There shouldn’t be a woman or man in their baby boomer years witnessing those gray hairs creeping into their hair starting to think about the idea of looking a few years younger by using hair color. Even young adults experiment and dye their hair to change their appearance. Dying hair has always been probably one of the fastest and easiest ways to shed a few years off your appearance without spending plastic surgery, or just wanting to see what someone would look like as blond if the natural hair color is dark. Also, let’s face it, many of us are flat, pierced that we see, wants a change, and dying hair is one way to do it. But how safe are those hair dye products?
Looking in the mirror recently, I noticed those pesky grays coming in again so I have to admit I haven’t dyed my hair in a while. Unlike most women (or men) my age, I never had much gray and kept it more or less dark brown hair full color without too many gray hairs coming through. Also, when I first started hair coloring. /a>, I found it just wasn’t necessary to continue dying my hair on a monthly basis, I was more likely to only do it every six months or so.
It all started maybe fifteen years ago, when I decided, with the public program to believe that blondes have more fun, I decided to my colors naturally dark with radiant brown hair, beautiful blondes. So it turned out to be a disaster, I looked shocked, because I just don’t have an even skin tone. honor the blond hair. Within a week I quickly grabbed a dark brown a>hair color from my neighbors Walgreens and changed again. So far I’ve been whining.
Now that I have the desire to die my hair after a long time of not doing it, I am frankly very nervous. In the past, while I’ve used some of the other big name dying hair products, I’ve pretty much stuck with the good old, tried and true true Clairol’s Nice, n Easy. But the two times I dyed my hair, I had a serious reaction. Yes, I know. It is supposed to do patch test on one skin and wait 24 to 48 hours to see if one has an allergic reactionhair dyes in general to find out what could cause this reaction when I dye my hair. . Now it is always known that every popular commercial brand head contains ammonia and peroxide, and so people can have it. allergic reaction from these two chemicals, but after reading various articles it was discovered that there are several other main ingredients that can not only create severe allergic reactions, but are at high risk of carcinogens. The top list of the Cancer Prevention Coalition’s Dirty Dozen of cancer-causing hair care products was, as you can guess, Clairol’s Nice ‘n Easy. However, this is not to say that other brands are safer.
The list of ingredients is listed not only in Nice Clairol’n Easy, but in other popular hair dyes. > products read as a concoction of crazy chemical physics: Group 15, Diethanolamine (DEA), Propylene Glycol, and P-Phenylenediamine (PPD) to name a few. This drug, PPD, is probably not the only allergic reaction I have experienced, but the most dangerous to the extent that it is a high risk carcinogen. Each and every one of these drugs are carcinogens that can trigger anything from bladder cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. (2) For this reason, the greatest risk in the development of cancer in men or women are those who dye their hair in thicker shades, especially black.
Nor should it be mistaken if the dye product hair adds the words “natural” or “herbal”. for while many contain natural botanical-type ingredients, they will still contain other chemical ingredients, especially P-Phenylenediamine (PPD). Two such companies are EcoColor and Naturtint that have many botanical type ingredients, however, when you read the ingredients list, they also have PPD in it.
The bottom line is that any commercial hair dye product that is semi-permanent or permanent will have PPD, and even some non-permanent colors may also have it on its list of ingredients. This is the main chemical that cain makes the dye more permanent and will not wash off with the next shampoo. Another drug besides PPD that has a more permanent effect, as long as the hair dye lasts, of course; ammonia This drug alone is not a carcinogen, but mixed with other popular drugs found in hair dyes, that is, peroxide mixed into the cancer producing. (3)
So I started searching to find a product that was really more natural and I had heard about Surya Natural Henna Hair A dye, which has its name from the cypress in it, which is a hair dye used for centuries. I was all set to purchase this product until I read Natural Ingredients Website. This product contains Ethoxydiglycol, Methylpyrrolidone, Ethylene Glycol, Cocoamide Dea, Diethanolamine, Monoethanolamine, Olemide, Copoluner Acrylates, PPG-1 Trideceth-6, all of which are also suspected carcinogens. (4)
So what is more secure? I could completely ignore the idea of dying my hair, but like most people, I have a bit of a vanity. I want to look my best, and shed some years from my face creating a youthful look, to remove that gray hair that is dying more and more.
One thing you may want to explore is to go the total henna route and I found two such possibilities through the Henna For Hair Website and the Morocco Method Henna websites. Nor are there exactly easier ways to die your hair, as these hair dying products don’t come in nice, neat prepackaged bottles, but you have to mix the ingredients yourself. He usually mixes cypress powder in a glass or ceramic bowl with apple cider vinegar or juice. citron, until it is received. It is surprising that, since it is a plant, the color of the powder will be green, and so the paste is placed in hairs turn the hair into the desired color depending on which natural dying powders they used from red tones to the usual black. A wonderful explanation of the 56 page e-book can be found at the Henna for Hair website and describes the whole process of dying your hair cypress and also includes illustrative images.
So if it is about the safety of a chemical known as head of hair, it can either be due to severe allergic reactions by using it, or due to its potential to cause cancer from carcinogenic substances, one may wish to enter the henna method entirely… I know I will.
Further articles refer to the dangers of chemical hair dyes
http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/general/dirty_dozen.htm (1)
http://www.herbalremediesinfo.com/hair-dyes.html (2)
http://www.naturalnews.com/022575.html (3)
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-818.html
http://www.natural-living-for-women.com/natural-hair-color.html
http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/general/dirty_dozen.htm
http://www.ecocolors.net/index.cfm?pg=ProfessionalHaircolor
http://www.naturalexpressions.org/hennaforhair.html#Surya% 20Nature% 20Nature% 20Henna% 20Hair% 20Dye (III)
Information about the chemicals Ethoxydiglycol, Methylpyrrolidone, Diethanolamine (4)
http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com/ingredient.php?ingred06=702287
http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com/ingredient.php?ingred06=703913
http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com/ingredient.php?ingred06=718373
Henna Products or Websites
http://www.hennaforhair.com/
http://www.morroccomethod.com/henna.shtml#more
