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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…