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If you're like most African American women, you've probably used hair grease to style and protect your natural hair at some point in your life. And if you're like most women, you may not have known that there are some serious health risks associated with using hair grease products made with cancer and fibroid-causing ingredients.

So, what are fibroids? Fibroids are non-cancerous growths that develop in the uterus and can range in size from very small to large enough to fill the entire pelvic cavity. They're usually benign (not cancerous), but they can cause a variety of symptoms including heavy menstrual bleeding, pain, and pressure in the pelvic area. Fibroids are most common in African American women, and while they can occur at any age, they're most likely to develop during childbearing years.

Fact Check: The European Union classifies petrolatum as a carcinogen and restricts its use [1].

There are a variety of hair grease products on the market that claim to be safe for use on natural hair, but many of them contain ingredients that have been linked to cancer and fibroids. Some of the most common offenders include petroleum jelly, parabens, phthalates, and synthetic fragrances. These ingredients are all known endocrine disruptors, which means they can interfere with the body's hormone production and regulation.

Exposure to endocrine disruptors has been linked to an increased risk of cancer, as well as a variety of other health problems including reproductive issues, birth defects, and developmental disorders. In fact, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified parabens as "possible human carcinogens."

So, what does this mean for you? If you're using hair grease products that contain any of these ingredients, you may be putting your health at risk. Fortunately, there are a number of safe and effective hair grease alternatives on the market that can help you achieve the same results without the potentially harmful ingredients.

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African American women today tend to believe that in order to grow long hair it takes being gifted from God or some magical elixir or potion made in a lab with the complexity of Frankenstein.  So the question is asked....

Why are we as Black women unable to grow and retain hair length successfully? What am I doing wrong? 

 When it comes to the topic of African American women and hair growth, most of us will readily agree that its success runs from our grasps at every turn.  Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of how to change this paradigm.  Whereas some are convinced that hair growth is hereditary, others maintain that there is no hope for those that have tighter more course textures of Afro textured hair.   

 Science has revealed that Black hair tends to be more prone to dryness.  This dryness is the reason why our hair tends to become brittle and break more readily than other hair types.  

1. According to WebMD iron deficiency has a very close link to hair breakage in African American women than many have realized in the past.  
2. Whatever the cause of your hair loss...Lack of iron makes it worse!
3. Iron deficiency may have a link to a woman’s menstrual cycle which may tend to increase the amount of breakage and brittleness of African American woman’s hair. 

Common Causes of Iron Deficiency:

1. Inadequate Iron Intake, poor diet (Eat your green leafy vegetables, and no I don’t mean corn and green beans) Wait...is corn green? Uh no!
2. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (It means you are eating but still starving)
3. Blood Loss during heavy periods (this could be blood loss during light periods if you already aren't eating green leafy vegetables on a daily basis)... No Corn is still not a vegetable (at least not green or leafy).

by Demetrion Ware

I remember in the 1970s when I was nearly 4 years old watching my grandmother watch "Eye Witness News" on television in Houston, Texas.  She would be sound asleep so I would get up (this was before remotes) and try to change the channel.  She would immediately wake up and say, "Boy turn that back I was watching that!"  "No you wasn't you was sleep", I would silently say to myself.

Sometimes as African Americans we live our lives as if we are not affected by the many things that are goin on around us that actually do impact us.  We hear about wars in Ukraine, wars in Africa, multiple Haitian presidents being killed, but we say "that has nothing to do with me".  

KeraVada CEO Hair Comes Out After Cancer During Livestream on Facebook Live!

Its easy to look a someone else and see that they have diabetes or they have cancer and we say "ok, omma pray fo ya".  I guess I was the same way.  I would see people with cancer (my mother worked for the largest cancer hospital in the world for 30 years), never would have thought I would one day be sitting in their lobby center stage.

I never had a thought of creating a hair grease.  I never even considered creating a natural hair product for black womens natural hair styles to go against non-Black Owned cancer causing products. Why? Because it didn't affect me right?  Boy was I wrong.  After 3 months of chemo-therapy for 8 hours a day 5 days a week, watching my hair fall out (caught on video), sores in my mouth, lesions on my body, severe pain, black fingernails, decided to change that!

and here it is... An All Natural Hair grease without any of the cancer causing ingredients.  

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