WE MUST EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT HAIR RELAXERS!

Contamination with 1,4 dioxane is shockingly widespread.
It is found in 97% of hair relaxers

If you know me, you know this is a pet-peeve of mine! Women and men of all color (but majority of them are black women) put these gels and creams on their hair - sometimes for a single treatment, sometimes as a longstanding conditioner.

1,4 Dioxane is just ONE of the chemicals to worry about. Think of the hormone disruptors that are also found in hair products, especially those marketed to African American females. To me, this is a HUGE concern and we have a responsibility to get out there and educate people who use these products thinking that they are safe for themselves and their children.

They say there is NO Breast Cancer Link to 1,4 Dioxane & Black Women:
http://www.cosmeticsdesign.com/news/ng.asp?n=77004-wg-r-lax-rs
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=81432

So these following statistics are obsolete??
Should Breast Cancer be the ONLY concern for Black Women?

* African-Americans are more likely to develop cancer than any other racial/ethnic group in the United States.(5)
 
*African Americans are almost twice as likely to die of cancer than any other minority group, and 20% more likely than whites.(6)
 
* The frequency of pre-menopausal breast cancer in African-American women is twice the rate of Caucasians. Studies show that in most instances, that in African-American women, by age 40, the cancer has already spread.(7)

* Black women have the highest incidence of and mortality from colon and rectum cancer than any other ethnic or racial group.(8)
 
* Black women with ovarian carcinoma are at an increased risk of death compared with white women with the same disease.(9)

* Compared to non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks have more than twice the incidence of end-stage renal disease.(14)