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Non toxic hair dyes?
  • maryamelia
    I work as a hairdresser, and after a days work, i feel stuffed up and awful for at least 24 hours, and longer. i would like to change to a non toxic line of hair color. Could anyone recommend a line that has worked for them that is non toxic and ppd free? Thanking you in anticipation. Mary.
  • Cparkinson
    hello everyone,
    I know what you mean, my sister had a salon in her home and she always had a sinus infection! I used to work in a health food store and they had a great line called "Herbatint" and here is the company link : [L=bioforcecanada]http://www.avogel.ca/en/product-finder/herbavita/index.php/[/L] If that won't work, copy and past or just google for "bioforce canada" and you will find them. It is very low peroxide and people loved it.

    I hope that will help you, the others are very toxic-----you may want to buy a good antioxidant supplement as well.

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  • Janis
    Henna and indigo are both pretty good. The palette is somewhat limited, but can be stretched with bleach and cassia, which gives a golden tone.

    As long as you get the pure stuff that's not been adulterated with metallic salts, you should be fine. Pure body-art quality (BAQ) stuff is fine. If you are sensitive and have been made more sensitive by repeated exposure to the serious PPD stuff, you have have problems, but you may find yourself reacting with allergies to a lot of otherwise harmless things if you've become very sensitive from PPD exposure.

    Henna in general is fairly low-impact, though. It's just chopped-up, goopy plant bits. Nice conditioning, nice color if you like the auburn palette. Indigo can cool it off or be used with it to give brown or black.
  • sallyloudmouth
    Naturtint is what I use from Whole Foods. It lasts as long as anything else, and costs the same amount. Great color selection!
  • Dreniva
    Kool-aid is non-toxic.
  • lilia
    The only PPD free colors are going to be Henna and kool-aid as mentioned - but usually it's not the PPD causing sinus problems, it's the Ammonia.
    I have severe allergies and cannot use Ammoniated color. There are two companies that produce professional color lines which don't use ammonia - Organic Color Systems (which is out of Florida, cannot be purchased at beauty supply shops, needs heat to proccess and has the most incredible bleach I've ever used), and Farouk, which makes two seperate non-ammoniated lines. The first line is called Bioglitz (creme) or Biosilk (liquid) - this was my favorite line but the developers are a bit different so it takes some getting used to, then they came out with a second line called CHI (because most hairdressers know the CHI styling tools) - It's all creme based and uses traditional 10-40 volume. I Like the High lift and Grey coverage series for the CHI, but not the natural line because it has a nasty green cast.

    I haven't used Herbatint, but it's formulation is similar to Bioglitz/Biosilk or Organic Color Systems - and it's Not a professional line either so wouldn't do well at a salon.
    Good Luck.
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