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

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   Long-term use of chemical hair relaxers by postmenopausal Black women is associated with an increased risk of ... There are products that are being marketed as safer alternatives to relaxers ...

3. Congresswomen press FDA on why a proposal to ban hair ...

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   Black women and women of other ethnicities have used chemical hair-straightening treatments for decades, and many of the relaxers, creams and keratin treatments contain formaldehyde — a chemical ...

4. Can using everyday hair care products be harmful to ... - AOL

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   “Results from our analysis in the Black Women’s Health Study showed that postmenopausal women who reported using hair relaxers more than twice a year or for more than five years had a greater ...

5. Hair straightening - Wikipedia

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   The Dominican blowout allows highly-textured and tightly-curled hair types to be straightened without the use of chemicals. It has become popular, particularly among African Americans, as an alternative to permanent hair straightening or as a method of straightening the hair between relaxers. [8]

6. Relaxer - Wikipedia

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   A relaxer is a type of lotion or cream generally used by people with tight curls or very curly hair which makes hair easier to straighten by chemically "relaxing" the natural curls. The active agent is usually a strong alkali , although some formulations are based on ammonium thioglycolate or formaldehyde .

7. Rio Hair Naturalizer System - Wikipedia

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   The Rio Hair Naturalizer System was a hair relaxer distributed by the World Rio Corporation Inc. It was available in two types; "Neutral", and one that claimed to have a "Color Enhancement Formula" that contained a black hair dye. [1] As a product designed for home use, it was promoted through infomercials in the early to mid-1990s.