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Health & beauty  

Hair dyes

Updated: 06 May 2008
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Last year more than 1.8 million hair colouring products were taken home. Should we worry about the chemicals we're using to colour our hair?

To find out what's in the products we're using, we bought nine permanent hair dyes covering the spectrum from blonde to black. We looked at the ingredients - and found most contained substances with the potential to cause severe allergic reactions.

Highlights of this report

Why we're concerned

Our regulations aren't keeping up to date Read more

What we found

A closer look at the ingredients disclosed Read more

Products compared

Extreme and strong sensitisers are in many of the products Read more

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