Jenny Mitchell, a 32-year-old Missouri resident who contracted uterine cancer, has filed a lawsuit against L’Oréal USA and entities that assisted in the development, marketing and sale of the company’s Motions, Dark & Lovely, Olive Oil Relaxer and Organic Root Stimulator chemical hair straighteners.

Mitchell alleges her cancer was caused “directly and proximately” by her “regular and prolonged exposure to phthalates and other endocrine disrupting chemicals found in Defendants’ hair care products,” CNN reported. Mitchell, who is Black, recalled having hair relaxer treatments as early as third grade at the age of eight, the same source reported.

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