Just For Me, Creme of Nature, Dark & Lovely: For Black women, these relaxer brands likely bring up memories of chemical aromas, pressed roots and a girlhood coiffure nostalgia. And while the ...

Japanese hair straightening, AKA "thermal reconditioning treatment," videos have been popping up across my social media timelines, but what is it exactly? The end results look similar to a relaxer, ...

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INDIANAPOLIS (CONSUMER REPORTS) — Concerns are growing over the safety of chemical hair relaxers as research suggests that heavy use may be linked to an increased risk of certain cancers. So, Consumer ...

This viewpoint is common among women nearing the end of their braided, bantu-knotted and picked rope styles lengthening their getting ready process to hours. It’s also a popular sentiment with those ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If there was ever a place to embrace change, it would be a hair salon. As a hairstylist for almost 40 years, Karen Hill has had a chair-side view of the ever-evolving state of Black ...

The FDA’s recent notice that it would move to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products comes more than a decade after researchers raised alarms about health risks. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images) ...

Relaxers are known for their ability to straighten and smooth out curly or kinky hair. Hair relaxers are chemical treatments that work by breaking down the protein bonds in your hair, making it ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Nearly 90%. That’s how many Black women have used hair relaxers at some point in their lives to chemically straighten their hair. For many, it’s something they started doing as ...

The 2000s "natural hair movement" was transformative. For me, I never knew what my natural hair really looked like until college, when I fully began wearing my curls and started seeing more natural ...

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Sheila Bush, a cosmetologist, was lounging in the recliner at her St. Louis-area home last winter when an advertisement from a law firm flashed up on her television screen, urging ...