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Thank you gentlemen. Always appreciate you.

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thank you @pharmaspain

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@David08848, while I appreciate your comment, I can assure the “curliest” hair on a Causcasion person’s head will never be as kinky as someone of African descent. And yes! I don’t want to create a product for everyone. I specifically want to create a product for African American hair with type 4c hair(The kinkest and driest of them all.)

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Gentleman,

I appreciate all of your responses. Mr. Belassi- chemistry is not my thing! I was horrible at in high school. However, I think that, unfortunately my race has been only conditioned to follow certain career paths and this is why there is a lack of these professionals.  I will be honest and say until I started my own business I never-ever knew that cosmetic chemistry even existed! Now I am a woman who has her Master’s in Mass Communication and have worked in corporate America for decades. I also use hair care products and spend major money on not only my hair, but my skin as well. Not once did I ever even stop to think about the potential in revenue from this industry until recently.  I do know that since the shift of our hair preference has been made to natural from relaxed you are starting to see more and more African American’s creating products for our hair and skin. This is a shift that is exciting for me as a Black woman and has inspired me to understand and even create products for my “people” as well. 

To Mark, 

Your response seemed to be completely fueled by anger, so I won’t respond to your thoughts. However, I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to address my concern.

Mr. Perry, 

You speak very eloquently and I appreciate you and your opinion.

I will continue to do as you all have implied and “spend money” on what I am looking for since it is not available to me for free. I will also continue to use this site as a point of reference to my standard questions about chemicals,processes and procedures.

I hope you all have a great night, and thank you again for taking the time to answer my question.

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Bob, thank you for your comment. I absolutely appreciate all the information out here for anyone to use. I also understand that you all do this just because you have a love for the science an am grateful. 

With that being said just because you’re giving away free “vanilla” ice cream doesn’t mean that those who like “chocolate” should just sit down and shut up. That’s actually a very entitled and privileged way of thinking. Sort of like…” Sure women don’t get paid as much as men, but at least they’re getting paid!” It’s kind of off putting. However- I understand what you were trying to say. I understand life isn’t fair, but there are countless free resources for those with an interest in European products, but anything other than that you’ll have to pay for? hmmm, that kinda sucks. But again I understand what you are saying. I will continue to do my research as you suggested. I will not host a pity party over things either. I do believe I have the right to express my feelings about something that seems to be so lop-sided. Perry was kind enough to direct me to someone who might be able to assist me.  You guys are great and I admire you all. I wish I was as smart about science as you are! 

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Perry,

Thank you for your response. Those are very sad statistics especially when, after researching I know that Black women spend a great deal of money on hair care. i have attached a link to some interesting facts about the spending power of black women.

 www.yahoo.com/beauty/how-the-beauty-industry-has-failed-black-women-170156718.html