TreasureTress is Europe’s first and largest natural hair product discovery box, where sisterhood connects over kinks and curls.

A COMMUNITY CELEBRATING BLACK VOICES & BLACK FOLX IN THE UK

Project Embrace creates positive visual media representation of Afro textured hair and challenges the lack of and mis-representation of black women and their natural hair in the media, workplace and society at large. We are here to champion a more diverse beauty representation.

Created by influencers Jay & Trina, Curlture UK is the place to love your culture and your curls.

The companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals.

The use of hair-straightening products containing glyoxylic acid is associated with a risk for acute kidney failure because of the accumulation of calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys.

Exclusive: Major study into impact of products containing lye, a harsh chemical used in drain unblockers.

A study found that women who used hair relaxers several times a year were almost twice as likely to develop uterine cancer.

Campaign group Level Up are urging for research into lye-based products affect Black women’s health

Level Up’s Campaign Raises Concerns Over Chemical Hair Straighteners Containing Sodium Hydroxide, Found to Cause Cervical and Breast Cancer According to Studies by US National Institutes of Health and Oxford University”

Campaign groups are concerned about ingredients in hair relaxers – but the science isn’t conclusive on the issue

Consumer group urges maker of Dark & Lovely and other hair relaxers to make its products safer for use or remove them from the market entirely

Organized by UK feminist group Level Up, the letter was prompted by an NIH study that linked hair relaxers to an increased risk of cancer.

Chemical hair straighteners allegedly raise serious health risks.

Female activists also asked the company to invest in research on the long-term use of chemical relaxers, which make hair easier to straighten

Studies show the products may double the risk of uterine cancer, but tradition, societal pressure and personal taste create obstacles to change

We’re setting boundaries and being kind to ourselves, just because.

So many of us strived for this unrealistic, unattainable beauty standard.

In light of studies showing the link between long-term lye use in hair products and breast cancer in Black women, Level Up wants big beauty brands to take these harmful items off shelves.

Hair discrimination… let’s talk about it!

Through policy change and education, this collective aims to create a future without hair discrimination in the UK.

Although the health care system has done much to reduce the incidence of ingestion of such alkalis as drain and oven cleaners, in recent years we have seen an overwhelming increase in the incidence of hair relaxer ingestion.