{"id":61071,"date":"2024-06-23T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=61071"},"modified":"2024-06-23T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T08:16:46","slug":"nigeria-your-wig-could-be-poisoning-you-study-finds-pesticides-and-other-toxic-chemicals-in-synthetic-hair-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/23\/nigeria-your-wig-could-be-poisoning-you-study-finds-pesticides-and-other-toxic-chemicals-in-synthetic-hair-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Your Wig Could Be Poisoning You &#8211; Study Finds Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals in Synthetic Hair in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61072\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wig-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wig-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wig-1024x928.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wig-770x698.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wig-360x326.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wig.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well-groomed hair is a symbol of beauty for many black African women. Natural hair\u00a0<a class=\"external external-icon\" title=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/the-money-spinning-business-of-weave-ons-wigs\/\" href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/the-money-spinning-business-of-weave-ons-wigs\/\">requires special care and attention<\/a>, though, which can be time consuming.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406230010.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Well-groomed hair is a symbol of beauty for many black African women. Natural hair\u00a0requires special care and attention, though, which can be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wigs-Nigeria.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61074,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61071\/revisions\/61074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}