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2. What Black women should know about hair relaxers and ... - AOL

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   Researchers explain new data showing a link between hair relaxers and high rates of cancer and infertility in Black women. Several lawsuits have emerged after many have gotten sick.

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

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   Getting a relaxer at a young age was quite a common thing, but as is the case with many permanent chemical processes, relaxers can make hair more susceptible to damage and breakage, as it damages ...

4. Natural hair movement - Wikipedia

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   With the popularity of "going natural", hair care suppliers have seen a rapid decrease in the purchase of relaxers, the harsh chemical hair straightener. An industry that was once worth an estimated $774 million, relaxer sales have gone down 26% over the last five years, 2013 numbers report. [55] Relaxer sales have fallen to 38% between 2012 ...

5. Rio Hair Naturalizer System - Wikipedia

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   Rio Hair Naturalizer System. The Rio Hair Naturalizer System was a hair relaxer distributed by the World Rio Corporation Inc. It was available in two types; "Neutral", and one that claimed to have a "Color Enhancement Formula" that contained a black hair dye. [1] As a product designed for home use, it was promoted through infomercials in the ...

6. Relaxer - Wikipedia

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   Relaxer. A relaxer is a type of lotion or cream generally used by people with tight curls or very curly hair which makes hair easier to straighten by chemically "relaxing" the natural curls. The active agent is usually a strong alkali, although some formulations are based on ammonium thioglycolate or formaldehyde.

7. A rite of passage for many Black girls and women now raises ...

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   A hairdresser uses a comb to apply a cream relaxer in the hair (Kehinde Akinbo / Alamy) “In order to identify whether this is a cause, we would probably need to do a randomized clinical trial ...