For over 35 years, Environmental Litigation Group has helped numerous clients injured by unsafe products to obtain rightful compensation. Feel free to call us if you have been using chemical hair relaxers and are diagnosed with uterine cancer or ovarian cancer.
Namaste Laboratories marketed the ORS Olive Oil hair straightening products as no-lye, safe hair relaxers but still contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which are known to interfere with the production of estrogen and other hormones. The company's top-selling brand of at-home chemical hair relaxers is the Organic Root Stimulator Olive Oil Relaxer.
After the initial results of the Sister Study were published on 17 October 2022, women who used the Namaste Laboratories’ hair chemical relaxer products started to file toxic hair relaxer claims against the company. Plaintiffs accused Namaste Laboratories of negligent, willful, and wrongful conduct in connection with the development, manufacture, testing, design, packaging, promoting, marketing, distribution, labeling, and/or sale of their chemical hair relaxers.
One of the eligibility requirements that need to be met in order to file a toxic hair relaxer claim against Namaste Laboratories is that the consumer must have used Namaste Laboratories' chemical hair relaxer products for at least 2-5 years at least four times a year. The other requirement is to be diagnosed with one of the following cancers:
- uterine cancer (endometrial cancer, uterine sarcoma)
- ovarian cancer (non-serous and serous tumors)
Key facts
Active MDL
MDL 3060, N.D. Ill.
Key NIH study
Sister Study, 2022
Increased uterine cancer risk
2.5×