What Types of Toxins are Found in Hair Dye?
Plenty.
Keep in mind that hair dyes are classified as a personal care product, and the government
doesn't require any mandatory testing for these products before they hit store shelves. So
literally anything goes.
The Environmental Working Group has ranked 456 hair colors in their Skin Deep cosmetics
database, and roughly 400 of them are considered high hazard because they contain toxins
linked to:
Cancer
Developmentive and reproductive toxicity
Neurotoxicity
Immunotoxicity and organ toxicity
Allergies and irritation of the eyes, skin or lungs