A Supposedly Safer Hair-Straightening Ingredient Could Be Damaging People's Kidneys

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A woman’s hair care routine seems to have given her repeated bouts of kidney damage. In a new case study this month, her doctors describe how the woman’s use of hair-straightening products containing a certain ingredient likely injured her kidneys. The ingredient, called glyoxylic acid, has been tied to similar…

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