How CR Tested Synthetic Braiding Hair

Consumer Reports has a long history of testing products for chemical contamination and evaluating their comparative safety. When synthetic braiding hair test leader James E. Rogers, PhD, director and head of product safety testing, and his team set out to begin this testing in 2024, he says, he had three goals—to determine whether the chemicals were present, to determine whether you could measure them/how much of each chemical was present, and to find out whether there was a way to determine the possible risk to the consumers who use these products.

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