Chemical Reactions in Curing Treatment for Permanent Hair Straightening Using Thioglycolic and Dithioglycolic Acids

    January 2009 in “ Sen'i Gakkaishi ”
    Shuntaro Ogawa, Yasufumi Takeda, Katsumi Kaneyama … Kozo Arai
    Studysummary This study found that using a bicomponent reduction system with TGA and DTDG for hair straightening limited hair damage by forming only thiol groups, while a TGA-only system formed more damaging mixed disulfide groups.
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