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Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk (2019)

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Re: Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk (2019)

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From a quick scan the results are a bit surprising. One should know that dying ones hair involves 2 components: 1. developer. Some liquid that breaks open your hair follicles, containing usually 3%/6%/9% hydrogen peroxide. This is the aggressive stuf. 2. hair dye. The stuff that contains the color pigments. The more you have to bleach the hair, the more aggressive the developer formulation needs to be. If you have pe…

I'm confused by your analysis. For black women, it's not just hair dye, but they have hair straightener products that have companies putting some very toxic and carcinogenic stuff into them. So black women can be putting themselves at greater risk, if they use such chemical straighteners (they do have non/less toxic options). It also indicates that black women are less likely to get breast cancer than white women, bu…

My response to this article was maybe not well formulated. I just wanted to voice that the study observed different effects related to the type of dying: semi versus permanent, dark vs light, which points to the role of the developer formulation. Unless the coloring chemicals are different between semi and permanent too.

I think we agree that we still have no idea about what has been measured here.

Re: Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk (2019)

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From a quick scan the results are a bit surprising. One should know that dying ones hair involves 2 components: 1. developer. Some liquid that breaks open your hair follicles, containing usually 3%/6%/9% hydrogen peroxide. This is the aggressive stuf. 2. hair dye. The stuff that contains the color pigments. The more you have to bleach the hair, the more aggressive the developer formulation needs to be. If you have pe…

I wonder how that shakes out for hair stylists who are exposed more. They wear gloves, so maybe they don’t actually get much skin contact, but I wonder if rates would correlate with how careful they are with ppe.

Sometimes they also apply heat, you can clearly smell it then.
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