Does hair dye cause hair loss?

Most people start getting gray hair around the age of 35. Around 40 many people, especially women start dying their hair to cover up the gray hair. However, many younger women also dye their hair just to get a different color. But does hair dye really cause hair loss? Yes, it can cause hair loss. Especially if you use it for many years.

Normally people lose roughly 100 hairs from their head every day and the average scalp contains around 100,000 hairs. That hair loss 0.1% of the hair an average person has. But the lost hair is replaced by new ones. You get a problem when the new ones stop growing. So hair loss itself is not a problem, the issues lies in your body’s failure to produce new hair.

The best way to void hair loss is not to do anything that could harm the growth of new hair. That includes unnecessary hair dyes.

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