According to recent studies, uterine cancer is on the rise. Women who regularly use hair relaxer products are more likely to develop uterine and ovarian cancer than those who don’t, according to a recent study from the National Institutes of Health. Up to 90% of Black women in the U.S. have used hair relaxer or straightener products. The NIH data indicates that Black women are twice as likely to get uterine cancer than white women.

ProtectUS Law believes that the cosmetics companies have known about the potential dangers to women posed by chemicals in their hair relaxer products, including carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting phthalates. Yet they have failed to remove those chemicals from their hair relaxer products or even warn consumers of the risks. Instead, the industry is putting millions of women at risk to fuel profits — even touting their hair relaxer products as safe and natural. Worse, the women targeted for these products are primarily Black women and other women of color, and the products themselves promote notions of beauty that are steeped in racial stigmatization of natural hair.

If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with ovarian, uterine or endometrial cancer and regularly used hair relaxer products, the ProtectUS Law team would like to evaluate your possible case against the cosmetic companies and will represent you at no cost. We are fighting to bring big business to justice for selling unsafe hair relaxer products.