Are Hair Straightening Chemicals Giving You Cancer?
Why you probably don’t need to worry about hair straighteners and uterine cancer
As a bald man, it is hard to wax lyrical about the wonders of chemical hair straighteners. While I once had a ponytail, in the days before male-pattern baldness made my dome shiny, I have long since lapsed into a general disinterest in hair products generally.
That being said, a lot of people use chemical hair straighteners, because it’s far less effort than ironing your head every day or two. Perhaps more expensive, but you save a lot of time — I did straighten my hair using an iron back when I had it, and it was a very tedious process.
Which makes the news, reported around the world, that hair straighteners may cause uterine cancer really quite worrying. Given that these products are commonly used, and mostly by women, it’s something of an issue that they might be doubling people’s risk of getting quite a nasty disease.
Of course, since I’m writing about the topic you probably already know: it’s far more complicated than you’ve heard. Is it possible that chemical straighteners…
