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Calm_Forever_2277 t1_isq1pla wrote

As a hairstylist, I can tell you that these straightening products (keratin treatments, brazillian blowouts) claim to be formaldehyde free. However, they contain GLYOXYLIC ACID. When this acid is heated to 450 dregrees, which the treatment requires a 450 degree iron to passes through the hair, it emits a chemical gas.

This chemical gas is formaldehyde.

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Jasonhardon t1_isqa93b wrote

Safer just to use a flat iron idk, maybe that’s just my two cents

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BurntToasters t1_isstk7y wrote

Read this as cast iron and thought i accidently dropped into a cooking thread

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fourthgradenothing22 t1_issjb79 wrote

This is helpful information. I’ve had keratin treatments in the past (fewer than 10), but also had breast cancer at 38 with no family history. Studies like this always catch my attention, but what you’ve just offered is even more interesting. My stylist always insisted that the salon was using the “safe” keratin treatments, yet the smell/feel/inhalation of fumes always concerned me.

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Calm_Forever_2277 t1_ist2cj7 wrote

Thank you! Most hairstylist don’t even know. They are being lied to and them continue to lie.

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trees202 t1_isr18v3 wrote

Sooo should I wear a mask while getting my Brazilian blowout?

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Calm_Forever_2277 t1_isr2dtu wrote

More like an industrial strength respirator.

Some salons make stylists and clients wear industrial strength respirators .They do it at Mark Garrison salon in Manhattan.

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French___toasted t1_isrd7xs wrote

Stop getting them. Your natural hair is beautiful and so are you.

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LightningEnex t1_isrpu6r wrote

God forbid people with curls want a different, uniform hairstyle/texture. Especially if you naturally got several of them to begin with.

Sincerely, a person with curly hair who is sick of seeing that sentence every time they look into straightening methods right beside a plethora of ads/people of interest with naturally straight hair rocking different curly/wavy styles.

Curly hair is work to manage, takes forever to detangle, brush and dry and in general takes a lot more effort to not look dissheveled. With straightened hair I can just brush for a minute, then throw it in a ponytail if I don't feel like caring about it and be done with it.

Curls are so fun and beautiful to look at until you're stuck with them 24/7 and have to look at all the upkeep necessary.

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BabySinister t1_isrs9fv wrote

You could just shave it off! No more worrying about your hair ever, no more washing, brushing, straightening, conditioning ever again. You could do it yourself in your own home and the equipment costs a couple of bucks.

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LightningEnex t1_isrt91x wrote

Yeah, thats what a lot of especially men with very curly hair do. That or dreads.

If bald, buzzcut or dreads aren't your cup of tea, then you only have the options of a lot of upkeep or straightening.

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BabySinister t1_isrw5tf wrote

I started shaving a decade ago and never looked back, hair is overrated and a hassle.

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MRSN4P t1_isun7ha wrote

Yes. This article talks about multiple compounds used as replacements for formaldehyde in order to put “formaldehyde free!” on the label. It links to a serious chemistry paper published in 1984 by Back and Yamato in the Canadian Journal of Chemistry showing that the major product of heating glyoxylic acid is formaldehyde.

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rawgreenpepper t1_issm16c wrote

So you know you are likely going to get cancer from your job

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