Black women face social pressures to straighten their hair using chemical relaxers, despite growing evidence linking these products to breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers.

The conclusion was that some chemicals found in black women's hair products were linked to asthma and endocrine disruption. Relaxers have also been found to cause cancer. The Journal of the ...

The Georgia Supreme Court will determine the extent a person can claim prolonged use of hair relaxer products caused injuries, setting precedent for hundreds of pending cases.

Hair relaxers have been around for more than 100 years. In just a matter of minutes, these chemical straightening products can iron out curly hair. But now more than 100 lawsuits have been filed ...

Black women and women of other ethnicities ... developing uterine cancer in 2003 that she now blames on those products. Many companies that make chemical hair relaxers have responded to the ...