Re: Do you still color or highlight your hair????

I have once already and have a VERY needed appointment for Hi/low lites on Saturday.

My Dr. and even "My pregnancy: week by week" said it was perfectly fine so I feel fine doing it.

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I feel like everything has "toxic" chemicals these days. There are chemicials on and in EVERYTHING. If there was a severe problem with shampoo, nail polish, or hair dye it would be discovered! What are we supposed to do...live in a bubble?!?!?!

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Re: Do you still color or highlight your hair????

Posted by wannabemom

Posted by Jen2999


ETA:
I feel like everything has "toxic" chemicals these days. There are chemicials on and in EVERYTHING. If there was a severe problem with shampoo, nail polish, or hair dye it would be discovered! What are we supposed to do...live in a bubble?!?!?!

bubble girl here.

being part of the scientific community, I should warn you that you SHOULDN'T have so much faith in the scientific community... especially the FDA. They are biased by politics and lobbyists in a MAJOR way. they conveniently avoid studying things (toluene in nailpolish), or selectively only read reports generated by chemical companies (BPA is SAFE!) when there's tons of NIH (gov't funded) UNBIASED research that contradicts that. But then they would have to ban it and duPont would no longer profit on baby bottles.

So, just becuase you don't hear something alarming, or you read another recent FDA conclusion that BPA is safe, and all of our bottled water, mayo, mustard, canned goods that are packed in BPA containers and have BPA in them are not harmful, doesn't mean it's always so. always check how they made those conclusions

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Posted by Jen2999

If my Dr. tells me it is ok to do XYZ that is good enough for me and I don't feel I need to be "warned" about my beliefs about the scientific community.

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I highlighted my hair with DS

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Posted by wannabemom

ok, I'll chime in again.

I don't know why, but things are always deemed safe until a study has proven it is not. Problem is, there are practically NO STUDIES involving hair dye or highlighting and pregnancy.

Becuase there are no studies, hair colorists and physicians reassure moms-to-be that it is 'safe'.

But in reality, NO ONE KNOWS! (No FDA or NIH studies that I can find). What if an ingredient in a certain hair dye DOES affect the baby? How would you tell? What ever the problem would be, it could be attributed to millions of different things.

Keep in mind a few things:

dyes are some of the most TOXIC compounds. in our lab, they're stored on the same 'danger shelf' as neurotoxins from cobras and other 'fun' stuff. yep, they're THAT bad. To boot, food coloring is also that bad, except it's considered safe becuase it's so diluted in the food (except for red velvet cake where they use a bottle instead of a few drops... please girls, stop eating red velvet cake!)

All hair dyes have different ingredients... they would have to test every active ingredient in your particular dye to deem it 'safe'.... it will never happen

'Natural' is not equivalent to 'safe'. there are a lot of really toxic natural substances (think mushrooms, digitalis, poison ivy, cobra venom...). So don't let a hair stylist reassure you that their natural dye is harmless. After all, they're not toxicologists

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okay now I may be showing my lack of hair color knowledge, but you say it is the dye that is really bad, but what if (and I'm not sure this is accurate) they are just using some sort of bleach product (no dye) to lift the color.

Obviously the only 100% safe way is not to touch your hair until after the baby is born, but just wondering.

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just so you guys are aware..highlights actually NEVER touch the hair or get into the scalp...thats number one..
i know alot of people that would never color, or highlight their hair..
i personally do both..

the whole BPA, PARABIN thing is starting to get to me tho, on another seperate rampage, here i go lol , and i feel like the marketing industry is totally governed by what they government decides we should be fearful of this week or next....


talk about haircolor? why dont they all pick up a bottle of Johnsons and Johnsons, or pampers wipes...and tell me all about the parabins in it?

So its been "OK" for them to sell this stuff for 4589653084 years, and NOW its bad? Oh ok, because "all natural stuff" is 50 bux more..

if anyone in my family is effected by wipes, haircolor, or BPA, ill feel terrible, and stupid down the road...

but im willing to take a chance..

<~~~~not a bubble girl, although im sure the government would love me to be, theyd make alot more off me if i was lol
i think they WANT us to be afraid...it gets me so upset...

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good points... but frankly, I think the gov't doesn't want us to be bubble girls at all! they WANT us to support du pont and all the other manufacturers... it spurs the economy.

I DO think, however, there are a lot of 'natural' companies that make their living trying to scare the poop out of people... The 'natural' people scare the cr@p out of me.. especially with their holistic and herbal supplement claims. Many of those claims are super-scary sh!t. Pharmacologically, their endorsing sick people to consume pills with natural cocktails with unknown doses and unknown pharmacological profiles. simultaneously, these people may be avoiding traditional medical care or taking the wierd pills along with prescriptions, which is even WORSE!

In the end, it's up to the individual to sort through the BS and come to her own conclusion... this is the saving grace. if you don't agree with one perspective, you simply ignore it (as you mentioned you do)....

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