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  2. Return of the relaxer? Why some Black women are ... - AOL

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    The "relaxers are back" hashtag on TikTok has over 4 million views, and there is no shortage of content featuring Black women relaxing their hair either at home or in a salon. "The past year, I ...

  3. Hair straightening - Wikipedia

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    Relaxers can contain carcinogens such as formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, and other endocrine-disrupting compounds, [12] according to National Institutes of Health studies. The compounds can mimic the body's hormones, and studies have found them to be linked to breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers.

  4. Relaxer - Wikipedia

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    The scalp can suffer severe chemical burns if over exposed to lye or no-lye relaxers. A lye relaxer consists of sodium hydroxide (also known as NaOH or lye) mixed with water, petroleum jelly, mineral oil, and emulsifiers to create a creamy consistency. On application, the caustic "lye cream" permeates the protein structure of the hair and ...

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

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    This latest study — which asked 45,000 women without a prior history of cancer and with an intact uterus about their past use of chemical hair relaxers and then followed them for up to 22 years ...

  6. Rio Hair Naturalizer System - Wikipedia

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    January 24, 1995 an investigator with FDA's San Francisco district office went to Addressing and Mailing to inspect the firm and found more than 8,000 cases of the Rio hair relaxers, worth about $500,000 in retail value. FDA notified the State of Nevada Division of Health, which, in turn, embargoed the products, thus preventing their sale.

  7. Conk - Wikipedia

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    Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.