OPSS: stop using a heated hairbrush and dryer

The public is being urged to exercise additional caution and to carefully examine any hot hairbrushes in their homes that are pink and black in colour (see image). The simplest method is to see if the product itself has the manufacturer’s name and address. Customers must stop using them right away and get in touch with the seller if it’s not.

Following its own tests on models it recently bought from online marketplaces, OPSS has issued this urgent public warning.

All were discovered to be non-compliant, and some of them even caught fire while being tested. OPSS has discovered additional instances of this unsafe product being sold since issuing the warning on July 9 and has taken action to have them removed from sale.

Graham Russell, the chief executive of OPSS, said:

“OPSS is issuing this further warning to the public because we believe there is real danger that these products will cause serious harm if used. OPSS has been working around the clock to take down these products since they were first identified but the multiple brand names under which they are sold means we need the public to take extra care.”