When Consumer Reports first tested synthetic braiding hair last year, scientists found potentially dangerous heavy metals and volatile organic compounds in the vast majority of samples. Now, in a new ...

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Consumer Reports' second braiding hair study finds heavy metals and volatile organic compounds in most products. An Oregon ...

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A collaborative team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, and the Chinese Research Academy ...

When Consumer Reports published findings from tests conducted on several synthetic braiding hair products in 2025, we detected heavy metals like lead in 90 percent and volatile organic compounds (VOCs ...