Perm and Pregnancy

A lot of people ask us if we feel it´s safe to perm during pregnancy. The answer is yes, if by perm you mean relaxing in any way with any hydroxide based relaxer and not perming with rods using a thio based product. By their nature hydroxides are inorganic, meaning they don´t off gas or have volatile compounds in them so we feel they are safe to use during pregnancy, especially with our off scalp technique. Products containing thios´ or other volatile compounds on the other hand we usually don´t usually recommend at this time because they do off gas.