Cosmetics Industry To Disavow Hair Straighteners
http://www.enviroblog.org/2011/06/cosmetics-industry-to-disavow-hair-straighteners-1.html
http://www.enviroblog.org/2011/06/cosmetics-industry-to-disavow-hair-straighteners-1.html
"On June 28th, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review panel, a self-policing body created by the mainstream cosmetics industry in hopes of averting federal regulation, belatedly declared formaldehyde to be unsafe in "cosmetic products that will be heated." That's code for formaldehyde-based hair-straighteners, the best known of which is Brazilian Blowout. Salon workers use hot flatirons and blow dryers to force the chemical mixture to penetrate the hair, where it forms chemical bonds, allowing the hair to be reshaped stick-straight (which people are getting sick for)."
