What Are Tourmaline Plates?
One of the most recent products to hit hair care appliances are flat irons featuring tourmaline crystal. These flat irons have ceramic plates infused with tourmaline crystal powder and are called tourmaline plates. The crystal helps style hair faster because the crystals heat up quicker because of their negative ion output. Positive ions leaves hair curly and frizzy which is not desirable if you are creating a super-straight hairstyle. Does this Spark an idea?
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Tourmaline Crystal
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Tourmaline is the designated gem for those born in October. It comes in a variety of colors including black, green, pink, red, yellow and blue. It is found in Brazil, Russia, Burma, Afghanistan and the Malagasy Republic as well as the United States. The gem is costly, some are worth $10,000 per carat.
Metaphysical and Scientific Properties of Tourmaline
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Tourmaline comes in various colors and can be crushed to be added to various beauty products. According to MineralMiners.com, the metaphysical properties of tourmaline include the ability to boost your self-confidence and enhance physical abilities. Neutralization of negative energy is another metaphysical ability of tourmaline. In the scientific world, tourmaline produces an electric charge when heated and, in some cases, when pressure is placed at one end of the crystal. It has also been found that an electric charge will be positive at one end of the crystal while the other end has a negative charge.
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Creating the Tourmaline Plates
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The Tourmaline crystal must be crushed in order to be infused with the ceramic being made into the flat iron. This allows the properties of the gem stone to be spread throughout the ceramic of the hair straightening plate.
What Tourmaline Does for Hair
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Tourmaline allows the ceramic plates to heat faster, requiring less time to style the hair and creating less heat damage. Because of the tourmaline's ability to give out negative ions, the hair's cuticle closes faster and prevents the heat damage that is causes by ceramic flat irons. The gemstone particles allow the plates to leave hair in a silky state that is less likely to go frizzy, while maintaining great shine.
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