Black hair stylists say such products have fallen out of favor, especially among younger generations.
Britney Spears reveals why she shaved head in 2007 that led to 13-year conservatorshipThe Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on certain hair-straightening chemicals that have been used by black women for years and that research shows may increase the risk of uterine cancer.
“Relaxers have taken an extreme decline … as we became more knowledgeable about the effects of the relaxer on your hair and what it can do to your hair,” said Kayleigh Butler, a hair stylist in Atlanta who remembers getting relaxers when she was 5 years old. She added, “I think people just wanted to move away from that and live a healthier lifestyle.” was recently added to its regulatory agenda.
“Regardless of how we wear our hair, we should be allowed to show up in the world without putting our health at risk,” she said. reminding people that no action has been taken yet and that the agency plans to work with and encourage the cosmetics industry to develop alternative straightening products. in the journal Environmental Research, researchers followed nearly 45,000 black women for up to 22 years, the majority of them moderate or heavy users of relaxers.
Earlier this year, US Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Shontel Brown of Ohio, above, asked the FDA to investigate chemical hair straighteners.“I think consideration of endocrine disrupters like phthalates and parabens would be important, and heavy metals, too,” she said. “Getting rid of formaldehyde in these products certainly is a good thing, but … I don’t know that it renders those products completely safe.
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