Black Women Say Products for Black Hair Are Dangerously Toxic—Why Are We Still Not Listening?
Chemicals found in personal-care products, the environment, food sources, and manufactured products that disrupt the hormonal system by either mimicking hormones or blocking the body’s natural hormones from doing their job. EDCs may have adverse health impacts on one’s body including links to altering sperm quality, early puberty, neurological and physical disorders, and certain cancers. Some common EDCs are phthalates, parabens, BPA, and lead.
Groover started working in the research and development field in 1997. She still worked part-time as a hairstylist, but now she had an inside look into the formulas of relaxers and discovered that one of the ingredients in many no-lye relaxers, a popular form of relaxer commonly promoted as a safer alternative to lye relaxers, was calcium hydroxide. “The same chemical, along with potassium thioglycolate, is an active ingredient in Nair, which is a hair remover,” she says. “Well, duh.
The FDA regulates cosmetics through post-market enforcement, i.e. the FDA does not approve cosmetics or their ingredients before they are sold on the market. The only exception to this rule is color additives. For cosmetics, the FDA does not have the authority under the FFDCA to order a recall but can request that a company recall a product voluntarily. The FFDCA prohibits the adulteration and misbranding of cosmetics,” Boyd says.
Your next question: why hasn’t Congress changed the law? A legislative package requiring safer beauty products and more FDA regulation has been introduced to Congress, but it can take months, maybe a few years, before the bill becomes official. All of these creams and lotions are relatively different except each has one common denominator: fragrance.
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