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2. Black Women Say Products for Black Hair Are Dangerously Toxic

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   No Lye relaxers: a chemical lotion or cream that breaks down the hair’s natural bonds by using calcium hydroxide, an odorless white powder used to treat sewage and in mortar, which is used for ...

3. Return of the relaxer? Why some Black women are ... - AOL

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   The "relaxers are back" hashtag on TikTok has over 4 million views, and there is no shortage of content featuring Black women relaxing their hair either at home or in a salon. "The past year, I ...

4. Chemical hair relaxers carry an increased risk of uterine ...

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   This latest study — which asked 45,000 women without a prior history of cancer and with an intact uterus about their past use of chemical hair relaxers and then followed them for up to 22 years ...

5. Hair straightening - Wikipedia

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   soft, silky, shiny, easy to manage. Lasts 2-6 months. silky straight hair. Permanent. soft, straight, easy to manage. Permanent. suitable for all hair types, damaged and previously treated hair that has not been treated with chemicals before; loose to medium curls coarse, tight curls safety concerns emits gases, not recommended while pregnant

6. Relaxer - Wikipedia

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   The scalp can suffer severe chemical burns if over exposed to lye or no-lye relaxers. A lye relaxer consists of sodium hydroxide (also known as NaOH or lye) mixed with water, petroleum jelly, mineral oil, and emulsifiers to create a creamy consistency. On application, the caustic "lye cream" permeates the protein structure of the hair and ...

7. Conk - Wikipedia

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   Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.