>if you get a rash, you
>rub cortisone into it &
>it makes it better, right?
>LSD can be placed on
>the skin and absorbed, making
>you high as hell...and those
>are just a couple of
>examples.
>
>like I said, I would have
>to do some more research
>before I accepted it as
>truth, but it IS possible
>the chemicals could be harmful.

Oh mos definitely the skin is absorbant, but relaxer isn't applied directly onto the skin like a cortisone...at least it's not supposed to be. So that's not a good example. And yes some gets on the scalp, hence the burns, but who would deliberately put relaxer directly on their scalp?