If you’re looking at an invasion of grey hairs and/or dark roots, you might well be tempted to get out the hair dye. An estimated 53% of women in the UK – and an increasing number of men – use hair dye at home, according to Mintel. Of those, 70% choose permanent hair colour, which raises the most concern in terms of cancer risk.
Should you really be worried? It’s a confusing area so I want to decode it and give you the headlines.
There are three main types of hair dye:
However buoyant we are usually, the current climate is triggering a tsunami of anxiety and depression, which affects people to varying degrees of intensity. Many of us don’t want to take medication – probably don’t even go to our doctor – and are looking around for alternative ways of calming our fearful brains.
Here at Beauty Bible, we love aromatherapy and everything it does for us – mind, body and soul. Geraldine Howard, the late joint founder of Aromatherapy Associates, was a dear friend and a great influence on us, as well as on many aromatherapists then and now. One of these is Emily Muffett, who to our delight has reappeared in our lives after an absence of several years.
I’m on my annual summer mission to persuade everyone to trouser up for tramps in the long grass whether you’re in country fields or urban parks. I wrote this feature last year but the message is exactly the same again and will be in the years to come. So, as I take off for a few days’ rambling, I’m saying it all over again – and really, really hoping that everyone, every age, takes notice!