Color Me Natural
Date: January 6, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
You color job may be a passing phase but the chemical damage done - to your beautiful self and the environment - is one bad dye job that will never rinse out. If changing your mane is the name of your game, rest assured that you don’t have to sacrifice true color in order to get a regimen free of nasties like PPD (a known carcinogen) or ammonia - do you really want to subject your tresses to the awful cleaner originally used to scrub toilets? (In case you didn’t get the memo, check out our preferred cleaning products to avoid ammonia entirely.)
ACT (Advanced Cosmetic Technologies) Hair Coloring Kits contain 100% plant-based dyes and all of their ingredients are checked against toxicological data to ensure safety (read: they use the Environmental Working Group’s Cosmetic Database). The products are never tested on animals and because they are made with renewable and sustainable plant-based ingredients (rather than synthetic ones like most hair colorants), the line has an ultra-low environmental impact. Coloring Kits come packaged in FSC-certified cartons printed with vegetable inks from a manufacturing plant that is fueled by wind power.
Toxic tresses be gone, the natural answer is blowing in the wind!
Comments
Angelica
Date: January 6th, 2010 at 8:32 am
This sounds wonderful in terms of impact, but how well does it work?
caitlin
Date: January 6th, 2010 at 11:34 am
I personally tested the dye and loved the results! I used the 7GD (Dark Golden Blonde) kit: http://ow.ly/Tpjz The color is rich and consistent and left my hair feeling soft and shiny. As always, when a product is featured on ecofabulous it has been tested and reviewed and found to be both “eco” and “fabulous.” You can check out our stringent editorial criteria here: http://www.ecofabulous.com/criteria/
MJ's Herbals
Date: January 12th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Thank you for this info! We like to pass healthy tips on to our customers and FB fans. Most people don’t think about the fact that most hair dye has chemicals and solvents that absorb into the scalp and cause health problems….
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