Jessicca Alexander embraces her natural hair after years of using relaxers, linking them to her uterine cancer diagnosis.

Research suggests that heavy use of chemical hair relaxers may be linked to an increased risk of certain cancers. So what then about alternatives?

Bertrand’s study followed nearly 45,000 women -- who were all Black -- for more than 20 years. “We wanted to understand whether women who had a history of using chemical hair relaxers had a ...

If there was ever a place to embrace change, it would be a hair salon ... "Every time I relax it, the third-degree burns and all that, I was over it. I did not enjoy putting relaxers on here ...

Bertrand’s study followed nearly 45,000 women -- who were all Black -- for more than 20 years. “We wanted to understand whether women who had a history of using chemical hair relaxers had a ... on ...