can take without permanent damage will depend on the texture of hair even within same ethnicity. Reid hopes to prepare a chart that would help individuals to know the range of temperature that won’t damage their type of hair. As a secondary objective, the team may also look into evaluation of various products that claim to protect hair from heat.

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Author:Technology Blog