The US FDA has proposed to ban formaldehyde in hair smoothing and hair straightening products. Experts on how it can raise risk of uterine cancer.
The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed to ban formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals in hair smoothing and hair straightening products, also called relaxers, reported NBC News.
According to several studies, formaldehyde, commonly used in medicines and cosmetics, is said to be highly toxic and is linked to many kinds of cancer including uterine cancer. Its repeated exposure can cause many skin and eye problems.
“It has been observed that women who use chemical hair straighteners having formaldehyde as an ingredient may have a higher risk of uterine cancer.
A ‘sister study’ that enrolled women asked them about their usage of hair products over the previous year, including hair dyes, straighteners and relaxers, and perms or body waves.
After a follow-up of little over a decade, incidence of uterine cancer in women who had reported using hair straightening products were almost twice as to those who did not. It has also been observed that Black women start using hair straightening or relaxer products more frequently and tend to initiate use at earlier ages as compared to other races and ethnicities making the black women more prone to uterine cancer.
It is estimated that 1.64% of women who never used hair straighteners would develop uterine cancer by the age of 70 years however the frequent users risk goes up to 4.05%. As a piece of advice please choose your beauty products with great care and after thorough research,” says Dr Sunny Jain, HOD and Sr Consultant Oncology, Marengo Asia Hospitals Faridabad.
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