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Considering the Brazilian Blowout? Read This First!

By Kate Sandoval | 09/29/2010 - 12:45 | 1 Comment

The Brazilian Blowout—a hugely popular salon treatment that transforms curly, frizzy, or damaged hair into smooth, shiny strands for up to three months—claims to be formaldehyde free. Not so, according to Oregon Health and Science University, which detected that the formulas were 4.85 percent to 10 percent formaldehyde, a probable carcinogen.

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