True Roots Revealed: An Exclusive Interview with Ronnie Citron-Fink on Hair Dye Safety
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Ronnie Citron-Fink is the author of True Roots: What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me About Health and Beauty, and she is also the editorial director of Moms Clean Air Force, an environmental protection organization dedicated to improving air quality standards and combating climate change.
I dyed my hair dark, dark brown, almost black. This was the color closest to my original hair color, but over the years, the gray hairs overtook the dark.
The tipping point came when I began to work deeply in the environmental health field and started to question the health of personal care products, like hair dye.
Hair dye was the last step in cleaning up my beauty routine, and I needed to learn how to read ingredient labels even closer than I had before to figure out what ingredients were harmful.
Gray hair needs special maintenance because it seems to be more porous than dyed hair. Chlorine, pollution, smoke, certain shampoos, hair products, and the mother of all gray hair enemies: hard water, can affect the look and feel of gray hair.