Hair coloring as a risk factor?

Vincera · Regular Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 44 Location: USA

What people know about hair coloring as a risk factor?
Does anybody know about someone who got cancer and also has been doing hair coloring regularly for years?
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jamessmith · New User Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

I remember when I visited my 70-year-old aunt, who still looks amazing, and I asked her what the secret was to looking young. She said "Color your hair."

Since then I've noticed that it's true. Older women who color their hair seem to look about 10 years younger than they actually are.

If you had asked me 10 years ago if I would ever get highlights, I would have told you that I would never color my hair. A friend's mother always insisted that she thought I did but I just had natural blond summer highlights. That all changed after having kids. That's when the dirty blond hair became my prominent color. It doesn't suit me.

I started getting highlights about 3 or 4 years ago. I always hated the smell of the coloring. I know it's not good for me or the hair stylist. I've asked several times about whether there were any natural options and I had always been told no, but I knew there had to be some other options.

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Vincera · Regular Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 44 Location: USA

Hi jamessmith and welcome to the forum.

I appreciate your opinion on hair coloring, but the question was not just about hair coloring, but rather what people know of hair coloring as something that may cause cancer. The fact that many people have used it and never got sick doesn't mean that it's 100% safe. Many people smoke cigarettes and they are fine, but....
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bill5 · Regular Joined: 15 Nov 2009 Posts: 20

[quote="Vincera"]The fact that many people have used it and never got sick doesn't mean that it's 100% safe. Many people smoke cigarettes and they are fine, but....[/quote]
No offense, but that's not really a valid comparison. Cigs have been proven beyond any reasonable doubt many times over to increase one's chances for cancer significantly.

Further, pretty much all products on the market are tested in a wide variety of ways. I think it's a safe bet that if there was any real chance of hair coloring increasing your risk of cancer, you would have heard about it by now. There are of course no absolute guarantees either way, but we're talking probabilties here.....

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