“Is It Safe Enough?” How to Think About Chemical Risk on Your Own Terms
If you’ve read this far, you’re not looking for someone to tell you formaldehyde-based keratin treatments are totally fine and you shouldn’t worry. You’ve done the reading. You know about formaldehyde, methylene glycol, the FDA warnings. You know there are
Safer Alternatives to Formaldehyde: What Works, and for Whom
By now you know the landscape. Full formaldehyde treatments that are honest about what’s in them: highly effective and powerful, manageable in the right environment with the right precautions; Formaldehyde-in-disguise treatments: the worst of both worlds — the risk without
A Ridiculously Simple Test For Exposing Deceptive Keratin Labels
In Post 1, we walked you through the labeling mess that turned “formaldehyde-free” into a marketing phrase rather than a promise. We ended with a question: if you can’t trust the label, what can you trust? Hair-maven Peter Abramov gave us