Brazilian Blowout Hair-Straightening Product Under Fire from GMA

[diadall]

This was on GMA this morning

Brazilian Blowout Hair Straightening Samples Contain Formaldehyde - ABC News

 

[keelioness]

Bumping cuz this is a good post

 

[westNDNbeauty]

There ya have it!

Thanks for this! I am soooo gonna stick to my method for straight hair. The risk isn't worth it with all of these dishonest companies out there.


Did you all notice at the end Garnier said that Blow Out product they have that is supposed to resemble BKT is not supposed to be used in Black people's textured hair?

 

[LaFemmeNaturelle]

Why are you surprised that they wouldn't promote it for afro-textured hair? Of course they can't promise us anything other than any other good serums and heat protectants. The question is why did they have to specifically say "african american hair" whatever that is. Could've left it at very curly....

 

[diadall]

I loved how the product is not for "curly" hair and they pointed out that the hair on the box was curly.

 

[WyrdWay]

Sweet I'm gonna post that PSA at work. I knew it had formaldehyde in it, and I knew that was bad it makes us sick but I didn't know that OSHA had regulations like that for it! we make interior trim parts for cars, and some of the insulation has it in there, we have to melt it on the the plastic parts...every 45 seconds up to 600 times in an 8hour period sometimes 10 hours... We were getting coughs and i was having nose bleeds. its bad enough they don't have vents over our plastic presses... which spew plastic fumes.... dark grey smoke all day, even though the warnings on the boxes of plastic say, that each press should have a vent above it. HR said it would cost too much to turn on the ventilation system.

sorry about the rant and typos, I spilled coke all over my laptop... and the keys are screwy

 

[westNDNbeauty]

Why are you surprised that they wouldn't promote it for afro-textured hair? Of course they can't promise us anything other than any other good serums and heat protectants. The question is why did they have to specifically say "african american hair" whatever that is. Could've left it at very curly....

Not surprised. Just making a point. Esp since there is a thread here about it where people are wasting money and time testing it out.

 

[nappystorm]

Thanks for posting OP

 

[jamaica68]

Not surprising at all, some companies will do anything to make a buck.

 

[Simply_elle]

The Dominican blow out ain't looking so bad about now...

I'm liking how garnier just threw us colored folks under a bus....they just lost a customer...