Is Your Hair Straightener Dangerous?
What used to be an issue between a client and her stylist has become the subject of a Food and Drug Administration inquiry, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration warning and a product ban in Canada, not to mention a lawsuit brought by California’s attorney general.
That’s because laboratory tests revealed that several straightening solutions contain dangerously high levels of formaldehyde, a suspected carcinogen.
Now clients, salons and government regulators from Canada to Florida are asking: Is formaldehyde lurking in this treatment commonly known as a ‘Brazilian blowout?’ Are the fumes poisoning those in the room where hair is treated? And who’s in charge of deciding what’s safe?
Canada’s health department weighed in last month, declaring a ban on 11 hair-straightening products that failed its standards, including three solutions made by Delray Beach-based M&M International…continue hair article.
