Black Woman Sues L'Oreal, Claims Chemical Hair Straightening Products Are Linked To Her Cancer
- Posted on 03 November, 2022
- Hair Care
- By Anonymous
A study found that women who reported frequent use of hair straightening/relaxing products were more than twice as likely to go on to develop uterine cancer compared to those who did not use the products.
Uterine cancer is relatively rare and accounts for about 7-percent of all new cancer cases among women. It's the most common cancer of the female reproductive system, and so far this year, there are an estimated 65,950 estimated new cases.
Studies show uterine cancer incidence rates among Black women have risen in the United States.
Attorneys Ben Crump and Diandra "Fu" Debrosse Zimmermann are suing L'Oréal and other companies on behalf of several women whose product use may have led to their diagnosis.
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A study found that women who've reported frequent use of hair straightening. Relaxing products were more than twice as likely to go on to develop uterine cancer compared to those who did not use the products. Uterine cancer is relatively rare and accounts for about seven percent of all new cancer cases among women. It'S the most common cancer of the female reproductive system, and so for this year, they're an estimated 65 950 new cases. Studies show uterine cancer incidence rates among black women. Have risen in the United States, a black woman is actually suing L'Oreal, saying that it is their hair care products that caused her cancer. Joining us now is Deandra de Bros Zimmerman uh this, of course, the suing L'Oreal and other companies on behalf of several women whose products use may have led to their diagnosis. Glad to have you on the show how you doing. Thank you I'm doing well thanks for having me so when we it's very interesting, I remember uh, being in um Los Angeles, for the image Awards, and that was an event. Dick Gregory was being honored and Dick Gregor was going off about um, hair straightening products causing black women to get sick, and I was it was interesting because we were sitting there and there were folks who were rolling their eyes. They were like yeah. He he go again with all his conspiracy theories uh, but we start thinking about uh the Johnson Johnson uh powder lawsuit they lost. We started thinking about uh other lawsuits. So when I saw uh this was when I saw this study and I went that was Dick. Go again right again and now, of course, now having this lawsuit and and the thing about this, that's all so crazy that this is also tied to racism, because black women were forced to straighten their hair in order to work in various places. Absolutely so so. Lots of thoughts um, I think, to your point about talk powder when we talk about products and I'm primarily a product lawyer and an environmental lawyer with a child 11 we're talking about targeted marketing towards black and brown folks and, as you said, Roland coming out of Slavery and discrimination, and and and things that are imposed upon us to feel as if we need to comply, we need to assimilate. We need to look a certain way. We need to use certain products and what we found inevitably um is that we have products that are extraordinarily toxic, and so, while uh Jenny Mitchell, has had the strength to come forward. We'Re talking about really tens of thousands of women who've been impacted by hair relaxer, not just with uterine cancer, but a body of scientific work, which we allege also cause um, endocrine disruption, which is a condition that could lead to a number of disease States and I'm Sure you and many other people know folks who have fibroids who have had infertility. Issues have had other issues, so it's not just limited, as we allege in the complaint and a number of other complaints to uterine cancer, but really um a number of health conditions and and to tie back to what you said about discrimination um. You know we're now in the place over the last couple of decades that we have the science to establish it, and the lack of science um decades ago was also about not having scientific research in communities of color about communities of color by scientists of color. So it's all cyclical um, and so your point you know this is one of many products targeted our communities that have significant impacts on on the lives and health of black women. And you know - and this is when we start seeing um seeing these studies uh. You know we're talking about generations of black women that have been impacted and now you're talking about. You know grandmothers and mothers and daughters and nieces uh that that that and and it became this psychological thing and you got people even now. Yes, you have an increase of folks who who are going natural, but you have, but you still have this this this this generational thing: oh no! No! No! I I got to have that certain look and these companies are making billions off of this. Well, I think collectively yeah, we we exceed billions and I think the question a lot of the dialogue in our community is it's a style right and um. You know I want to have different styles, especially in this context with my hair and a lot of it. The responsibilities on the manufacturers - you know when you think about it: it's a lifestyle issue and you're risk in folks life without notifying them right. So I think in defense of a lot of black women um. You know there wasn't this knowledge. You know that yeah, you know. Maybe there are safer Alternatives like like blow drying or whatever you want to do to alter um the natural appearance of your hair, but the onus I I want to put the onus where it belongs. Yeah um, as we allege, and it's on the companies that we're using and continue to use ingredients we we know to be extraordinarily toxic. Um. If you look at you know the allegations of the complaint again we're talking about hair relaxers. With light with formaldehyde, I mean um and you think about consistently putting that on one scalp. You know for some folks, every three weeks every month, every other month for decades. You know what does that mean to put those types of chemicals on your scalp with dermal exposure and absorption um over decades and decades and, like you and you just said Roland for for Generations, um and and that's I think we detail that very well. So our hope is always right. Um in the work you do and the work that we do, that the companies will step up and be responsible. Um give some modicum of Justice to these women, not just the women. We represent many more women we represent to cell with Ben crump's firm, I mean other Ally firms um and that they will change some of the formulations in these hair relaxer products, um absolutely um any questions from the panel Randy I'll start with you. You know I was thinking when you said the the pressure on women to look around at. It has only been passed in 18 states and the crown act. You know where, where people cannot be discriminated against based on wearing their neck and was blocked by Republicans on the federal level, absolutely blocked by Republicans on the federal level. Yes, it's about to say that, and so you know there's this pressure that we do have to straighten our hair, because we're told that our hair is not professional in the workplace, and you know this is a means to make money and we want to be seen As professional and feed our families and move up in the workplace, it doesn't it it's it's. It'S amazing to think that it is down to the to to hair, sometimes um. We can be discriminated against based on the way our hair grows out of our heads today. Yeah in the majority about States, yeah - and I want to recognize - you know Professor Wendy green, who is the architect of the crown act and as a professor and his life would have it um, because I think all things happen for a reason has been a friend Of mine, 15 years, um and and our work took us in very different directions and obviously we are reunited in this. But to your point she does a majestic job, both as a professor and academic and as the architect of that act of documenting to your point. How we got here um that it was illegal at one point uh for black women to show their hair and then the iterations of that even today, and she talks about the cases that recognize discrimination on the basis of an afro. But then the courts don't recognize that you could discriminate on the basis of locks. You know very bizarre distinctions, but that are very much rooted in you know our history in the white supremacy of of this nation, and so I think you know everything I've seen on the show and this lawsuit is about. You know a reckoning, that's overdue, and most fundamentally um independent of race and related to race. Holding companies accountable. You can't put profits over people and you have to let people know what the risk is and - and you know in in the products that you're selling is especially when it's something cosmetic right. We'Re not talking about the balance between a life-saving drug and um. The side effects of a life-saving drug, we're talking about Breaking the Bond someone's um curl texture, so their hair could be straight As compared to what we allege, Which is higher incidence of uterine rate and higher incidence and exposure of endocrine disruption. In other conditions. It'S just. It'S not justifiable under any argument in our mind and don't you think that it also just ties back to just the disparity with black women in health care. You know how we do not get the same attention. We don't get to participate in the same studies. There'S not attention given to illnesses or products that may affect us negatively. Well, absolutely, I think, when you look at some of the endocrine disruption conditions and just care of black women in general, in the healthcare context, which is well documented, um, there's a lot of discrimination, even in terms of how black and brown women are seen as malingering Right and a lot of people don't realize that pain and the pain you experience is often a gateway to a diagnosis. So you come in and you say: listen, I'm having a lot of uterine pain or stomach pain and and because - and it's well documented that there's the sense that black women are malingering or making up additional pain or seeking pain, medicine. There'S often a dismissal of the initial symptoms that might lead to a diagnosis right and we all know um. The best way to get care is to be diagnosed early. The best way to get care is for people to listen to your concerns and then practice evidence-based medicine and work backwards and say you know what have you been exposed to? You know what are some cultural norms terms that can explain what you're going through and other women who are similarly situated or going through. So it's it's all related. You know it's! It'S all tied to one another um: the failure to diagnose the failure to really identify significant disease States um in black and brown communities, so that we can figure out what's causing it and we can take action and save people's lives all right DeAndre. We certainly appreciate it thanks a bunch. Keep us abreast uh, where this uh lawsuit goes. Thank you for having me video in just one moment. 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ScalePrice: My wife died from cancer she was a lawyer for over 30 years she just died in April 7,2022 I would see her use relaxers sometimes every other month also I loss her to poor medical care because she was a black woman complaining about the symptoms she was having from the chemotherapy medicine her name was attorney Gia Austin-Carroll
Black Butterfly: I'm so glad Roland brought up the elephant in the room regarding black women being harassed not just by their work colleagues, but also by the public. Former black weather reporter Rhonda Lee spoke on how she received an onslaught of hate by white people who felt her natural hair was unattractive, and would write in complaining and demanding something be done to change her look. She was fired. She eventually ended up here in the Pacific Northwest, and her career here was also cut short. Supposedly it was regarding her not being slim enough; I beg to differ. She was the only black woman on King 5 sporting a natural short fro. All the other black women had relaxers, except one who wore braids, and somehow she was gone as well. Seattle is not the inclusive city they claim it to be. Is it liberal: Yes. Democratic: Yes. But, Washington State is mostly white. It always has been. But that's a whole other discussion. Back to what this topic is about. The issues surrounding relaxers and a link to endocrine and reproductive system is definitely alarming, but helps to fill in the blanks as to why fibroids are so prevalent among black women. Although it can be hereditary. Stress also plays a role, as well as environmental factors, diet, but this report about relaxers possibly playing a significant role is a big deal, because so many of us at one point had our hair relaxed. There are issues with fibroids in my family. And I remember asking a gynecologist(white) why are fibroids common in black women as opposed to their white female counterparts, and she all but cut me off. She wasn't the first person I'd ask regarding the topic. Every doctor says: We Don't know I just didn't buy it. These are doctors. But♀️ anything's possible. I do know that while they hate being inundated with questions by black women regarding their health, specifically reproductive health. They are all too eager to push black women towards getting a hysterectomy without telling you your options. That I do know
Linda Love: Oh, sheet! I didn't even know L'Oreal made relaxers. I've been natural for 2 years now and am so happy I did. Was this a type of genocide? Wow! I had to have a hysterectomy due to fibroids. I used to relax my hair starting at 13. I'm 66 now.
Debra Cunningham: A lot of makeup has talc which has asbestos, even MAC makeup has it. I relaxed my hair for 34 years and totally regret it. I had fibroids and had to get a hysterectomy. It’s ashame that our natural hair was considered unprofessional.
luvbig41: Sisters have to realize that the beauty products advertised on tv aren't created with them in mind. They are an afterthought.
Tricia Harrison: I was always advised that the entire scalp should be saturated with Vaseline to act as a barrier to prevent penetration of the product via the scalp and so also prevent burning; before going to the hairdressers do this yourself as the amount of Vaseline used is not nearly enough to protect the scalp and it’s also often only used around the ears and nape of the neck. I’ve always found this works very well and I have been using these products for many years. White women also straighten their hair using similar products. There should also long gaps between each application, at least three months. The adhesive and the gauze that's used on a shaved scalp to apply extensions (to make them look like growing hair) and wigs is also highly damaging to the hair follicles, and blocks the sweat glands; these stuck on extensions should be removed every three months and the scalp allowed to recover. Hope this helps.
HeeeyOhaji😏: Thank you for covering this Roland!
Lee Lee: Definitely a unfortunate situation, as woman we all like to get beautified and we don’t always realize or think about the consequences of using different products, such as relaxers, hair color and even wig glue theses are all chemicals. I have seen people use hot comb and they get the same affect as a relaxer so it’s definitely better to go that route vs chemicals
zammy my 🙃 naker snacks TBMOTH: It does cause cancer amongst other things like reproductive issues like infertility, fibroids and cysts.
Queen Cormie: Great show..however it would be nice to get black people on the show that have a different point of view..those wigs are definitely linked to cancer..the formaldehyde on those things sitting on the head skin to skin sweating day in and out is toxic too..so many specials have come out about this and black women continue wearing them because of dependency..and low self esteem..at some point BW have to take your power back and look at your part which you can control..the first perm by madam CJ Walker had lye in it..and it made her yesterdays first woman multi millionaire..I stopped relaxing my hair 16 years ago..and I will never go back..Roland..where are your natural haired black women while talking about this subject..representation matters
Dark Country: When ethical black folk try to open black folks eyes; there are always black folk who will roll their eyes...
Gabriel Harris: I truly believe they researched it. It's not a coincidence that everything we enjoy poison us but not them. At some point everyone has to realize that
G4Jonze Masely: Reading the History How the Chemicals were First Tested on Dog Hair I knew it Wasn’t Safe.
T. Kuykendall: I support her. ❤️
Cyndee: L’Oréal bought up Carol’s daughter and other black products. They knew nothing about Shea butter, since buying Carol’s daughter, now they put Shea butter in the White hair products. If anyone remembers Carol’s daughter, you’d know that Jada Pinkett Smith owned half of that Carol’s Daughter. Hopefully it’s not not why she lost her because they sold it while it was wildly popular.
fairy wishes: I don't know why women trust the chemical industry with their hair growth. women need to look at YouTube videos and use natural hair products.
Mars H: Girl bye! Malcolm X told us a looong time ago to stop conching our hair.
Dewanda Brewer: Thank you Roland for highlighting this issue. Personally, I think the discussion has to go deeper as to what is the root that make black women willing to take the risk? The Crown Act was a good step, as a solution in the workplace, but from my research the definition and standard of beauty is the real root problem. Throughout the years, the standard changes and some standards of beauty that have negativity impacted black women in the past (having full lips and larger butts) have now become positive beauty traits( at least that is at the moment). However, the hair type of black women has never been the standard at any time, that I am aware of, in American history. I believe it has to start with black women being ALLOWED to learn to love our hair as it grows from our head.
Jhizall: Why specifically L’Oréal? There are many other companies that produce chemical hair relaxers
BusyBee Dereon: I LOOOVVVEEE the versatility of our NATURAL hair!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Y P: I was 12 years old when my older sister first put a relaxer in my hair and I continued on with the same behavior with my daughter with putting relaxers in her hair. Now, I am 52 years of age and suffers from multiple uterine fibroids the size of 10 centimeters and more. My daughter suffered from Menorrhagia. It’s been nine years since my daughter and I have been relaxer free! However, I was told on several occasions by physicians to have a full hysterectomy but I am too afraid of that evasive surgery. Roland, do you think Ben Crump and other attorneys will start a class action suit on this matter, because I would like to receive more information to get involved in the class action suit?
Ivee: My mom's was the 1st & last that straightened my hair. I STILL HAVE A BURN SCAR ON THE TOP OF MY EAR
ANiSayso KNOitWell: We have always been attacked. Hair body etc. Yes. I have lost several female loved ones with these cancers. We now know why. . Oh. That’s why I am a fan of LIZZO. Love how she loves her body or at least seems to love it. Don’t know her personally. MJS
CT Gal: Forced to straighten your hair? Applying the creamy crack to your scalp is a choice. Up until the 70s women pressed and curled or wore wigs for straight looks, no chemicals involved. The 80s started this chemical relaxer and jherri curl culture.
Prestigious Wisdom: Praying our black women continue to pursue our natural hair all we need is water, grease and oil just that simple and gel to seal in the moisture.
j brooks: I am glad i stopped the regular relaxers in my early 20s. Although I only used no lye.
David Campbell: Well in this case, maybe you need to look into what haircolor and hair lightening is doing to women. Not just relaxers but the sisters that want to be Blonde and lightening their hair. Talk about that.
locadisa: Then you must also look at the chemicals in lotions,creams,make up,glues and what women use on their skin,their nails,in the bath products. Check out acrylic and gel nails. Check out the UV rays used to dry the nails.These companies never really care...not just about black women. It's about people in general. They know how toxic their products are just like pharmaceutical companies know how toxic their drugs are and they will never stop using the same ingredients until too many people complain about the adverse effects that they cause on the body. They make big big profits.There are still so many out there that should be banned. Toxic chemicals are even being used to create costume jewelry.
MsVictorie: Lord ,, we as lil blk && brown girls,, have always heard u can’t get a perm wen u pregnant etc. && that this perming ur hair is unsafe
Kaylin: As evil as these companies are my mom with a high school education knew this was toxic.
Evette Pierre: I gave this particular vid a "Like". Black women/girls this is Absolutely Correct. If you don't listen to anything else today listen to the truth right here about perming your hair. I love you all!. Please STOP perming your hair with the toxic deadly chemicals
Tina Hill: IM ALSO WAS TRYING TO GET HELP WITH A PRODUCTS NAME WOW!! MESS UP MY HAIR BAD HAVE PICTURE IT WAS HURTING AND BURNING MY HAIR AND I CRIED AND HAD TO SLEEP WITH THIS TILL I HAD TO CUT MY HAIR AND LET IT NATURALLY GROW BACK ALL MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR IS GONE STARTING TO GROW BACK SLOWLY MAYBE MICHIGAN STATE MUST BE THE ONLY STATE THAT BLACK BROWN PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET HELP ??
D Greenidge: Watch out for HAIR DYES COMING UP. SO dangerous.
Crystal V. Robertson: ✨Be Blessed!
Elle: There is a significant amount of black women afflicted with uterine fibroids which forces many to have hysterectomies. No one knows what causes this or why such a high number of black women are impacted. It could be heredity, diet or chemicals used in relaxers and hair products. However, I will say that I know women of other races who also have had fibroids so it is something much deeper that requires further research.
Crystal V. Robertson: ✨ Preserve DemoCrazy
Alfreda Gross: Do they warn women to discontinue relaxers while pregnant? Good luck on the lawsuit.❤
Melissa VerDuin: Pesticides on/in our foods are also endocrine disruptors! Especially on children's developing brains!
Crystal V. Robertson: ✨ The Choir is Singing OUR Negro Spirituals...
Felix mbanda Ndayitabi: In Europe most of those products are illegal. Here in Bologna, Italy, no later than last week a cosmetic shop catering to black and brown women was closed because they imported those products from the US. The irony being that L'Oréal is a French company that doesn't market those products in France or the EU.
Blacklight Freakout: I am black female who is 50 years old, and I have never had a white person at any job complain about my hair and I have been natural since the 90s. The only people who complained about my black hair and said it was UNPROFESSIONAL looking was coming from black folks, especially black hair stylist who tried to get me to get a perm, because it would be easier to take care of instead of them blow drying or hot combing my hair. I never had no white person complain about my hair on the job. Sorry....so not true. And also, it has been well known that perms cause cancer and was talked about in the 1980s, and that didn't stop black women from not perming and relaxing their hair at all. Relaxers causing cancer was WELL-KNOWN since the 1980s. Anyone who act dumb to this now is just being an idiot. A lot of black women wanted that bone straight hair at all cost and would fight against going natural. That is how much they hated themselves. So if they get cancer from their own stupidity then I ain't feeling sorry for them. I ain't shedding no damn tears.
Crystal V. Robertson: ✨ Greetings from the Angelic Realms!
Crystal V. Robertson: ✨ Greetings from the Angelic Realms!
eddie nicholas: With all the black beauty products available for hair why in the world would one use lOreal oh that's right they want that silky sheen ..
Sonia B: We can iron our hair to straighten up
world's best braider shanuga braids: Yes sue
Lester Hampton: Yes my mother died of cancer back in 2006
Blaq: Don't chemically fry that hair? Natural is Chemical free. My proverbs 31 10-31 mother fried hair in the kitchen. It was a social event, fish and hair.
Fardosh Nassor:
Sandra Frazier: How did relaxers pass the FDA without putting warnings ⚠️ on the labels or is it there in fine print?
Brand New: That’s so stupid. We’re gonna start blaming liquor companies for liver damage? Some stuff is common sense. Let’s stop trying to hustle people for an easy check and be responsible for our own personal choices. If you’re too stupid to realize that chemicals damage their hair, you don’t deserve to have hair.
Wanda Boynton: I'm glad I'm all natural now and been stopped with them chemicals.
Cece Princess: Theres so much sh@@ going on
Hope's Daughter: ⚖️ I am writing a dissertation on the challenges faced by Black American women workers and this is one of them for sure. ✊
Fred Jr: Dang it soaked through the wig
ZACKAMANIA: Anyone who saw that scene in Malcolm X where Denzel put his head in the toilet were you shocked as I was? I’m white and I was 14 when I saw the movie back in 92 so I was unaware of that stuff.
D Bro: I hope she can prove it. Very difficult to do so Very hard to prove.
AL SLIM SHADY: Well Ben Crump pop out screaming and yelling no justice no peace
Echad: So, if the workplace is telling you to straighten your hair, why not sue the workplace instead of a "hair care" company?
LOREN ELEMENT: Black hair is already VERSATILE. We can alter our hair more ways the other nationalities. KINKY natural hair looks better. I keep seeing these ugly weaves, and lace fronts that don't look natural or most of the time, in my opinions, not nice. Its odd that our hair type has so any rules and regulations against it, along with our skin, and fools go along with it. Yet, quick to protect another communities image.
Lucky: HMMM HOLY FATHER.
In Black America Radio: I hope she get every penny……….However, Black men BEEN telling Black woman them chemicals not only was bad for your health we been telling y’all them chemicals y’all put in your head is making y’all crazy.
m Jerome: I believe that stuff does cause Cancer
BusyBee Dereon: I would not say that chemical-straightening hair products are linked to her cancer either. But I WILL say that hair relaxers are strongly linked to fibroid cysts within the uterine tract....which is the reason why such cysts are prevalent among black women in this country.
Jesse Loewen: Why y’all trying to straighten ur hair? Isn’t that cultural appropriation (as y’all like to say)?
Sandra Kaye: Ask any mortician about the hair of a deceased Black woman if she used relaxers? You will be surprised at what you’ll hear.
deep thinker: It's only a couple of black companies own black hair care products. Most of the hair care products are own by White companies. Women was told to get hysterectomies because of fibroids but they were told is common among black women to have fibroids but nobody knows why.
Selina Isis: This is why Black Doctors matter. Endometrial cancer does not present with pain, but abnormal bleeding. This has to be evaluated, but if you are Black, and do not have a Black doctor, the abnormal bleeding is more likely to be ignored. As a Black OB/GYN, I have seen this happen WAY too many times.
Daniel Seymour: If I'm not mistaken their products are produced for the part of society not ussins
Rasheed Kesington: On her wig or her real hair
Gsup M: Use that hot comb again to white
Chenelle Scott: Where is our black scientist? We keep buying all these different cultural products that have anything to do with us...
Riff Reaper: Oh brother
NaturalMonty: She is a grown woman who can read and understand that chemicals are in relaxer products. She could have stopped anytime; don't feel sorry or think she has a case she'll win.
Buckwheasha: Purmz is whiet and raysis nawlm tawlm bout?
Randal Ramsook: Chemical warfare
E: Anything for a ….these people read the ingredients and still buy it. Are we gonna sue grits and food companies also for cancer ? Study shows most people with cancer ate grits and drank coffee in the morning as well. When I heard Ben crump name. That’s all I needed to know
Ms. Andrea: More black woman are wearing natural hair, so how are they responsible for an increase in uterine cancer. I could understand if this was the case in the 90s and early 2000s. But now, I just don't know. If there are older studies regarding fibroids and cancer, I would love to see it. I am sure they are responsible for something, but an increase now, idk.
Prince Alexander: You are a black woman.. Your hair is not supposed to be straight.... ✊✊✊✊
GNOCH 88: If black women weren't concerned with looking like something other than black(they claim it's not to look white lol) this wouldn't be a problem. I don't feel sorry for none of them. In fact, this brings me joy!