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Women Allege That Using Hair Relaxers Gave Them Cancer
This article is part of Consumer Reports’ Beauty Justice series, which launched with our tests for chemicals and contaminants in synthetic braiding hair products and a campaign to get toxic chemicals out of them. Drugstore shelves and beauty salon supply rooms are bursting with products promising to straighten, strengthen, smooth, shine, curl, or otherwise tame women’s hair. Some of the…
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Best Hair Bonnets From Our Tests
Camille Briggs (that’s me) is a CR freelancer with a bob cut, chemically relaxed, and colored hair (I add extensions for color and fullness). My nightly hair routine includes adding rollers on top and then wrapping my hair around my head with a satin tie before putting a bonnet on to keep everything secure. Angela Lashbrook, a senior CR writer,…
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Synthetic Braiding Hair Test Results Detect Carcinogens and VOCs
Rogers recommends that before buying and using a new pack of synthetic braiding hair, shoppers should: Check for recalls. MedWatch is a good starting point (while our recent search didn’t reveal any recalls, they would be posted here). Consumers should also consult the manufacturers’ websites to see if there is additional information on the product. Read product labels carefully. There…
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Don’t Let Pet Hair Ruin Your Washer
You love your pets unconditionally. Why else would you tolerate their shedding all over your bed, carpets, blankets, and clothes? If your pet sheds, you probably do a lot of laundry—especially if your little pal is a double-coated breed like a shepherd, husky, or retriever; or a fluffy feline like a Maine coon or Persian. Removing pet hair is a…
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Best Pet Hair Remover Tools
Performance: If you can have only one pet hair remover tool in your cleaning toolbox, this is the one. The ChomChom was a favorite with my at-home evaluators and the best performing in our formal lab tests. What sets this tool apart is that it’s the only tool that gathers and picks up all of the pet hair it touches.…
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Quick hacks to get rid of pet hair
If you have any furry friends, you’ll probably be dealing with pet hair shedding on a daily basis. Be it long or short-haired dogs and cats, it’s inevitable to find fur embedded in carpets, furnishings and generally around the home. It isn’t any wonder why it can feel like a never-ending battle to banish pet hair. Luckily, there are some…
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RevAir Hair Dryer Review – Consumer Reports
After my daughter was born, I soon realized the struggle facing them: the maintenance. #LongHairDontCare is a lie. It’s difficult to take care of a lot of hair and keep it healthy and looking great. Weekly wash days with my daughter were always full of tearful agony—her tears and my agony because I did not want to deal with her…
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Best Vacuums for Pet Hair
To rate vacuums that excel at cleaning up pet hair, we devised a pet-hair lab test for full-sized upright and canister vacuums in which technicians take 5 grams of long, feathery fur from Maine Coon cats and scatter, stomp, and smash the hair into a medium-pile carpet. Then we make multiple passes with each vacuum to see how much it…
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Best Hair Steamer We Tried Was Quiet and Did Not Drip Hot Water
Enter hair steaming, a haircare technique that is experiencing renewed interest on TikTok and Instagram, and has long been a part of healthy hair routines for some, especially Black people caring for their natural curls. Unlike a lot of videos on those platforms, hair steaming is not just a fad. Alesha Wells, a licensed cosmetologist, hairstylist, and owner of Genesis…
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Which Is Better for Your Hair: Blow-Drying or Air-Drying?
And if you go to sleep with your hair wet, other factors can contribute to a headache. For example, a cold, wet pillow could cause brief awakenings that disturb sleep and prompt a migraine. What about hair damage? There’s little evidence that either air-drying or blow-drying is better for your hair. And there are advantages and disadvantages to both, says…
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