Detecting The Presence Of Formaldehyde In Hair Products: Understanding The Health Risks

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Dec. 2, 2014 - PRLog -- The safety concerns of OSHA – Formaldehyde content exceeding the maximum level

OSHA recently conducted a series of tests in many of the hair salons to check the levels of formaldehyde, which is basically a dangerous agent, when used in excessive amounts. And three salons, unfortunately, failed them with the 15-minutes duration of Short Term Exposure Limit (STEL). And obviously, the salon owners were charged with fine as they failed to protect the workers from the high risks of the dangerous solution, formaldehyde.

Name Games can play the trick!!

Most of the popular hair straighteners like Brazilian Blowout, in addition to creating your hairs straight (an everlasting on!!), comes with the fake-name game, like pool of free formaldehyde. Now tell me, can you drink tea without sugar? A mixture of water with formaldehyde may seem to be a blind-proof, but it would always contain a high percentage of formaldehyde. When the solution of the mixture known as methylene glycol is exposed to air at the room temperature, returns to this original state or condition. And it is not only Brazilian Blowout, that is involved in this misleading trial and error game; others like Cadiveu, Global Keratin and Marcia Teixeira are also included in the list.

Releasers that take the original form of formaldehyde

Well, chemistry is a little bit complex subject and it gets more complex with the breakdown formulas of the discussed subject, formaldehyde. Do you know that there are a lot many other chemicals, which, when exposed to conditions like air or water evolves into another chemical product? In some of the beauty products like the popular hair straighteners, you would come across an ingredient, known as bonded aldehyde. Clinically, it has been proven that when this chemical compound is applied on the steamed hair, hot vapors produced from it contains high levels of formaldehyde; all these prove that many of the chemical elements acts as masking agents for other harmful elements.

Keratin enriched hair straightener manufacturing companies – Completely mum?

It is really shocking that companies like IBS Beauty and Spazzola are completely mum about the subject; that means they are already acknowledged with the harmful side-effects of formaldehyde and they are using them in high percentile, even knowing this.  And it is not only the clients who are falling victims to these misleading claims, others like salon workers are also actively participating in the process.

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