Hair Straightening Chemicals on a Fast Track to FDA Ban

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Around the world, the beauty industry is alive and thriving. Many women and men often use hair care goods, makeup, and other similar products. These are meant to enhance beauty, cover up perceived blemishes, or even change the look of something altogether.

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However, despite the appeal of all this, the importance of safety and wellness cannot be overstated. As much as beauty products have their appeal, using products with the wrong ingredients can be extremely detrimental.

Look no further than chemicals designed to straighten curly hair.

For quite some time, people viewed such straighteners as innocent tools for altering one’s hair texture. Although new developments indicate these chemicals are so toxic that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering an outright ban against them.

A closer look at the problems with chemical hair straighteners

Products used to press hair and chemical hair relaxers both seem to be on the chopping block. The danger associated with them pertains to their ingredients such as formaldehyde, glycol, and methylene.