A recent study links chemical hair relaxers to hormone-sensitive cancers
Women who sued the Indian hair care industry leader may be entitled to financial compensation if the cosmetics giant is found liable for acting negligently or intentionally. The plaintiffs accused the company of marketing the hair relaxer products as safe when they knew or should have known that some endocrine-disrupting chemical compounds could potentially increase the risk of uterine cancer or ovarian cancer. They would not have purchased the company's hair relaxers if they had known that they might contain chemicals that have harmful effects on human health.
Plaintiffs accused Godrej Consumer Products of negligent, willful, and wrongful conduct in connection with the design, development, manufacture, testing, packaging, promoting, marketing, distribution, labeling, and/or sale of their hair relaxer products. Popular Godrej/Strenght of Nature hair relaxers, the plaintiffs allege responsible for their health problems:
Godrej Consumer Products is named as a defendant in toxic hair relaxer lawsuits
On October 17, 2022, some of the Sister Study results were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institutes, which led to lawsuits against Godrej Consumer Products and other cosmetics companies, that now face a proposed class action over their alleged failure to disclose that some of their chemical hair relaxer products contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The plaintiffs in the Godrej Consumer Products lawsuits claim that EDCs caused the development of the following hormone-sensitive diseases:
It is important to know that in order to file a toxic hair relaxer claim against Godrej Consumer Products, you should meet the following eligibility requirements:
- you must have used their chemical hair straighteners for at least 2 - 5 years
- you must have used their chemical hair straightener products at least four times a year
- you must have been diagnosed with uterine cancer or ovarian cancer
