The use of hair-straightening products containing glyoxylic acid is associated with a risk for acute kidney failure because of the accumulation of calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys.

Interestingly enough, glyoxylic acid and similar chemicals are intended to be safer alternatives to formaldehyde, which has long been used in hair-straightening products but is now being phased ...

Glyoxylic acid was patented and introduced recently in hair-straightening products as a seemingly safer alternative to formulations containing formaldehyde. 4,5 In consideration of the potential ...

Each AKI episode coincided with a hair-straightening procedure at the same salon that used a cream containing 10% glyoxylic acid. A relatively new product, glyoxylic acid was recently developed as ...