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Article: Hair to dye for: natural alternatives to toxic coloring agents. (Consumer News).
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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I was born to be a redhead, but that's not the color I got. The first time my hair dried to the glorious shade of red on the box of dye, I was hooked. I'm not alone: more than 50 million women in America dye their hair on a regular basis, from those covering gray to those who like to highlight or frost. And in case you hadn't noticed, men are no longer immune to this particular vanity or the potential risks associated with it.
It has been years since I banished my mousy brown hair. I hadn't really thought about the chemicals I routinely doused my scalp with until a friend of mine cancelled our dinner plans due to a "hair emergency" that was more worrisome than a ...