L'Oréal's new hair straightener + multi styler uses light instead of extreme heat — and it works 3X faster

L'Oréal announced an infrared hair straightener and an LED face mask at CES 2026, both launching in 2027 with light-based ...
Forbes

Dyson Airstrait Review: A Near-Perfect Tool For Managing Frizz

In my teens and twenties, I would spend up to an hour every couple of days using a hair straightener to manage frizz. After having my son, even my reliable decade-old flat iron hasn’t been able to ...
UUHC Health Feed

FDA Discussing Ban of Formaldehyde in Hair Straighteners

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to ban formaldehyde as an ingredient in chemical hair straighteners, also known as relaxers. Theresa Werner, MD, deputy director of Huntsman Cancer ...
Allure on MSN

Update: The FDA missed its self-imposed deadline to ban formaldehyde in hair straighteners

UPDATE (January 5, 2026): The future of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 's proposed ban on hair-straightening products ...
CNN

Dyson Airstrait vs. ghd Duet Style: Which wet-to-dry hair straightener is best?

This article is part of our series Battle of the Brands, in which we compare category-leading products to their counterparts to determine which are actually worth your money. From blow-dryer brushes ...
PBS

Congresswomen ask FDA why it has delayed proposed ban on hair-straightening chemicals

Two U.S. House members who first pushed the Food and Drug Administration in 2023 to investigate the health risks of hair straighteners used primarily by Black women are now asking the agency why it ...
NPR

The FDA misses its own deadline to propose a ban on formaldehyde from hair products

The Food and Drug Administration has missed its own deadline to propose a ban on the use of formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers and hair straighteners on the market in the United States.