Just For Me, Creme of Nature, Dark & Lovely: For Black women, these relaxer brands likely bring up memories of chemical aromas, pressed roots and a girlhood coiffure nostalgia. And while the ...

Japanese hair straightening, AKA "thermal reconditioning treatment," videos have been popping up across my social media timelines, but what is it exactly? The end results look similar to a relaxer, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If there was ever a place to embrace change, it would be a hair salon. As a hairstylist for almost 40 years, Karen Hill has had a chair-side view of the ever-evolving state of Black ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Black, Hispanic and mixed-race people often face restrictions on natural hairstyles at work and school, so they turn to chemical hair straighteners to help them achieve smooth ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Hairstyles rooted in culture, pride and identity are now causing health risks due to the extensions used to create them. For Black women especially, the beauty of braids, ...

Better Living Through Chemistry” once promised glamour and convenience — but in today’s litigious climate, it’s delivering ...

This article is part of Consumer Reports’ Beauty Justice series, which launched with our tests for chemicals and contaminants in synthetic braiding hair products and a campaign to get toxic chemicals ...

In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the ...

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A new study by the National Institutes of Health links chemical hair straighteners or relaxers to uterine cancer. In the study released this week ...