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DeeDeeNY

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1. Formaldehyde is also present in hair straighteners

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 04:57 AM

Aug 2022

I discovered this the hard way a few years back when I had a Brazilian hair straightening and developed contact dermatitis and also lost hair. The straightening product containing the formaldehyde is called keratin and is usually labeled as “formaldehyde-free”, but that is deceptive. Technically it doesn’t contain formaldehyde but it’s actually just a formaldehyde derivative with the same basic elements. Very scary.

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I was recently appalled to learn that many shampoos contain formaldehyde-releasing additives. [View all] eppur_se_muova Aug 2022 OP

Formaldehyde is also present in hair straighteners DeeDeeNY Aug 2022 #1

Johnson & Johnson takes a once trusted name and pounds it into the ground again & again. Joinfortmill Aug 2022 #2

You get what you pay for, gab13by13 Aug 2022 #3

Thank you for posting! Back in college, I remember being highly sensitive to formalin, a Ziggysmom Aug 2022 #4

well, it is, technically, a by-product. mopinko Aug 2022 #5