Materials, chemical, procedures…this is the stuff that Guci Image is bult on. Actually, all salons should be leading with their best materials, well-tested and government approved chemicals and well-trained skilled/trained technicians. In this day and age of bad news traveling at the click of a mouse or how long it takes to download a TikTok video, when a hair client comes up against a salon who does them wrong or some chemical they inadvertently use harms their hair, the world knows about it quickly. So, again, materials, chemical and procedures need to be top notch, whether one goes out to a salon or works on their hair at home.
This week we all learned that a certain chemical, used in hair straightening/relaxing products, has come up under the scrutiny of the FDA to such a degree that the government is proposing a ban on the substance. The proposal would see the ban on formaldehyde being put into any hair-straightening topicals for the time being. Whether a further ban of formaldehyde would follow, has not yet been proposed.
A colorless, yet highly flammable gas used in various products pretty much found all around the house, as well as included in some medicines and cosmetics, formaldehyde can as much irritate eyes, skin and throat as it has been linked to some cancers. And as insidious as formaldehyde is it has been found that even those products that don’t contain the chemical as a main ingredient, if they do contain chemicals like methylene glycol (the seemingly main culprit hair in straightening solutions) when heated, this chemical can convert to formaldehyde. Certain shampoos, soaps and lotions contain formalin, which is simply water dissolved formaldehyde.
As any responsible salon would, (not just your friendly neighborhood New Jersey hair replacement salon) we surely applaud updated and consistent attention to the potential harmful chemicals that we might find in modern-day hair products. Guci Image urges you to be ever so careful what you use at home on your hair, skin, and ingest, as well as to vet the people who work on your hair.
We want you alive and well for a very very long time.
