By showing hands, can everyone in the class tell that they dye their hair or not? It’s a common thing many people do dye their hair with many different reasons of their own. Nowadays, it has become a very trending issue among youngsters as they claim that by dyeing their hair can be very fashionable in order to look outstanding and even some of them said hair-dyes can boost their confidence-level. But do they really know that hair-dyes can harm not only your hair follicles but also your entire body which can lead to death? Before you dye your hair, have you ever think of the bad effects that may cause you?
This is the problem that we should aware before we start doing it without any research. And yes, there are negative effects of hair-dyes and I am standing here today to inform you of the three major downsides to dyeing you hair. Firstly are the physical reactions then those chronic diseases may affect you and lastly the psychological effects of hair-dyes. Before we start, do you know what hair-dye is? As in Wikipedia, hair dyeing is the practice of changing the colour of hair which is an ancient art, involves treatment of the hair with various chemical compounds.
Let’s begin with the first point which is hair-dyeing can lead to physical reactions toward us because one of the chemicals used in hair-dyes is p-Phenylenediamine (PPD). This chemical is used in 99 percents of all hair-dye products and this chemical is a white solid, but samples can be darkening due to air oxidation. The most dangerous physical reaction I was talking about is allergy. The main cause implicated in hair dye allergies, whether on the scalp, face, neck, back or hands, is a substance commonly known as PPD. The most common symptoms is an itchy scalp or burning of the scalp within a short period of time after applying the dye.
Sometimes symptoms may develop days or weeks after the hair dye treatment. According to Vincent Crump of the Auckland Allergy Clinic, continuous use of hair dye on hair can elevate the chances of a person to a severe allergic reaction. He says “People need to be aware if you are going to colour your hair-especially if it’s a permanent dye that you run that risk. ” This problem is dangerous and should be taken seriously because maybe some of us might have an allergic reaction towards this chemical, PPD which can lead us to death.
Moving on to the next physical reactions you might get because of the use of hair-dyes are hair loss and hair-breakage. It can happen when the exposure of the chemicals to your hair is too much that will results in dry, rough, and fragile hair. In extreme cases, the hair can be so damaged that it breaks off entirely. This issue is getting more serious and I would like to stress that hair-dye is highly dangerous because it could lead to chronic diseases as it linked to the development of cancer and not to forget asthma.
I know it may sound a bit cliche but you probably will face with death and this issue cannot be taken easily. Over 5,000 different chemicals are used in hair dye products, some of which are reported to be carcinogenic (cancer-causing) in animals and humans but somehow they have reduce the number of chemicals in hair-dyes but these chemicals are to set colour into hair which could harm ones health because the chemicals used are abrasive and damaging such as ammonia, peroxide, tar and whatnot.
These chemicals can lead to the development of cancer such as bladder cancer, blood cancer and even breast cancer. It depends on how often you use hair-dyes as ones who regularly colour their hair using hair-dyes may be putting themselves at risk of having bladder cancer. Darker color is at greater risk because darker colours are formed by using higher concentrations of chemicals. Furthermore, hair-dyes also can cause asthma. In this case, hairstylist or the one who applies the colour are at risk of developing asthma. Long term exposure of the chemicals can lead to asthma problem.
Last but not least, the psychological effects of hair-dyes. What can I say here is that when you colour your hair, you will not know what the colour of your hair will turn out to be. What if the result may not bring satisfaction to you? You may be colour your hair again to other colour, and it turned out to happen the same thing over and over again and lastly will result hair damages because of the excessive use of hair-dyes. For your information, once you dye your hair, you can never reverse back to your original hair colour.
This can make you frustrated thus, distracted to face people around you. You may feel down and this absolutely can affect your confidence level to do anything in your everyday life which affects your mental. Besides that, most of us already knew the effects of the hair dyes, somehow they still insisting to take the risk. But after that, they might be overly worried when think about the diseases may affect their health. Hopefully now it is clear that dyeing your hair an unnatural color is more than just a risk.
I would like to inform you again that we cannot simply just dye our hair without any research or knowing the effects after hair-dyeing. It can be a tragedy for yourself as it gives dangerous physical reactions, can link to chronic diseases and lastly can affect your psychological health. It is never advisable to play with your health for the sake of being looked beautiful and attractive. For your information, we can go for other natural products like henna or can use branded hair products for your hair that can make your hair look great and have not side effects at the same time.
