Hair Dye and Allergy to Beauty Products

As a result of the ladies fashion of having their hair dyed, my number of patients for hair dye allergy has grown exponentially; I probably have a few hundreds of such patients.

The reason of hair dye allergy is basically due to the chemicals to make the hair dye. There are very few cases of such allergy when using henna hair dyes but which young lady (or man) wants to use henna dyes these days?

As a result, I literally have hundreds of antidotes each for a particular patient. Don't forget that hair dyes remains on your head for a period of months. However, most hair dye allergy do not manifeast immediately. Indeed, most of them start to cause itchy rash around the face and neck only a few months later.

Cosmetics (Beauty products) are also a major problem causing rash around the face and it may not be itchy but present as acne-like lesions. Look at your cosmetic bottle and see how many chemicals are shown as ingredients (and note that the company does not need to show all the ingredients!). I find the major problem of cosmetic allrgy arises when one changes ones cosmetic to another type, typically someone one who want to upgrade to more expensive ones.

One example is a patient, as a ressult of her husband doing very well, decided to change to a very expensive brand. Unfortunately she became sensitive to these and have to give up and I advised her to go back to her old range.

Lesson: DONT CHANGE YOUR COSMETICS AND HAIR OR SKIN PRODUCTS IF THEY ARE SERVING YOU WELL

My learning continues...