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Article: Personal use of hair dyes and hematolymphopoietic malignancies.(Author abstract)
- Article from:
- Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
- Author:
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Hair-dyeing products are known to contain chemicals, in particular aromatic amines and related nitro compounds, that have been found to be mutagenic or carcinogenic in experimental animals. (1-3)
Hair dyes are classified, according to the permanence of the effects, as follows: permanent (primarily aromatic amines and aminophenols with hydrogen peroxide), otherwise known as oxidation dyes; semipermanent (direct dyes, generally nitro derivatives of phenylenediamines or aminophenols, with a selected number of azo dyes and aminoanthraquinone dyes), which are hair-coloring products that last through 6 to 12 washings and do not involve the use of an oxidating agent in ...