Rep. Shontel Brown has introduced the Health & Endocrine Research on Personal Care Products for Women, or HER Act, to fund research into the connection between personal care products marketed to Black and Latino women and reproductive health issues, and to ban hair relaxers and chemical straighteners that contain formaldehyde.
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FDA Proposes New Ban on Chemicals in Relaxers
By Alexa Spencer Originally appeared in Word in Black The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a ban on hair-straightening and smoothing products that contain cancer-causing chemicals. Black women, who […]