"Better" Litigation Through Chemistry: The Hair Relaxer Story
"Better Living Through Chemistry" once promised glamour and convenience, but in today's litigious climate, it's delivering more lawsuits.
A 2022 NIH study linking hair relaxers to uterine cancer is triggering a legal avalanche. However, the "science" beneath the lawsuits may be far less solid than plaintiffs' rhetoric suggests.
Better Living Through Chemistry
This aphorism, coined in 1935 by DuPont, has taken on a double meaning as chemical uses have mushroomed, conferring on our world both luxury and litigation.
- Beauty products, including hair relaxers and hair dyes, are regulated by the FDA, OSHA, and the EPA.
- These products are designed to achieve the ideal of straight and preferably flaxen hair, with many marketed to the Black population.
Author's summary: Chemicals in hair relaxers spark lawsuits.
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