Hair Relaxer

For years, researchers have been investigating a link between chemical hair relaxers and an increased risk of cancer. In 2022, a landmark study found that women who often used hair relaxers like Dark & Lovely and Creme of Nature could be over TWICE as likely to develop uterine cancer. Since then, thousands of women with […]

In September 2025, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) published a new study linking the use of chemical hair relaxers to an increased risk of thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma—a common type of blood cancer. To reach these findings, researchers analyzed data obtained from the Sister Study, a nationwide cancer research

The FDA schedules its proposed rule for April 2024 In 2022, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) found that regularly using chemical hair relaxers could more than double a woman’s risk of developing uterine cancer. One year later, the Black Women’s Health Study at Boston University published its own research linking hair relaxers

According to the findings of the Sister Study, run by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), women who regularly use no-lye hair relaxers at home or get professional relaxer treatments may be over TWICE as likely to develop uterine cancer compared to women who don’t use them. But how could hair relaxers cause

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signaled that it would soon announce a proposal that would ban formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from being used in hair relaxer products sold in the United States. This news arrives not long after the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) published a study linking regular use of hair relaxers to

Just one year after the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) published the first study connecting hair relaxer use to uterine cancer, Black Women’s Health Study at Boston University released its own study connecting hair relaxer products to uterine cancer. The study reported that women who regularly used hair relaxers, especially older women, were more

Did you know that using hair relaxers could double your risk of developing uterine cancer? A 2022 study by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) has linked many well-known hair relaxer products to an increased risk of developing uterine cancer. Frequent users are more than twice as likely to develop the disease compared to non-users.