https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/12/11/hair-dyes-and-chemical-straighteners-linked-to-breast-cancer.aspxThere are nearly 13,000 chemicals found in personal care products sold in the U.S., and only 10% have been tested for safety. Considering that fact, it shouldn&rsquo;t come as a huge surprise that a recent study linked permanent hair dyes and chemicalenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/12/11/hair-dyes-and-chemical-straighteners-linked-to-breast-cancer.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#97438212/12/2019 3:22:46 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:974382gabbyfemale<p>I see teenage girls and women have their hair colored when their original color looked so much better. &nbsp;This whole idea that one must change their physical appearance with dangerous chemicals to feel beautiful saddens me.</p> https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/12/11/hair-dyes-and-chemical-straighteners-linked-to-breast-cancer.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#97420712/11/2019 2:23:33 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:974207Almond<p>Cause and effect. &nbsp;The dye is prob not good for a person. &nbsp;I understand modern products are much less toxic than those used in the past. &nbsp;However, a person who frequents a beauty salon for hair coloring may also have other lifestyle risk factors. &nbsp;One may be simply the affluence to afford beauty treatments and junk food. &nbsp;</p> <p>In the laboratory, you can isolate and test for a single variable. &nbsp;However, it is much more complex in real life with precursors, co-factors, interrelated factors, predisposition for whatever reason, environmental factors, etc. &nbsp;</p> <p>When I was young, many of the women I worked with got breast cancer. &nbsp;They theorized that it had something to do with the building we worked in. &nbsp;I realized that we all had the same exposures at the same ages and the cancer grew at a rate that might be expected for our age group before becoming diagnosed. &nbsp;We were at high risk because we had all been exposed to environmental &nbsp;factors during infancy which was a critical time. It did not have to do with where we worked, but the fact we were in the same age group and had all been born in the area. &nbsp;Older people and men suffered different kinds of cancer. &nbsp;It took years for the cancer to grow to a stage where it could be diagnosed, so we did not yet know the effect on those younger than us.</p>