Today’s post comes to us from our colleague Charlie Domer of Wisconsin.
This is the second installment in our series on the dangers of hair-straightening products with formaldehyde.
For many of us, the word formaldehyde conjures up images of high school biology class, and glass jars full of preserved frogs. But for Molly Scrutton, a stylist from Portland, Oregan, it most likely calls to mind the sore throat and aching chest she felt after giving her clients the Brazilian Blowout hair treatment.
After investigating and learning that other stylists had suffered from similar symptoms, Scrutton reported it to local health officials. Since then, Brazilian Blowout has been found to contain over 10 times the amount of formaldehyde considered safe.
Turns out formaldehyde is pretty nasty stuff. Here’s why:
Formaldehyde does terrible things to the body.
Formaldehyde can irritate the eyes and nose, causing coughing and wheezing. It can cause allergic reactions of the skin, eyes and lungs, such as asthma-like breathing problems, skin rashes, and itching. Effects reported by users of formaldehyde-laced hair straightening products include eye disorders, nervous system disorders, respiratory tract problems, chest pain, vomiting and rash. If you have been exposed to a hair straightener and suffer from any of these symptoms, you should seek medical treatment immediately.
Sometimes the effects of formaldehyde exposure are irreversible or fatal.
When formaldehyde is sprayed into the eyes, it can cause blindness. It is also a known carcinogen, and has Continue reading
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