Santa Clara, CAThe US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in early January issued a warning: formaldehyde, a chemical in hair relaxers and hair straighteners, “presents an unreasonable risk of injury to human health”.... Read more »
Santa Clara, CAJust five months after a study published in 2021 showed a link between the use of hair straightener, women—and mostly Black women—diagnosed with uterine and ovarian cancers began filing hair... Read more »
Santa Clara, CADespite studies over the past decade determining that formaldehyde and other toxic chemicals in hair relaxers are linked to reproductive-health disorders, and despite consumers concerns since the late 2000s, and... Read more »
Santa Clara, CATwo lawmakers in March 2023 wrote a letter to the FDA, urging it to ban harmful chemicals in hair relaxers. Last month, those lawmakers sent another letter to the agency... Read more »