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Mutagenic risks induced by homemade hair straightening creams with high formaldehyde content.
Journal of applied toxicology : JAT - 1 Jan 2010
Mazzei José L, Figueiredo Erika V, da Veiga Lia J, Aiub Claudia A F, Guimarães Pedro I C, Felzenszwalb Israel
Abstract excerpt
Regardless of official recommendations, the inappropriate use of homemade hair creams has became a popular practice in Brazil and high formaldehyde content in the 'progressive straightening' creams has been reported. In the present work, three of these creams were analyzed by spectrophotometric,...
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