Nontoxic Hair-Coloring

Hair Dye Alternatives

Hair coloring is nice for the hair and can enhance the looks of your hair but they also do contain an ingredient called Ammonium thioglycolate that can penetrate your scalp and has been linked to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Now the manufacturers can remove carcinogenic from their products but then add other twenty different harmful chemicals that is needed to improve the quality of their products without potential human carcinogen; but this can still be harmful to our health. It takes four years or more to test a new chemical for safety before the FDA can approve it and during this waiting time, it is said that some manufactures have been found guilty of taking advantage of this time. Unfortunately, the FDA has no jurisdiction over regulation of hair dyes, which could be mutagenic and suspected human carcinogens because of the 1938 law still in effect that exempts these products from government regulation to protect entire hair-dye industry in business.

Hair dyes are not always tested for safety. Hair-dye products may contain coal-tar dyes, ammonia, detergents, hydrogen peroxide, and Lead and many hair-dye chemicals, which can penetrate the scalp and enter the bloodstream.  It is possible that the use of toxic hair dyes by women over fifty years can increase the risk for breast cancer.

For safety, women who are pregnant or of child bearing age or breast feeding should avoid permanent wave perms and toxic hair coloring products. Because permanent wave products contain Ammonium thioglycolate which is one of the most hazardous ingredients; they can pose health risk like cause skin rashes on your hands and scalp, redness, swelling, and hemorrhage under your skin. Because the scalp is very porous, this substance can easily be carried into the bloodstream. In addition, permanent waves smell very strongly of ammonia, which can cause breathing difficulties and coughing.

                                              Alternative Solution

Try pure Henna without metallic bases, henna enhancer or chemical dye; women have used pure henna and other plant-based materials for hair coloring centuries before chemical dyes were invented. Although henna will not change the color of your hair permanently; they can highlight and enrich your hair color in a way chemical dye do not compare.  Find out more about Henna

You can try Herbavita Vegetal color and Herbatint made from herbal formulas that contain no ammonia.

If you want to perm your hair, try plant-based hair relaxer called curlaway or use less toxic ammonia-free Vitawave perms available in natural-food stores, Allergy relief shop, iherb and Amazon.

Also try Logona USA Hair colors, they contain organically grown henna plus finely ground herbs, roots, leaves, seeds, fruits, wood, and bark gathered from the wild. Logona hair colors helps coat each strand of hair with a protective film that both strengthens the hair and creates a unique color for your hair. Logona hair color contain nettle extracts, vegetable oils and herbal extracts from certified organically grown or wild crafted plants. Logona products contain no synthetic preservatives or colors.

 Other organic Hair dye products you can find at Amazon
  

Herbatint

Light Mountain

Surya Henna

Jamila Henna Powder

Godrej Nupur MehendiPowder 9 Herbs Blend

Naturcolor

Rainbow Henna

Morrocco Method Simply pure Henna

                         

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Author:
Onyinye A is a freelance writer who specializes in nontoxic self improvement, green & Eco-friendly living, nontoxic lifestyle (preventing cancer, illness and toxicity) and everything related to organic living. Her work has been published by nontoxiclifestyle.org, Ezine.com, and other online and print publications.