Thursday, March 28, 2013

Bad Side of Dying Your Hair

Dying hair is become the alternative for you to have a wanted hair color. Almost 50% of American people are dying their hair. There are many hairs coloring product sold on market nowadays. But all of them contain chemical substances that can damage your hair. It can cause a small until dangerous damage for your hair. Some research said that dying your hair cans also threating your health.

Dying Your Hair

Dying will make your hair dry. You will have a split end hairs. This is of course could be a problem if you want to have a long hair. The worst effect shows by permanent color and bleaches hair. Semi-permanent hair dying will shows this bad effect if you do it regularly. Unfortunatelythe easiest thing to do for your hair is not to dye it. But there are some things to reduce the effect. Use a moisturize shampoo and conditioner every time you wash our hair. And have a hair mask treatment every once a week.

Dying your hair also need extra attention. Never dye your hair without using latex gloves. The gloves will protect your skin form chemical substances from hairs color product. The product will stick in your skin for a long time. A dark nails and skin of course not a good look for you. The chemical substance from the product can caused an allergic reaction to your skin too.  Use latex gloves to protect your skin during the dying process. And also use towel to cover your neck.  Towel will prevent the dye into your neck and cloth.

Some people will have an allergic reaction after dying their hair. Chemical substance in the product can cause an allergic at the scalp. If it accidently sticks on your face, it can cause your face become irritated. In some case the face will get swollen and reddish. Allergic skin cause by hair dye shows some signs. Skin irritation or redness is the most common case. Lumps on back or neck, swollen, and itchy on skin are other signs. In same case, it can cause headache or even stomachache. There are thing you can do to test your hair color product for prevent allergic reaction. Put tiny amount of your product. Put it on your neck or behind your ears. Wait for few hours. If your skin shows some signs like reddish or swallow, don’t use your product. Wash your skin with cold water immediately. That shows that your skin can’t handle the chemical substance on your product. Hair color product will last for a long time on your scalp and hair. So make sure use the product that safe for you. A long term scalp and skin problem can cause a more dangerous health problem.

A several studies said that people who dye their hair have more risk to have asthma than people who don’t. Long term exposure by chemical substance and bleaching can cause an occupational asthma. Another studies also said that people who dye their hair have a big chance of having cancer. This subject is still remains controversial, but the chemical exposures from the product shown can effects on our DNA system. A damage DNA system means big risk of cancer.