TIL hair smells bad when burned because keratin needs large amounts of the sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine for polymer crosslinking, which give it it's rigid properties en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Fantastic-Berry-737 t3_11xn6tn on March 21, 2023 at 5:06 PM in todayilearned 19 comments 399
droveby t1_jd46yqg wrote on March 21, 2023 at 6:38 PM Huh... I guess this also explains why my hair stinks after getting it the brazilian-straightening thing (which uses keratin) Permalink 2
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