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US FDA Must Act to Protect Salon Workers from Formaldehyde


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Over ten years ago it was discovered that some keratin hair straightening treatments used by professional salon workers contain high levels of formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen and is released when the product is heated, per instructions, with a flat iron. 

As a result, salon workers have suffered and continue to suffer from health effects like difficulty breathing, bloody noses, headaches, rashes, chronic sinus and lung infections, and more. 

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