I know what you’re thinking: At-home relaxer kits are for amateurs, especially kitchen-beauticians who think they know it all. But, in all honesty, applying relaxers is about technique and having the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a ban on products containing formaldehyde. This is a chemical commonly found in hair straightening products. According to the ...

Danielle Ward Mason started using hair relaxer when she was eight years old. "When I was a child, I always wanted to engage in things that were active; I wanted to be a cheerleader. I wanted to swim.

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...

In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Pensacola law firm Alystock, Witkin, Kreis and Overholtz are representing more than a dozen women in a lawsuit against L’Oreal, Godrej and Dabur after new medical studies say hair ...

Four Georgia Black women filed separate lawsuits against major chemical hair relaxer manufacturers after exposure to the products was linked to cancer and uterine fibroids. A study published in the ...

Georgians who claim they were seriously injured by prolonged use of chemical hair straighteners were granted a win Wednesday by the Georgia Supreme Court, but it came with a warning. Georgians who ...

The Georgia Supreme Court is considering a pivotal case that could determine the fate of hundreds of product liability lawsuits involving chemical hair relaxers in the state. The issue is whether the ...