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 ou eat natural foods, wear natural fibres, and wash your hair with natural shampoo. You celebrate everything organic, non-toxic, sustainable, and seasonal. And now you want to colour your hair! You grab a box of hair dye from the pharmacy. You cringe when you read the chemical concoctions in the list on the hair dye box. Now you worry that your artificially enhanced hair dye may literally be the death of you, causing at the worst cancer, or at best, serious allergies. If you are an expectant mother you can scan the studies for information about whether colouring your hair during pregnancy may harm your baby. You stress so much over your tresses, you create even more grey hairs to be cosmetically covered. What should you do? Here is help: NewLife™ Organic 3 in 1 Herbal Hair Care – 100% safe. No more bad hair days!
A study published in 2001 in the International Journal of Cancer found that hair dyes when used at least one a month had twice the risk of bladder cancer compared to nonusers. Most recently, doctors reported in the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) that allergic reactions to hair dyes had increased substantially.
Let us take a look at how over-the-counter hair dyes work and what are the harmful ingredients:
Permanent Hair Dye
•Uses bleaching agent to penetrate each strand and then change the colour from the inside out.
•Remains in your hair until it grows out.
HARMFUL INGREDIENTS IN HAIR DYES
| Ingredients |
Effect |
| Ammonia |
Dehydrating and drying. Can irritate your skin and really damage your hair. |
| p-Penylenediamine (PPD) |
Causes allergies - scaly, crusty skin and/or red bumps. |
WARNING!!!
Hair dye that touches the scalp can be absorbed into the skin and then into the bloodstream. If you're pregnant, the dye-spiked blood can penetrate the placenta and travel into your baby's bloodstream, this is especially critical during the first three months of pregnancy, when the baby's internal organs and limbs are being formard. |
