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Toxic Hair Care Products for African-American Women Are Changing [1]

When Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line racked up a reported $100 million in sales in its first forty days on the market, it brought attention to a major trend in the beauty industry: the focus on women of color. But many hair and beauty products, especially those marketed to African-American women, still contain potentially toxic ingredients. Meet some of the women working to change that."

Julie Grant reports for Alllegheny Front August 31, 2018. [2]

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [4]
Environmental Health [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Public [7]
Source: Allegheny Front [2], 09/05/2018
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/toxic-hair-care-products-african-american-women-are-changing [2] https://www.alleghenyfront.org/many-hair-care-products-for-african-american-women-are-toxic-thats-changing/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81