Background:

Hair plays an important role in one's personality and builds confidence. Now-a-days, chemical and physical hair relaxers are used very commonly in the society. The adverse effects occurring with the use of the professional hair relaxers are not well documented.

Aim of the work:

Our study aims to assess the adverse effects caused by chemical hair straighteners.

Materials and Methods:

The sample was restricted to females. This study was carried out on sixty female subjects who underwent chemical hair relaxers once or more. A questionnaire was given to the volunteers who matched our criteria then the data was documented, tabulated and statistically analyzed using SPSS computer program version 24 for frequency, distribution and significance rates.

Results:

Adverse effects reported by the sample after undergoing the procedure were found to be high (95.56%). Out of which the followings were the common adverse effects reported; frizzy hair, dandruff, hair loss, thinning and weakening of hair and greying of hair.

Conclusions:

From our study, it can be stated that most of the samples had adverse effects, which was as high as 95.56%. So, we can conclude that usage of chemical hair relaxers can cause adverse effects to the hair.