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UPDATE (January 5, 2026): The future of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 's proposed ban on hair-straightening products ...

The topic of relaxers has become the topic of discussion at the Designer Beauty Clinic in north Charlotte. These conversations come after the United States Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to ban formaldehyde as an ingredient in chemical hair straighteners, also known as relaxers. Theresa Werner, MD, deputy director of Huntsman Cancer ...

Hair straighteners and hair smoothing products are often marketed for and used by Black women. But the Food and Drug Administration plans to ban hair straighteners that release formaldehyde gas — a ...

In my teens and twenties, I would spend up to an hour every couple of days using a hair straightener to manage frizz. After having my son, even my reliable decade-old flat iron hasn’t been able to ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks researcher Kimberly Bertrand about hair relaxers containing formaldehyde and moves by the FDA to ban them. People use hair relaxers for many reasons - for day-to-day ...

A growing number of case reports and studies indicate that keratin hair straightening products containing glyoxylic acid, ...

Regularly cleaning hair straighteners with a damp cloth is essential for preventing product buildup and removing bacteria. How often you need to clean them depends on factors such as frequency of use.