Representing pregnant women and mothers in the criminaljustice system
Level Up
2024
This legal toolkit is designed to equip lawyers with the core legal arguments, tools and resources to effectively represent pregnant women and mothers of infants at all stages of the criminal justice process including bail, sentencing and appeals against sentence.
Media guidelines for reportingon abortion in Britain
Jade Hammond and Ikamara Larasi
2024
While many Black women in US abandon hair relaxers linked to cancer, sales climb in African countries
Susan Smith Richardson and Agatha Gichana
10th April 2024
The companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals.
Hair-Straightening Products Entail Acute Kidney Failure Risk
Vincent Richeux
26th March 2024
The use of hair-straightening products containing glyoxylic acid is associated with a risk for acute kidney failure because of the accumulation of calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys.
Dignity for dead women
Janey Starling, Jade Hammond
06 April 2023
Families report
Level Up
2020
Media Guidelines
Level Up
2022
Sentencing Council submission 2024
Level Up
2024
Sentencing Council submission 2023
Level Up
2023
2022 open letter to the Sentencing Council
Level Up
2022
Treasure Tress
TreasureTress is Europe’s first and largest natural hair product discovery box, where sisterhood connects over kinks and curls.
Project Embrace
Project Embrace creates positive visual media representation of Afro textured hair and challenges the lack of and mis-representation of black women and their natural hair in the media, workplace and society at large. We are here to champion a more diverse beauty representation.
L’Oréal Urged To Withdraw Hair Relaxers From Possible Link To Cancer
Black Report
April 22, 2023
Thousands of Black women claim hair relaxers gave them cancer
Kristina Cooke, Mike Spector, Richa Naidu
April 11, 2023
Majority of Black British women suffer side effects from hair relaxers such as burnt scalp, study finds
Nadine White
May 24, 2023
Exclusive: Major study into impact of products containing lye, a harsh chemical used in drain unblockers.
Injuries That Can be Caused by Hair Relaxers
May 23, 2023
Hair relaxer may double the risk of womb cancer, should we be worried?
Sheilla Mamona
May 5, 2023
A study found that women who used hair relaxers several times a year were almost twice as likely to develop uterine cancer.
Regulation 2009/1223 and the Cosmetic Products Enforcement Regulations 2013: Great Britain
Office for Product Safety & Standards
April 5, 2023
Campaigners call on L’Oréal to remove lye from hair relaxers due to cancer risk
April 27, 2023
Campaign group Level Up are urging for research into lye-based products affect Black women’s health
‘Beyond our business’: L’Oréal ramps up eco investments, but faces further backlash over chemicals in hair products
Gary Scattergood
April 26, 2023
“UK Feminist Group Calls for L’Oréal to Withdraw Hair Straightening Products Linked to Increased Cancer Risk:
April 25, 2023
Level Up’s Campaign Raises Concerns Over Chemical Hair Straighteners Containing Sodium Hydroxide, Found to Cause Cervical and Breast Cancer According to Studies by US National Institutes of Health and Oxford University”
Open Letter Calls for L’Oréal to Withdraw Hair Straightening Products
April 24, 2023
Organized by UK feminist group Level Up, the letter was prompted by an NIH study that linked hair relaxers to an increased risk of cancer.
L’Oreal Urged To Recall Hair Relaxers Due to Cancer Risks
Irvin Jackson
April 24, 2023
Consumer group urges maker of Dark & Lovely and other hair relaxers to make its products safer for use or remove them from the market entirely
Hair straighteners drive consumers to sue companies
April 24, 2023
Why people are suing L’Oréal over hair relaxers
Kamilah McInnis, Paige Neal-Holder
April 24, 2023
Campaign groups are concerned about ingredients in hair relaxers – but the science isn’t conclusive on the issue
Campaigners urge L’Oreal to stop selling hair relaxers after studies find cancer link
Sami Quadri
April 21, 2023
Female activists also asked the company to invest in research on the long-term use of chemical relaxers, which make hair easier to straighten
Advocates Demand L’Oréal Stop Selling Hair Relaxers—Why?
Trish Andrada
April 21, 2023
Chemical hair straighteners allegedly raise serious health risks.
Hair Relaxer Cancer Lawsuit
Ronald V. Miller Jr.
April 21, 2023
CTPA Welcomes New Chair and Vice-chair
March 23, 2023
Why some Black women won’t or can’t quit hair relaxers – even as the dangers become clearer
Deborah Douglas
December 12, 2022
Studies show the products may double the risk of uterine cancer, but tradition, societal pressure and personal taste create obstacles to change
Is Your Hair Giving You Cancer?
Pandora Dewan
November 21, 2022
Are Hair Relaxers Really Causing Cancer? Everything You Need To Know
TAYO BERO
November 17, 2022
US woman files lawsuit against L’Oréal, claiming chemical hair straightening products are linked to her cancer
Jacqueline Howard
October 24, 2022
Hair-straightening chemical products linked to increased uterine cancer risk in new study
Jacqueline Howard
October 18, 2022
Use of Straighteners and Other Hair Products and Incident Uterine Cancer
Alexander P Keil, Alexandra J White MSPH, Chandra L Jackson, Che-Jung Chang PhD, Dale P Sandler, Katie M O’Brien, Symielle A Gaston
October 17, 2022
These old-school relaxer boxes are reminding Black ’90s babies just how far we went to straighten our curls
Kumba Kpakima
October 14, 2022
So many of us strived for this unrealistic, unattainable beauty standard.
Wait, Were The 90s Hair Relaxer Girls Natural All Along?
ADAMA MUNU
October 14, 2022
How Black women are redefining wellness in the face of racial trauma and injustice
Lola Christina Alao
December 10, 2022
We’re setting boundaries and being kind to ourselves, just because.
Is A Healthy Hair Relaxer Ever Possible?
KEDEAN SMITH
June 30, 2022
#NoMoreLyes: the campaign that wants to put an end to toxic hair products marketed towards Black women
Niellah Arboine
August 13, 2021
In light of studies showing the link between long-term lye use in hair products and breast cancer in Black women, Level Up wants big beauty brands to take these harmful items off shelves.
Afro hair bias is not a vanity issue, it’s a human rights issue and here’s why
Adwoa Darko
May 20, 2021
Hair discrimination… let’s talk about it!
Hair product use and breast cancer incidence in the Black Women’s Health Study
Julie R Palmer, Kimberly A Bertrand, Lynn Rosenberg, Patricia F Coogan, Yolanda M Lenzy, Yvette C Cozier
May 20, 2021
Halo Collective: It’s time to end hair discrimination in British schools
Thalia Papanicolaou
December 17, 2020
Through policy change and education, this collective aims to create a future without hair discrimination in the UK.
Hair relaxers and dyes aren’t the only cosmetic products disproportionately harming black women
Niellah Arboine
January 17, 2020
L’Oreal: No More Cancer Chemicals in Cosmetics
June 27, 2017
Hair Relaxer Use and Risk of Uterine Leiomyomata in African-American Women
David Reich, Julie R. Palmer, Lauren A. Wise, Lynn Rosenberg, Yvette C. Cozier
January 3, 2012
Hair relaxers: a benign caustic ingestion?
Gisela Chelimsky, Herbert D Aronow, Stefanie P Aronow, Steven Czinn, Thomas Blanchard
January 1, 2003
Although the health care system has done much to reduce the incidence of ingestion of such alkalis as drain and oven cleaners, in recent years we have seen an overwhelming increase in the incidence of hair relaxer ingestion.
Hair Relaxer Ingestion: A New Trend
Harlan R. Muntz MD, James W. Forsen MD
January 10, 1993
Curlture UK
Created by influencers Jay & Trina, Curlture UK is the place to love your culture and your curls.