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Soft & Beautiful for years? You were told the risk was scalp burns.
Strength of Nature is a named defendant in the federal litigation. 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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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.
Soft & Beautiful is made by Strength of Nature, a Godrej company, and is not a L’Oréal or SoftSheen-Carson brand. Strength of Nature is a named defendant in the federal hair relaxer litigation, MDL 3060, in Chicago.
One question decides most of it.
Did you get relaxers — perms, the white cream — at least four times a year for two years or more? Roughly is fine.
free · confidential · no receipts needed · you don’t have to remember every brand · an honest answer either way · 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.
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.
Free, Confidential Consultation — no fee unless there is a recovery
Talk to Marin & Murphy Law Firm at (888) 348-2735 — answered 24/7 — or use the confidential case review form on this page. Some matters may be referred to or handled with other law firms.
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.
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.
A correction, first
If you have read anywhere — including on an earlier version of this page — that Soft & Beautiful belongs to L’Oréal or SoftSheen-Carson, that is wrong. Soft & Beautiful is listed on Strength of Nature’s own brand portfolio alongside African Pride, Motions, TCB Naturals and Just For Me. Godrej Consumer Products acquired Strength of Nature in April 2016.
Getting the maker right is not a technicality. Naming the correct defendant is how a claim reaches the company that actually sold the product, and it is one of the first things a case review fixes. That correction is also the fair answer to the question you may be holding about a page like this one: judge it by what it is willing to get wrong in public.
What Soft & Beautiful is
Soft & Beautiful is a relaxer and hair care line sold in drugstores and beauty supply stores, including no-lye relaxer kits and the Botanicals sub-line. Searchers reach this page typing “Soft and Beautiful relaxer lawsuit” and its variants. The relaxer kits are the products at issue in the chemical hair relaxer lawsuits.
Is Strength of Nature a named defendant?
Yes. Strength of Nature, LLC, Strength of Nature Global, LLC and Godrej SON Holdings 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. Godrej SON and Strength of Nature filed the defendants’ combined motion to exclude the plaintiffs’ general-causation experts (Dkt. 1828, May 5, 2026), briefed June 16, 2026 and still undecided — the single largest open question in the litigation.
Strength of Nature Global was also a respondent in the Georgia Supreme Court’s October 2025 relaxer decision holding that that state’s ten-year statute of repose runs per unit sold rather than from the first sale in a series (Burroughs, Nos. S24G1387, S24G1388) — a ruling that revived a claim by a plaintiff diagnosed with uterine fibroids.
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 Soft & Beautiful, or for any single brand.
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?
- Used a chemical hair relaxer at least four times a year for at least two years. Every brand counts, in any combination.
- A diagnosis of uterine, ovarian, or endometrial cancer — the three core injuries the trial track runs on (Dkt. 946; Dkt. 1944).
- Records establishing the diagnosis and the timeline.
- Whether you qualify is decided on your own facts, not by a webpage.
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.
Free, Confidential Consultation — no fee unless there is a recovery
Talk to Marin & Murphy Law Firm at (888) 348-2735 — answered 24/7 — or use the confidential case review form on this page. Some matters may be referred to or handled with other law firms.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Another page told me Soft & Beautiful was a L’Oréal product. Which is right?
Strength of Nature, a Godrej company, is the owner listed on the manufacturer’s own portfolio. Pages that assign the brand to L’Oréal are repeating an error.
Does the wrong-manufacturer problem hurt claims already filed?
Defendant identification is worked out in the case, and the short form complaint lets a plaintiff name every product and every maker. It is a fixable question, not a fatal one.
I used Soft & Beautiful and other Strength of Nature brands.
Common, and it does not complicate anything. Multiple products from one maker still point to the same defendant group.
Has anyone been paid?
No hair relaxer settlement has been announced and no one has been paid. Any page that quotes a dollar figure is estimating. What decides a claim is the diagnosis, the use history and the state’s law — not a range on a webpage.
What does a review cost?
Nothing up front. It is a free, confidential consultation, and there is no fee unless there is a recovery. Some matters may be referred to or handled with other law firms. 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.
Sources
- Strength of Nature brand portfolio, strengthofnature.com (pulled Aug. 25, 2026).
- Godrej Consumer Products acquisition of Strength of Nature (Apr. 1, 2016).
- First-wave defendant roster, In re Hair Relaxer Mktg., Sales Practices & Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 3060 (N.D. Ill.), Dkts. 289, 1901.
- Defendants’ combined Rule 702 motion on general causation, Dkt. 1828 (May 5, 2026); briefing complete June 16, 2026 (Dkt. 1778); hearing to be set (Dkt. 1881).
- JPML Transfer Order quoted at Dkt. 291 at 2 (Nov. 13, 2023).
- Master Long Form Complaint, Dkt. 106 (May 15, 2023); CMO 7, Dkt. 175.
- Mem. Op. & Order on core injuries, Dkt. 946 (Nov. 13, 2024); Dkt. 1944 (June 22, 2026).
- Burroughs v. Strength of Nature Global, LLC; Burroughs v. L’Oreal USA, Inc., Nos. S24G1387, S24G1388 (Ga. Oct. 15, 2025).
- “Use of Straighteners and Other Hair Products and Incident Uterine Cancer,” JNCI 2022;114(12):1636–1645.
- “Measurements of Endocrine Disrupting and Asthma-Associated Chemicals in Hair Products Used by Black Women,” Environmental Research 2018.
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.
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