Should You Dye Your Hair When Pregnant?
Everyone says to talk to your stylist and your doctor about dying your hair when you are pregnant. There is no hard and fast rule, that's why you have to talk it over with professionals, who also vary on their opinions about this sort of thing.
There are two concerns about dying your hair when pregnant:
1) The chemicals in the hair coloring product being harmful to the baby.
2) The changes of pregnancy altering the coloring process.
It is not proven that the chemicals in the hair dye will harm the baby. But to be safe, lots of people recommend not letting the dye sit on your scalp for long, since this is how it gets absorbed into your body and could get to the baby. Ways to do this are by highlighting or by applying the color using foil which keeps it away from the scalp. The other way to be extra-safe is to wait until after the first trimester, when chemicals can be of most harm to the baby.
For more details from the Organization of Teratology Information Services, click here .
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