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Would you risk cancer for beautiful straight hair?

We do some crazy stuff for beauty. Injecting Botchulism, slathering bird poop on our faces (this is not a joke) and letting fish eat dead skin on our feet (again, totally serious). But that stuff probably wont kill us. Certain hair-straightening treatments on the other hand … just might.

A warning about Brazilian keratin salon treatments containing formaldehyde has been issued by the Professional Beauty Association.

Granted, while formaldehyde is most commonly used to, well, embalm the dearly departed, it's also in quite a few cosmetics -- but it's most dangerous when it's made into vapor, which is exactly what happens when you get your hair straightened (they put on chemicals ... then flat iron your hair).

That means dangerous formaldehyde fumes, known to cause cancer.

Eek, I'm out. There are plenty of safe ways to straighten curly hair. Or why not just embrace your curls? These celebrities do.

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  • MSBROWN's Avatar
    Posted by MSBROWN Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:33pm PST

    I totally agree that if you go out of your way to avoid cancer-causing chemicals, etc., you can still get cancer, so you should do the things that you enjoy. But I am also ALL FOR embracing your hair type. You only get one you ... so you -- and the world -- had better learn to appreciate it!

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  • Cheap Makeup Junkie's Avatar
    Posted by Cheap Makeup Junkie Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:28am PST

    Millions of people ingest carcinogens for pleasure.....why not some cancer causing beauty treatments

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  • Anonymous's Avatar
    Posted by Anonymous Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:13am PST

    Did you mean "botulism"?

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  • Ririn's Avatar
    Posted by Ririn Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:36am PST

    Yeah...i agree with you....i think people who do this stupid think is people who never satisfied with what they already have..

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  • KharaK's Avatar
    Posted by KharaK Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:57am PST

    Everything causes cancer. This one has a good fact tho. Embalming fluid is quite dangerous. It is messing up your body if you breathe it in. Just watch some of these junkies on the "dippers" today.

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  • Habanero♥™'s Avatar
    Posted by Habanero♥™ Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:02am PST

    MissK: That's so funny.

    To find out which products have the most harmful chemicals:

    wwwewg.org Then go to the right side to cosmetic data base and type in the product. I think it is rated 1-9

    Not everything is cancer causing. However since I have been born, there have been 700,000 new products they we have at our disposal that are quite dangerous.

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  • Vikrant's Avatar
    Posted by Vikrant Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:16am PST

    Well i would like to live a better life i.e. i have seen many people diagnosed with cancer and the life they live is terrible . The amount of Medicines they take is just insane . So i will prefer a simple casual way of life rather than the Experimented types .. Another way of looking at this is that some researches results are negligible . So its personal choice ..

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  • Rowdygirl's Avatar
    Posted by Rowdygirl Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:35am PST

    I guess you'll make a great looking corpse with this stuff

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  • mommaofsun's Avatar
    Posted by mommaofsun Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:47am PST

    Not me. I'd rather be bald than to risk getting cancer.

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  • Yolanda's Avatar
    Posted by Yolanda Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:21am PST

    How does this effect African American hair? Im curious because we get are hair relaxed every 6-8 weeks and have been for years why has this only come up now.

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