Rinsing out relaxers

What happened? 

I ended up heating up water on the stove and using that to rinse and then finishing the rinsing with room temperature water from the tap.

The strangeness didnt happen immediately..... Why? I dont know.

But my hair has become less moisturized, brittle and the color is redder than before. I was told that lukewarm is the best to use. The cold water is supposed to make the lye react in a coating like way. That's why they never used cold water. But i had no choice, i was going to get overprocessed.

The strangeness didnt happen immediately..... Why? I dont know.

But my hair has become less moisturized, brittle and the color is redder than before. I was told that lukewarm is the best to use. The cold water is supposed to make the lye react in a coating like way. That's why they never used cold water. But i had no choice, i was going to get overprocessed.

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its because cold water seals the hair cuticle up, so when you rinse out the relaxer with cold water you can possibly trap some relaxer in the hairs and it can cause the hair to trap relaxer inside of it.

warm water keeps the cuticles open and the relaxer can rinse out better

Don't worry I didn't mess up my hair. I heated up the water because I know when I'm washing stuff off of my hands or something it's easier to wash with warm water and cold makes stuff like shea butter get thick and hard so I didn't want it to make the relaxer get hard or anything.

I was always told that you should wash out your relaxer with very warm water and the conditioner should be washed out with cold water.  I've always done this.

I hear you mysweetevie, I had a hairdresser rinse my relaxer out with cold water and my hair came out really funky and stringy.  It took a loooonnnng time for my hair to get back to normal.