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Exam Questions and Answers
Alkaline Wave - Ans:✔✔-Cold waves. Ph of 9.0-9.6. Use ammonium thioglycolate as reducing agent.
Acid Balanced Waves - Ans:✔✔-Process the fastest and at room temp. Ph of 7.0
Ammonium Thioglycolate - Ans:✔✔-Active ingredient or reducing agent in alkaline permanents.
What layer of the hair is responcible for holding the natural hair color? - Ans:✔✔-Cortex
What color is hair that has eumelanin? - Ans:✔✔-Brown
What kind of permanent waving solution would you use on hair that is course and resistant? - Ans:✔✔-
Highly alkaline waving solution
What is the most common reducing agent with no color or odor? - Ans:✔✔-Trioglycolic Acid
When would you shampoo the hair during a relaxer service? - Ans:✔✔-After the relaxer is rinsed from
the hair.
What relaxers are good for very curly hair? - Ans:✔✔-Lye-based and no-lye
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Sanitizing - Ans:✔✔-Reducing the number of disease causing germs on cleaned surfaces.
Disinfection - Ans:✔✔-Specific products that destroy some, but not all, organisms.
Infectious Disease - Ans:✔✔-Spreads from one person to another. Caused by pathogenic bacteria
Pathogenic - Ans:✔✔-Harmful microorganisms that can cause diseases when they enter the body.
Cocci - Ans:✔✔-Round shaped bacteria
Sprilla - Ans:✔✔-Spiral or corkscrew shaped bacteria that can cause syphilis
Bacilli - Ans:✔✔-Rod shaped bacteria that causes tetanus or tuberculosis.
Syaphylococci - Ans:✔✔-Pus forming bacteria that is found in pustles.
What conditions do bacteria grow in? - Ans:✔✔-Warm, dark, damp and dirty places.
What is the first step in infection control? - Ans:✔✔-Cleaning!
Multiuse - Ans:✔✔-Reusable items that can be cleaned, disinfected, and used on more than one person,
even if exposed to blood or bodily fluids.
Sodium Hypochlorite - Ans:✔✔-Household bleach. Effective disinfection.
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
Texas Cosmetology Written State Board
Exam Questions and Answers
Alkaline Wave - Ans:✔✔-Cold waves. Ph of 9.0-9.6. Use ammonium thioglycolate as reducing agent.
Acid Balanced Waves - Ans:✔✔-Process the fastest and at room temp. Ph of 7.0
Ammonium Thioglycolate - Ans:✔✔-Active ingredient or reducing agent in alkaline permanents.
What layer of the hair is responcible for holding the natural hair color? - Ans:✔✔-Cortex
What color is hair that has eumelanin? - Ans:✔✔-Brown
What kind of permanent waving solution would you use on hair that is course and resistant? - Ans:✔✔-
Highly alkaline waving solution
What is the most common reducing agent with no color or odor? - Ans:✔✔-Trioglycolic Acid
When would you shampoo the hair during a relaxer service? - Ans:✔✔-After the relaxer is rinsed from
the hair.
What relaxers are good for very curly hair? - Ans:✔✔-Lye-based and no-lye
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
Sanitizing - Ans:✔✔-Reducing the number of disease causing germs on cleaned surfaces.
Disinfection - Ans:✔✔-Specific products that destroy some, but not all, organisms.
Infectious Disease - Ans:✔✔-Spreads from one person to another. Caused by pathogenic bacteria
Pathogenic - Ans:✔✔-Harmful microorganisms that can cause diseases when they enter the body.
Cocci - Ans:✔✔-Round shaped bacteria
Sprilla - Ans:✔✔-Spiral or corkscrew shaped bacteria that can cause syphilis
Bacilli - Ans:✔✔-Rod shaped bacteria that causes tetanus or tuberculosis.
Syaphylococci - Ans:✔✔-Pus forming bacteria that is found in pustles.
What conditions do bacteria grow in? - Ans:✔✔-Warm, dark, damp and dirty places.
What is the first step in infection control? - Ans:✔✔-Cleaning!
Multiuse - Ans:✔✔-Reusable items that can be cleaned, disinfected, and used on more than one person,
even if exposed to blood or bodily fluids.
Sodium Hypochlorite - Ans:✔✔-Household bleach. Effective disinfection.
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