Snopes confirmed
http://www.snopes.
com/medical/toxins/hairband.asp
Be cautious of hair bands at open markets around the city too – they are probably from China since they are purchased in bulk very very cheap !!!!
Take a good look before buying hair bands in future – specially like the following kind…..
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These Hair bands were made from used condoms and threads. That was so disgusting, I would not want to use them!!
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BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday
In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said.
'These cheap and colorful rubber bands and hair ties sell well . threatening the health of local people,' it said.
Despite being recycled, the hair bands could still contain bacteria and viruses, it said.
'People could be infected with AIDS, (genital) warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while waving their hair into plaits or buns,' the paper quoted a local dermatologist who gave only his surname, Dong, as saying. A bag of ten of the recycled bands sells for just 25 s en (three cents), much cheaper than others on the market, accounting for their popularity, the paper said.
A government official was quoted as saying recycling condoms was illegal. China 's manufacturing industry has been repeatedly tarnished this year by a string of scandals involving shoddy or dangerous goods made for both domestic and foreign markets.
In response, it launched a public relations blitz this summer aimed at playing up efforts to strengthen monitoring systems.
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Check your kids hair bands and make sure they do not put them in their mouth while trying to play or tie their hair ↓
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| Name: mother2five | Date: Aug 27th, 2008 2:33 PM |
OMFG THAT IS F'ING GROSS!!!!!!!!!
I actually really hate head bands my girls have a few reg. hard head bands and a few of the fabric kind thats popular right now, but they are not the plastic kind that god!
What do they have a like a used condom recycling site???? LOL...........PAPER HERE, PLASTIC HERE, GLASS HERE , AND USED CONDOMS HERE!!!! Next they'll use vomit to remake food I suppose???? ↑ |
| Name: Opheiliamath | Date: Aug 27th, 2008 2:54 PM |
Pretty gross and disgusting.
But I don't buy thoses hair ties, so I'm good! I usually buy the all black ones.
And I love head bands, espically now since I cut my hair I'm at Clairs every other Friday buying a new headbands, lol. ↑ |
| Name: DaisyUK-US | Date: Aug 29th, 2008 3:05 PM |
that website is hoax website. Think about it, we take paper, plastic, glass, tins, etc to be recycled, not condoms. we don't even want to touch them to dispose of them.
Just look at the other crap on that site, anything to get a stir out of people and there is always one who belives it and passes it on and then it's a monster of a tale. ↑ |
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