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Hair is soft due to the disulfide bonds in the alpha keratin (a protein) in hair. Too many disulfide bonds and you have a rigid structure like fingernails but a few disulfide bonds will give a soft flexible and stretchy fiber. The sulfur in hair and fingernails is also why they smell so bad when burned.

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