Scientific American

Hair Relaxers Will Be Safer without Formaldehyde, but It’s Just a Start

I was in fourth grade when I got my hair relaxed for the first time. My mom took me to a professional salon, and Game Boy in hand, I sat in the chair, nervous but excited. My mom and sometimes other ...
Scientific American

Hair Straighteners and Relaxers May Be Harmful to Health. Here’s How to Make Them Better

Few things demonstrate the beauty and versatility of Blackness better than Black hair. The variety of styles is almost innumerable: locs, cornrows, curls, afros, twists, braids, and beyond. Many Black ...
WFMY News2

Black women seek alternatives as chemical relaxers are linked to severe health risks

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If there was ever a place to embrace change, it would be a hair salon. As a hairstylist for almost 40 years, Karen Hill has had a chair-side view of the ever-evolving state of Black ...
The New York Times

A Shared Lived Experience Fueled an Investigation on Hair Relaxers

To report on the dangers of hair straightening products, one writer recalled her childhood — and that of other Black women. By Linda Villarosa Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and ...
The Grio

Reps. Pressley, Brown push FDA to finalize a bill to ban harmful chemical in hair relaxers

U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, and Nydia Velásquez, D-N.Y., are urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move swiftly on advancing an already proposed federal rule ...
NPR

The FDA moves to ban chemical hair straighteners containing formaldehyde

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks researcher Kimberly Bertrand about hair relaxers containing formaldehyde and moves by the FDA to ban them. People use hair relaxers for many reasons - for day-to-day ...