Africa's Best Relaxer Lawsuit

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Africa’s Best for years? You were told the risk was scalp burns.

One question tells you where you stand.

Active litigation — no settlement. MDL 3060 underway · 12,381 cases pending · filing deadlines vary by state and run from when you knew or should have known.

Did you get relaxers — perms, the white cream — every few weeks, for years?

That one question decides most of it. It seems like nobody ever told you the risk was anything worse than a scalp burn.

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What the lawsuit is actually about →

No receipts needed · you don’t have to remember every brand · no fee unless there is a recovery. Court costs and litigation expenses are advanced by counsel and repaid from the recovery. You are not responsible for court costs or litigation expenses if there is no recovery, unless a court directs otherwise. The attorney’s fee is a percentage of the gross recovery, calculated before expenses are deducted.

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Claims are brought against the companies that made and sold chemical relaxers — not against your stylist, your salon, or the person who did your hair growing up. Conversations are confidential. Some matters may be referred to or handled with other law firms. No settlement has been announced and no trial has been held; every case depends on its own facts. This page does not diagnose anything. Attorney Advertising.

This page is about a lawsuit — it is legal information, not medical advice, and it does not diagnose anything. Questions about your health belong with your own doctor.

Lawsuits consolidated in federal court in Chicago (MDL 3060) allege that long-term use of chemical hair relaxers is associated with uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, and related conditions. As of October 2026 the cases are in pretrial proceedings; no trial has been held and no settlement has been announced. The allegations have not been proven, and each case depends on its own facts.

Where the record is thin, this page says so rather than filling the gap. It quotes no settlement figure and decides nothing about your case.

What Africa’s Best is

Africa’s Best and Originals by Africa’s Best are hair care lines built around oils, conditioners, texturizers and relaxer products, carried in beauty supply stores nationwide. Searchers reach this page typing “Africa’s Best relaxer lawsuit.” Only chemical relaxer products are at issue in the chemical hair relaxer lawsuits — not the oils, the conditioners, or the styling products under the same name.

Most women who land here are working from the memory of an aisle in a beauty supply store, not from a label. That is the normal starting point, and it is enough to begin with.

Who makes Africa’s Best

House of Cheatham, an Atlanta-area hair care manufacturer whose brands also include Originals by Africa’s Best, Kuza, Aunt Jackie’s and Hollywood Beauty. The federal filings name two related entities: House of Cheatham LLC, and Beauty Bell Enterprises, LLC, which the docket identifies as formerly known as House of Cheatham, Inc.

Is House of Cheatham a named defendant?

Yes. Both House of Cheatham LLC and Beauty Bell Enterprises, LLC (f/k/a House of Cheatham, Inc.) appear on the first-wave defendant roster in the master docket filings (Dkt. 289) and in current joint-defense briefing (Dkt. 1901) in MDL 3060. They are original defendants, present since the litigation was consolidated on February 6, 2023 — not Second Wave companies whose discovery stay the court lifted on July 24, 2026 (Dkt. 1984).

What the complaints allege about this brand

The master long form complaint (Dkt. 106) and the short form complaint adopted by CMO 7 (Dkt. 175) plead one theory against every relaxer maker: that the products contained phthalates and other endocrine-disrupting chemicals, that the makers knew or should have known, and that the labels did not disclose it. The transfer order describes allegations that relaxer use “caused or increased the risk of developing uterine, ovarian, or breast cancer, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, or other injuries to the reproductive system” (Dkt. 291 at 2).

No order and no published study reports a disease risk figure for Africa’s Best, or for any single brand. Brand matters for identification — which makers sold what you used.

What the research says

Testing of eighteen hair products marketed to Black women detected 45 of 66 targeted endocrine-disrupting chemicals; 84 percent of those detected were not on the label (Environmental Research, 2018). A 33,947-woman NIH cohort study reported a hazard ratio of 2.55 for uterine cancer among women using straighteners more than four times a year (JNCI, 2022). In absolute terms the same study put uterine cancer risk by age 70 at 4.05 percent among frequent users and 1.64 percent among women who never used these products.

Study findings and adverse-event reports describe associations; they are not verified causation.

This page is legal information, not medical advice, and it does not diagnose anything. Questions about your health belong with your own doctor.

Do you meet the screen?

Fibroids and endometriosis claims sit outside the current federal trial track. That is the shape of the litigation, not a verdict on anyone’s case: they have not been dismissed as a category, and they are worked up and evaluated separately.

Whichever of those describes you, the rest is a conversation. Two minutes to start, and no homework — no receipts, no box, no brand list, no doctor’s letter. Deadlines are set state by state and generally run from when you knew or should have known; that is a fact to check, not a reason to hurry. You get an answer either way.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cases are handled on a contingent-fee basis: no fee unless there is a recovery. The attorney’s fee is a percentage of the gross recovery, calculated before case expenses are deducted. Case expenses are advanced by the firm and reimbursed to the firm out of the recovery only if there is a recovery. You have no liability for court costs or litigation expenses if there is no recovery, unless a court directs otherwise.