If you are a Black woman who has purchased Indian remy hair over the years, you may have noticed how the quality of the hair has drastically gone down. In the video, she explains how the Chinese invasion into the Black hair market has greatly contributed to this decline. Indi Remi is the latest Chinese creation that is not even real hair at all.
The following is from jacebeauty.com:
“Unfortunately, what most hair manufacturers do is take this valuable remy hair, throw it in a large vat along with animal hair, and acid wash it. This is incredibly damaging to the natural hair fiber. After this process, the human and animal hair is added to some synthetic fibers and processed to make the Yaki straight, French refined, Yaki body wave and other beauty supply hair we all have purchased. The animal and synthetic fiber is added to the human hair (making the human hair stretch further). The hair is then coated with a type of silicone layer which makes the hair soft and shiny. This is a mandatory step because, now that the hair has been all mixed up in the acid bath, it is no longer laying root to tip. When the cuticles lay opposite each other, it causes friction and they tangle. That is why after a few washes of beauty supply hair the silicone layer is washed off and the hair begins to tangle, stick out at the base of your neck and look unnatural.
This process is allowed to continue because the FDA has set the guidelines for hair extensions. In order to label a package 100% Human Hair, at least 10% of the package must be 100% human hair. In other words, it’s like buying fruit punch labeled ‘made with real fruit juice’. Real fruit juice is in it; but so are a lot of other things as well.”
