A recent Assembly bill would require shampoo assistants to have at least 500 hours professional training and obtain a license. A bill recently proposed by several state Assemblymembers requires ...

A state bureaucrat wants to mandate 500 hours of training for anyone who shampoos hair at a beauty salon or barbershop — but something about her push for the bizarre new requirement just doesn’t wash.

Over the last few years, I’ve learned that I’m allergic to a lot of things, many of which are ingredients in fancy beauty products. I’d spent years cycling through increasingly expensive serums and ...