Hair scare for African American Hair Products

[Sosa]

I'm not sure if this was posted before (but I did a search and didn't find it). Anyhoo...my aunt sent this to my email...thought I'd share it with y'all.
toodles!


Lifestyles Report...Hair scare By Debbie Norrell
At least two months ago WPXI contacted me to do an interview about ingredients in hair care products used by African­Americans possibly leading to breast cancer. I was selected because I am a 15­year breast cancer survivor.
Recently WAMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier freelance writer Allegra Battle did a story on this
same subject and it was a feature on the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these stories we still did not have a list of the products. Battle gave me the list that didn't make her feature during a recent visit I made to the WAMO studio's promoting the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. So many of my friends have seen the stories on television or read about this issue in the paper and they want to know which products to be concerned about.
However I wanted to give you more so I went to the Internet and looked for articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one entitled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines
Environmental Suspects (update Spring 2005).
The article stated, one of immediate research priorities of the new Center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in African­Americans under the age of 40 who have nearly twice as much breast cancer as do white women.
The center will work with Silent Spring Institute, a Massachusetts based cancer institute, to identify suspect contaminants and ingredients in hair care products and other personal products regularly used by African­American young women and their mothers.
More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in hair care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for higher cancer rates in this population. I've started to carry copies of the list in my purse but we're going to share it with you right here. The list simply says: The following is a list of products that have previously been found to contain hormones:
Placenta Shampoo
Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
Placenta revitalizing shampoo
Perm Repair with placenta
Proline Perm Repair with placenta
Hormone hair food Jojoba oil
Triple action super grow
Supreme Vita­Gro
Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
B & B Super Gro
Lekair natural Super Glo
Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E
Isoplus Hormone hair treatment with Quinine
Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
Supreme Vita­Gro with allantoin and estrogen
plus TEA­COCO
Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
Nu Skin body smoother
Nu Skin Enhancer
The majority of these products contain placental extract, placenta, hormones or estrogen.
As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Environmental Oncology,
part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and co­researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens, synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer.
Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not born, but made and the more hormones a woman is
exposed to in her lifetime, the greater her risk of breast cancer."
We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair and our bodies and demand that more information about our health is shared. Ladies and gentlemen beware.
(Email the columnist at debbienorrell.Com.)
Below is a link with regard to the research.
http://www.wpxi.com/health/4204594/detail.html

 

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

wow. I just bought some placenta hot oil treatment by queen helene.

 

[Mahalialee4]

THAT'S WHY I SHY AWAY FROM THE BLACK HAIR PRODUCTS ISLES LADIES!!! Since most of the companies are white owned, I do not know what ties or links they have to experimental laboratories etc. Just my honest concern and opinion. But the products they "produce for black ladies" to grow their hair, how effective has the "growth result" been and instead the grease stunts the growth. That is why I prefer to make my own stuff so I know exactly what I am putting in it. All this scientific terminology for people they assume speak "ebonics!" who live in the "ghetto!" Right.... think on .....bonjour.

 

[Nazarite27]

THAT'S WHY I SHY AWAY FROM THE BLACK HAIR PRODUCTS ISLES LADIES!!! Since most of the companies are white owned, I do not know what ties or links they have to experimental laboratories etc. Just my honest concern and opinion. But the products they "produce for black ladies" to grow their hair, how effective has the "growth result" been and instead the grease stunts the growth. That is why I prefer to make my own stuff so I know exactly what I am putting in it. All this scientific terminology for people they assume speak "ebonics!" who live in the "ghetto!" Right.... think on .....bonjour.

I so agree with you.

 

[tenjoy]

a couple years back UPN 9 News did something on this. But it was not talking about cancer, it was saying that those hormones was causing our young girl to develop faster or something like that. I cant remember it all but that was my reason for not buying anymore Queen Helene DC with Placenta. They actually pointed Queene Helene out in the story.

Our heads have tooooo many big open pores to be trying just anything.

 

[tenjoy]

On another note......A question about the stuff some of you wip up at home. How do you store these concoctions? Do you use preservatives? Even though we like au' naturale, without preservatives, it is a breeding group for bacteria. Jus t wanted to know.

 

[AmyInAtl]

That is just really sad, why are they putting this in our hair products? It's so sad.

I've used alot of queen helene hair products, because they are cheap.

I would like to start using items in a product/brand line. Like Elasta QP, Nexxus, the products ordinarily at the at a salon (when i can afford it).

It seems like the lower priced products are suspect.

 

[mesezi]

On another note......A question about the stuff some of you wip up at home. How do you store these concoctions? Do you use preservatives? Even though we like au' naturale, without preservatives, it is a breeding group for bacteria. Jus t wanted to know.

hmm..I suppose disposing of the concoctions as you would when you decide vegetables, or fruit, and such, are no longer in a healthy state. perhaps using natural oils would be the safest bet.

lipsticks/makeups breeds plenty of bacteria as well.

 

[Eisani]

There have been quite a few threads on this topic, I remember reading some. I don't know what search words were used but it may be found under breast cancer, placenta, hormones, etc. On a side note, a lot of the manufacturers (I'm sure not all) that use placenta in their products now remove the hormones. If you check the ingredients, it should say hormone-free placenta etc...the hormones are the source of trouble, not the placenta itself. Also, it seems that a lot are now using plant-derived placenta substitutes as well of course I'm now sure how effective they actually are. HTH

 

[Mahalialee4]

They program us with their: Ingredients:
"astoundinggrowth results" blah blah"exoticherbs"blah blah"african"blah blah "longerhair...silky...removes all signs of frizz...grow hair faster" blah blah "money back guarantee"...."!" new...new....new....long...hair....grow"... patentedformula....placenta....testimonials...herbs...african.....long....grow...long hair...grow...GROW GROW...LONG HAIR....blah blah, "fragrance" 50 percent more product, use six months guarantee..... all the right buzzwords included.....more growth...long....ingredients:
ch...ching!!!!!
"Now they have us all hypnotized and hysterical" (Aaron Neville)

 

[bzb1990]

THAT'S WHY I SHY AWAY FROM THE BLACK HAIR PRODUCTS ISLES LADIES!!! Since most of the companies are white owned, I do not know what ties or links they have to experimental laboratories etc. Just my honest concern and opinion. But the products they "produce for black ladies" to grow their hair, how effective has the "growth result" been and instead the grease stunts the growth. That is why I prefer to make my own stuff so I know exactly what I am putting in it. All this scientific terminology for people they assume speak "ebonics!" who live in the "ghetto!" Right.... think on .....bonjour.

Bumping this because it sounds possible. Corporations can be racist and evil.

ETA: in this post it highlights the disparity between b. Cancer rates in other ethnicities to emphasize the correlation (huge thanks to her for copy pasting it into the body of the post and not just linking bcuz the page has been deleted from their website): https://longhaircareforum.com/posts/978746/


An ingredient could seem ok but be contaminated with persistent pollutants and the remnants discarded during processing used.
Or less purified ingredients/processed to remove contaminants?

Or put a percentage of contaminated or otherwise bad batches with poor quality (which would normally be dumped) in containers alongside the normal batches and sold ?
It sounds possible after the things we have learned that were done historically the world over (and still are being done in countries ). Man..