Jenny Mitchell, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division on November 2 alleging that a hair relaxer product gave her uterine cancer and endometriosis.
The 32-year-old Black Missouri woman contends that “phthalates and other endocrine disrupting chemicals” in the hair relaxer products caused her to develop the condition.
Reports have shown that although chemicals in relaxers are doing more damage than could be imagined, and though more and more women of colour are awakening to the dangers of relaxers, they may never stop using hair relaxers.
Read more…https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/12/black-women-hair-relaxers-chemicals-cancer-risk
