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Article: Hair dye dilemmas. (includes related article on permanent eyeliner)
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Many graying baby boomers find themselves lingering in the hair dye aisles of drugstores, wistfully eyeing boxes displaying the colors their hair once was.
Members of the 40-plus generation are not the only ones who change theft hair color. The Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association estimates that close to two out of every five American women and a smaller number of men dye their hair.
The decision to change hair color has recently become more complicated because some recent studies have linked hair coloring with an increased risk of contracting certain cancers. To make matters more confusing, other studies do not support those findings. Most hair ...