Monday, February 20, 2012
Women's Reproductive Health and the Connection to Hair Relaxers
A Boston University study has now linked a connection between uterine fibroid tumors, early puberty, and hair relaxers. Scalp burns, permanent hair loss, and hair stripped of proteins have not been enough to convince millions of women that relaxers pose a risk. In fact, one of the local customers at the Beauty Bar Salon says, "Well by now if something were going to happen it would have happened".
Everything that we put on our bodies matters and how long it takes for us to see those effects is irrelevant. Sadly relaxers are among the many products that we come in contact with that have been linked to cancer causing ingredients.
The best that we can do is drastically reduce our contact with these chemicals and opt for all natural ones when we can. Sometimes even finding true all natural products is pretty hard. Our deodorant, our lipsticks, our food almost anything that you can think of has been under fire at one point or another for the harmful agents that they contain.
By no means am I on a mission to convert every woman to natural hair; to each is own. The evidence that relaxers are unhealthy is readily available to anyone who wants the knowledge and it is up to the reader to decide for themselves what is best for their hair.
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