Warning about Black Hair Care Products

[mattapansista]

PLEASE PASS ON !!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> FYI - spread the word, Be Aware. Even if you don't need this
>> information pass it on. It might save someone's life.
>>
>> Lifestyles Report...Hair scare
>>
>> by Debbie Norrell
>>
>> At least two m! onths ago WPXI contacted me to do an interview about
>> ingredients in hair care products used by African-Americans possibly
>> leading to breast cancer. I was selected because I am a 15-year
>> breast cancer survivor. I agreed to do the interview. However at the
>> end of the taping I didn't know anything more about the study than
>> before the cameras started rolling.
>>
>> Recently WAMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier freelance writer
>> Allegra Battle did a story on this same subject and it was a feature
>> on the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these stories we
>> still did not have a list of the products. Battle gave me the list
>> that didn't
>> make her feature during a recent visit I made to the WAMO studio's
>> promoting the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. So many of my friends have
>> seen the stories on television or read about this issue in the paper
>> and
>> they want to know which products to be concerned about.
>>
>> However I wanted to give you more so I! went to the Internet and
>> looked for articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and
>> found one
>>
>> entitled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines
>> Environmental Suspects (update spring 2005).
>>
>> The article stated, one of immediate research priorities of the new
>> center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in
>> African-Americans under the age of 40, who have nearly twice as much
>> breast cancer as do white women. The center will work with Silent
>> Spring Institute, a Massachusetts based cancer institute, to identify
>> suspect contaminants and ingredients in hair care products and other
>> personal products regularly used by African-American young women and
>> their mothers.
>>
>> More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in hair
>> care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for
>> higher cancer
>> rates in this population. I've started to carry copies of the list in
>> my
>> purse but we're going to share it with ! you right here. The list
>> simply
>> says: The following is a list of products that have previously been
>> found to contain hormones:
>>
>> Placenta Shampoo
>>
>> Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
>>
>> Placenta revitalizing shampoo
>>
>> Perm Repair with placenta
>>
>> Proline Perm Repair with placenta
>>
>> Hormone hair food Jojoba oil
>>
>> Triple action super grow
>>
>> Supreme Vita-Gro
>>
>> Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
>>
>> B & B Super Gro
>>
>> Lekair natural Super Glo
>>
>> Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E
>>
>> Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine
>>
>> Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
>>
>> Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO
>>
>> Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
>>
>> Nu Skin body smoother and
>>
>> Nu Skin Enhancer.
>>
>> The majority of these products contain placental extract, placenta,
>> hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis
>> (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Environmental
>> oncology, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and
>> co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens,
>> synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer.
>>
>> Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not born, but made
>> and the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the
>> greater her
>> risk of breast cancer."
>>
>> We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair
>> and our bodies and demand that more information about our health is
>> shared.
>>
>> Ladies and gentlemen beware.
>> --

 

[alexei]

That's it! Only natural oils and creams from here on out. I've been thinking about making my own mix of natural oils (jojoba, avocado, etc.) anyway. It is just too risky using commercial products IMO. They might be loaded with other disease causing ingredients that have not yet been identified as dangerous to our health. Personally I don't have the patience to carry around a super list of buyer-beware ingredients everytime I step into a bss. Thanks for posting this.

 

[lisajames96]

Just an fyi, because I heard this may be a hoax, I asked Allegra Battle if she ever did a story about this and if she did where did she do her research on it? Hoping to hear back from her soon. In the meantime, I told my fam about the email so they could be aware of any possible ill effects of those product...I know...I have tooo much time on my hands...

 

[MzTami]

Just an fyi, because I heard this may be a hoax, I asked Allegra Battle if she ever did a story about this and if she did where did she do her research on it? Hoping to hear back from her soon. In the meantime, I told my fam about the email so they could be aware of any possible ill effects of those product...I know...I have tooo much time on my hands...

It's good because we need to know the facts. Let us know as soon as you hear from her.

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[Queenie]

Just an fyi, because I heard this may be a hoax, I asked Allegra Battle if she ever did a story about this and if she did where did she do her research on it? Hoping to hear back from her soon. In the meantime, I told my fam about the email so they could be aware of any possible ill effects of those product...I know...I have tooo much time on my hands...

Any products with estrogen should be avoided even, if the breast cancer link it not true. Over use of this hormone also causes women fibroids. My GYN has told me to avoid products containing them due to my family history of fibroids.

 

[lisajames96]

Any products with estrogen should be avoided even, if the breast cancer link it not true. Over use of this hormone also causes women fibroids. My GYN has told me to avoid products containing them due to my family history of fibroids.

And that is the exact reason why I am making another appt with my gyn because my family has a history of fibroid and ovarian, breast cancers and she gave me a whole list of foods(including soy) a few months ago to stay away from, but never stressed the need to give up topical solutions...so this will be our topic of convo in a couple of weeks...

 

[lisajames96]

Okay, Allegra wrote me back. Here is the copy/paste of the email. The list below is from a .pdf that she attached to her reply. hth
-lisa
******************************************
Lisa, Yes it is true, here is a link to the original story and a listing of the products.
http://www.newpittsburghcourier.com/index.php?article=10002

hope they are helpful

Allegra


-----Original Message-----


From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:09:41 -0400
Subject: Hair scare

> Hi Miss Battle,
> I know you may get emails like this a lot asking you to "verify"
> something.
> Can you verify that this email is talking about you and something you
> actually reported on? Read it and let me know what you think. It is
> being
> circulated on the longhaircareforum.com site where hundreds
> of AA women can read it. God Bless.
> Lisa Ingram

*********************************************
Here is the list from the .pdf...

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2231/pdf7rt.jpg

 

[Queenie]

And that is the exact reason why I am making another appt with my gyn because my family has a history of fibroid and ovarian, breast cancers and she gave me a whole list of foods(including soy) a few months ago to stay away from, but never stressed the need to give up topical solutions...so this will be our topic of convo in a couple of weeks...

My Gyn is really thorough with those types of ?'s too. She also has never asked me this. I will bring it up the next time I am in there, so she knows about these types of products. She's white, so I doubt she'd notice these types of products in the store.

 

[karezone]

B and B Super gro(old formula) really did work. I know that it had hormones in it, but at the time I was not worried about excess hormones.

 

[ccd]

PLEASE PASS ON !!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> FYI - spread the word, Be Aware. Even if you don't need this
>> information pass it on. It might save someone's life.
>>
>> Lifestyles Report...Hair scare
>>
>> by Debbie Norrell
>>
>> At least two m! onths ago WPXI contacted me to do an interview about
>> ingredients in hair care products used by African-Americans possibly
>> leading to breast cancer. I was selected because I am a 15-year
>> breast cancer survivor. I agreed to do the interview. However at the
>> end of the taping I didn't know anything more about the study than
>> before the cameras started rolling.
>>
>> Recently WAMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier freelance writer
>> Allegra Battle did a story on this same subject and it was a feature
>> on the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these stories we
>> still did not have a list of the products. Battle gave me the list
>> that didn't
>> make her feature during a recent visit I made to the WAMO studio's
>> promoting the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. So many of my friends have
>> seen the stories on television or read about this issue in the paper
>> and
>> they want to know which products to be concerned about.
>>
>> However I wanted to give you more so I! went to the Internet and
>> looked for articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and
>> found one
>>
>> entitled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines
>> Environmental Suspects (update spring 2005).
>>
>> The article stated, one of immediate research priorities of the new
>> center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in
>> African-Americans under the age of 40, who have nearly twice as much
>> breast cancer as do white women. The center will work with Silent
>> Spring Institute, a Massachusetts based cancer institute, to identify
>> suspect contaminants and ingredients in hair care products and other
>> personal products regularly used by African-American young women and
>> their mothers.
>>
>> More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in hair
>> care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for
>> higher cancer
>> rates in this population. I've started to carry copies of the list in
>> my
>> purse but we're going to share it with ! you right here. The list
>> simply
>> says: The following is a list of products that have previously been
>> found to contain hormones:
>>
>> Placenta Shampoo
>>
>> Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
>>
>> Placenta revitalizing shampoo
>>
>> Perm Repair with placenta
>>
>> Proline Perm Repair with placenta
>>
>> Hormone hair food Jojoba oil
>>
>> Triple action super grow
>>
>> Supreme Vita-Gro
>>
>> Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
>>
>> B & B Super Gro
>>
>> Lekair natural Super Glo
>>
>> Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E
>>
>> Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine
>>
>> Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
>>
>> Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO
>>
>> Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
>>
>> Nu Skin body smoother and
>>
>> Nu Skin Enhancer.
>>
>> The majority of these products contain placental extract, placenta,
>> hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis
>> (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Environmental
>> oncology, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and
>> co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens,
>> synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer.
>>
>> Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not born, but made
>> and the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the
>> greater her
>> risk of breast cancer."
>>
>> We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair
>> and our bodies and demand that more information about our health is
>> shared.
>>
>> Ladies and gentlemen beware.
>> --

wow is this all Fermodyl products?

 

[Cinnabuns]

I remember reading this a long time ago. After reading I have switched to more natural hair products and my hair loves it.

 

[BLESSED1]

I remember reading this a long time ago. After reading I have switched to more natural hair products and my hair loves it.

Yup same here, it was hard but I've found natural products that my hair loves. Now I'm searching for a natural lotion, even my cocoa butter lotion had parabens in it

 

[~*~ShopAholic~*~]

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[MzTami]

I was in Sun Harvest the other day and I was looking at some of the natural hair products and I'd noticed that a lot of them have parabens too. So I discretely put them back in their original place. I think a lot of people assume just because it's natural it doesn't have the harmful ingredients, but check again, you will be amazed at what some of them contain. Just my opinion.

 

[sareca]

I was in Sun Harvest the other day and I was looking at some of the natural hair products and I'd noticed that a lot of them have parabens too. So I discretely put them back in their original place. I think a lot of people assume just because it's natural it doesn't have the harmful ingredients, but check again, you will be amazed at what some of them contain. Just my opinion.

I did miss a thread? What's paraben? I hope it's not harmful. It's in almost all of my favorite products!

 

[MzTami]

I did miss a thread? What's paraben? I hope it's not harmful. It's in almost all of my favorite products!

Parabens supposedly are used in many products for longer shelf life, but have been linked and known to cause brain cancer in many patients. You can do a search and it will give you more detailed information about parabens. HTH