4. The Truth About Hair Relaxers Coiled

Hair Relaxers; a way to chemically transform your hair from curly to straight but are relaxers a modern cosmetic science or a health risk to Black women? As someone who relaxed her hair from a very young age, in this episode Leanne goes on a journey to discover the truth about the chemicals that are in relaxers and the effects that this can have on our hair and health by speaking to trichologist Shirley McDonald, as well as finding out whether you can have healthy relaxed hair by speaking to relaxed hair YouTuber Fayola Douglas. 

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Hosted and Produced by Leanne Alie
Twitter: @leannealie
Instagram: @leannealie_

Assistant Produced by Sylvie Carlos
Twitter: @sylvie_frizzy
Instagram: @frizzandgo

The theme music and closing music was composed by Ony Iroha

All other music was sourced from Uppbeat.io
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