FDA to Ban Formaldehyde from Hair-Straightening Products – IOTW Report

FDA to Ban Formaldehyde from Hair-Straightening Products

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In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair-straightening products.

The move comes at a time of rising alarm among researchers over the health effects of hair straighteners, products widely used by and heavily marketed to Black women. But advocates and scientists say the proposed new regulation would do far too little, in addition to being far too late. More

24 Comments on FDA to Ban Formaldehyde from Hair-Straightening Products

  1. Racist beauty standards have long compelled girls and women with kinky hair to straighten it. Between 84% and 95% of Black women in the U.S. have reported using relaxers, studies show.”

    I really have so much faith in the honesty of articles like these and the parties they quote and interview

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  2. And another thing, I’ve never tried to make my hair kinky, or have dreadlocks. And it’s not because I didn’t want to infringe on another culture. It’s because I didn’t want to because that’s not who I was. Why do some people have a need to be something they are not? Be yourself and be proud. Trans anyone? Damn I’m sick of this shit!

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  3. Look, there it is! “Hair Care Products”, right there in the preamble, between “Secure Domestic Tranquility” and “Provide For The Common Defense”!

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  4. Marco told me about formalin, except he called fubblehigh.

    In his defense he said to never do it.

    “You mean formaldehyde?”

    “Some shit like that, fubblehide, I don’t know…”

    And then he told a horrific story about crossing a road.

    Marco is still with us, and has become a man.

    In the immortal words of Marco, “Fuck you, dawg!”

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  5. Opportunity for Big Pharma to market a new drug, taken systemically, to straighten nappy hair.

    As long as they rapidly mumble the side effects, which might include sudden death, and offer to help make this new drug affordable to all the peeps… we good, right?!

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  6. Just being around or smelling formaldehyde gives me extremely, excruciating headaches. And I hate it when new mattresses smell like the stuff for quite a while. I’ve had to return at least one mattress because the smell of the formaldehyde wouldn’t go away.

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