Hair relaxer labels deserve a closer look. From “no-lye” to fragrance, these five checks explain what the box says—and where the label stops giving answers.
Sulfate-free shampoo changed the hair aisle. The fear behind the label deserves a closer look, along with the real reasons a gentler cleanser can suit your hair.
Edge control can leave white residue even when the swoop looks perfect. Read the label, understand the hold, and separate product buildup from hairline tension.
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These 13 Black-owned brands did more than sell products in the 1970s.
Old-school Black hair care was more than Blue Magic and a hot comb. Revisit 25 rituals our mothers passed down, then meet the companies behind five familiar jars. Wash day at the kitchen sink. Pink foam rollers before bed. The satin scarf you were told to keep on. Our mothers had a whole routine long…
Dry shampoo recalls exposed a problem the ingredient label couldn’t reveal: benzene contamination. Here’s what the tests found and how to check your can. The familiar brand on the front wasn’t enough. Unilever traced the issue in its recalled aerosol dry shampoos to the propellant—the gas that pushes the product out. That is the distinction…
George and Joan Johnson built Johnson Products and Afro Sheen. Follow the Soul Train sponsorship, the 1993 sale and the later return to Black-led ownership. The company’s growth was a business story and a community story at the same time. George and Joan Johnson developed a hair-care enterprise that understood its customers and built its…
Carol’s Daughter left L’Oréal in 2025, with Lisa Price returning as president and an equity owner. That homecoming does not establish sole ownership. The brand began with Lisa Price’s products and grew into a name shoppers associated with a founder, a community and a particular approach to hair care. Expansion brought outside capital and broader…
Six people built something extraordinary in America, and America answered by taking the country away from them: Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Frantz Fanon, Claudia Jones, Muhammad Ali. The passport, the title, the citizenship, the hospital room, the file. Robeson was the most famous Black man on earth in 1949. Five years later he…