The link between hair dye and cancer
The fact that hairdressers have the highest rate of breast cancer of any profession prompted researchers to study the link between hair dye and cancer. A number of different studies found that women who use hair dye at least once a month are twice as likely to develop bladder cancer as those who do not. The risk triples when women use hair dye regularly for 15 or more years. These risks are the same regardless whether the women use permanent, semi-permanent, or rinse applications. The chemicals contained in commercial hair dye products penetrate the scalp and enter the blood stream. The kidneys filter them out and pass them into the urinary bladder where they damage the cells of the bladder, leading to repeated bladder infections and cell mutation.
To minimize the harm from hair dyes, make certain to drink enough water each day (6-8 glasses), cleanse your kidneys and the liver on a regular basis (see directions in The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush), choose foiling and highlights, natural plant-based Henna dyes, or plant-based dyes, such as from Aveda and Herbatint.
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I am middleaged and while I am about 80% grey I will not dye my hair. I never have, never will, except for trying it once when I was 18, under pressure from a "friend". While I think that dying one's hair is unhealthful, as you have described, that's not my main reason.
I just ask: what is wrong with grey hair? Were you aware that women dye their hair because they want to look "younger" than they really are? Is it bad to look your age and if so, why? Are we supposed to be trying to look "sexy" for men all the time, or what? I see that you have gone grey and it doesn't appear to me that you are ugly for it. You look just fine the way you are - and so do I.
My grandmother and most of her peers never dyed their hair, not one of them. From my point of view, hiding your grey spells insecurity and fear of old age. Really! Are those attractive qualities, qualities that men are looking for? It would seem that way, I sure hope not.
Thank you.
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I completely agree with you. Besides, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and one can be beautiful and attractive at any age; it all depends on who is looking. Personally, I feel that a grey beard and grey hair suits me, and I wouldn’t want to change it to back to black. I loved every age I have been, but at nearly 57 years young, I have never lived more fully than now. Black is beautiful, blond is beautiful, white is beautiful, red is beautiful ~ at least they are to me.
Some might disagree, which is fine with me. We all have to live with ourselves. How we feel inside pretty much determines our quality of life and how we experience this world.
Warmly, Andreas
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I agree with both of you. I inherited premature grey hair from my mother. And I am so glad that I stayed with my conviction that hair dyes are harmful and I have never used chemical dyes. I used henna sometimes.
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