11/26/2025
It’s probably just not worth it. God probably had a pretty good idea of how you looke your best when he made you. Everyone has fun or experiments but I would say not to make this a beauty habit….60% is pretty high and I wouldn’t even take the risks of the studies I read which averaged between 23-27% higher breast cancer risk. …https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1698835734600652&id=100034227258015
I did some research on this.
Although it is true for African American women, it is not a blanket statement for all women.
I did find some interesting research documents.
Basically, stop using anything chemical on your hair.
• “Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk” (NIH press release) — https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/permanent-hair-dye-straighteners-may-increase-breast-cancer-risk 
• “Hair chemicals may increase breast cancer risk: A meta-analysis of 210 319 subjects from 14 studies” — https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0243792 
• “Does Hair Dye Use Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer? A Population-Based Case-Control Study of Finnish Women” — https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0135190 
• “Hair Dyes and Cancer Risk” (American Cancer Society overview) — https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/hair-dyes.html 
• “Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer” (International Journal of Cancer article) — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijc.32738 
