SmilingElephant
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I would like to know for future reference. I HATE that smell! Is there a certain serum you use during or after straightening?
TIA
TIA
Do you clean it while hot to kill bacteria or just simply clean it with the alcohol?
I straighten every month to every other month. My stylist does silkwraps or saran wraps to get my hair straight. My hair never has a burnt smell to it. After my shampoo and stream deep condition, she rinses and applies goat milk to my hair to detangle and then sits me under the dryer. After my hair is dried, she blowdries with a handheld and flat-irons. No product is on my hair and it comes out very silky, shiny, and with tons of body. I think the key to it is no product to very little product.
SmilingElephant
It has nothing to do with bacteria (the high heat takes cares of that, anyway). The purpose of the alcohol is to dissolve any residue (grease, cones) that is not water soluble. You could wipe with water first. Make sure you iron is unplugged and not too hot when doing this.
ETA: I think in your case, the leave in creamy conditioner might be to blame. This happened to me recently (burt smell) even though the temp was not too high. But I had adde ton of product to my hair, which I don't do normally.
I've never had my hair smell burnt.I would like to know for future reference. I HATE that smell! Is there a certain serum you use during or after straightening?
TIA
I would like to know for future reference. I HATE that smell! Is there a certain serum you use during or after straightening?
TIA
What if the flat-iron itself has a smell? Mine is stinky- it has smelled bad since day one so of course when I use it that gets transferred to my hair.
@babyshuf2
Not trying to change the topic. But your stylist uses goats milk as a detangler? How is that? And what makes it a good detangler? Does it also have conditioning properties.