It can damage your skin.
Maintaining the pH of personal care products is important to ensure that they are gentle and non-irritating to the skin. The skin has a natural pH level, and using products with a similar pH helps to maintain the skin's protective barrier. Products with the wrong pH can disrupt the skin's balance, leading to issues such as dryness, sensitivity, or breakouts.
burning melting blistering of the skin where the compounds hit.
Sodium Hydroxide or NaOH is a highly basic compound. On the pH scale it has a pH of 14.
It's talking about the pH of the shampoo itself. You shampoo's pH should be around 5-7, which is the pH of your skin (which is the middle of the pH scale). Acidic and Alkaline are the opposite ends of the pH scale, when it says Non alkaline shampoo, it means it's not high on the pH scale so it won't damage the cuticle at all. See relaxers are real high in Alkalinity
the pH scale
the pH
The highest number on the pH scale is 14. The pH scale goes from 0 to 14.
strawberries are at 3.5 on the pH scale
The Ph scale does not have colours.
The scale that chemists use to describe the concentration of hydronium ions in a solution is know as the pH Scale
A pH of 0 is the most acidic on the pH scale.