Hair • Beauty • Culture

Hair relaxers and fibroids: two words you probably never thought you’d hear in the same sentence. At least not until a 2012 study surfaced showing a small link between the two, which has recently gained renewed media attention. As the natural beauty care market has heated up over the past few years, many people have used scare tactics to generate attention, or to coerce women into changing their traditional beauty care regimens for various purposes. While many doomsday tales of using “non-natural” products are blown out of proportion, some valid (and usually less severe) concerns have been raised. The study...