This document summarises what is currently known about the nature and scale of occupational skin disease amongst hairdressers and barbers and gives a brief overview of the characteristics of the industry; it reviews the available evidence for the causes of skin disase in this occupational sector; and finally, lays out some of the interventions that have been tried for this sector in two other E...

Conflicts of interest: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest. by hairdressers to straighten curly hair, have recently become fashionable in hair salons. They are generally based on formaldehyde, which alters hair keratins in order to provide a smoothing effect on frizzy hair. The treatment process usually includes three tasks: (i) applying the product to the hair, (ii) blow-drying ...