Organic or All Natural hair dye?

What are the positives, negatives to it? I know they're not ALL natural, but that's the best way for me to describe them on here. I really dislike chemicals, and every time I dye my hair I feel gross for using all those chemicals on my head. I'm keeping my hair a dark brown color.

Also, any suggestions for the best brand?

Organic or All Natural hair dye?

Some of the brands that are noteworthy are:

Ecocolors - While it does contain small amounts of ammonia and peroxide these amounts are minimum compared to other brands. This brand contains soy, flax, and rosemary extract all of which work to condition the hair, and scent it without the scent of harsh chemicals.

Herbatint - One of the few brands that is ammonia free, and also permanent. At the same time it does use p-Phenylenediamine and peroxide in it's mixture, but the amounts are low compared to other brands. The great thing about this one is that it's biodegradable.

Naturcolor and Vegetel are great brands if you do not want long term color treatment. Unfortunately they only last a few washings each.

One of the best brands is Rainbow Henna. Their products are 100% organic and they make just about every color that you can imagine. The packaging and set up is non traditional compared to what you might be used to from regular hair dye kits.

If you are looking for the best organic kit, then go with Light Mountain henna kit, it will remind you of the home dying kits, but is much better for you to use.

Another good brand is Tocco Magico but you may only be able to find that at salon stores.

Most of these can be purchased at health food stores and drug stores.

Organic or All Natural hair dye?

Organic is more earth friendly. Organic means that the ingredients were made or grown without the use of synthetic pestisides, fertilizer, ect.

Organic or All Natural hair dye?

Why dye at all?

Organic or All Natural hair dye?

Organic:

I am going to explain to you the very flip side of organic:

The more people that buy organic - the more we stand to devastate the earth. Thats right. Organic only works now because it depends directly and indirectly on inputs from conventional farming (more on that).

Every piece of fertile soil has a limited "store" of nutrients (in some cases they are re-generated but at a much slower rate than they can be removed form harvesting). Each organic food harvest depletes this store of nutrients. Even if the farmer ploughs back in the remains - there is still a net loss. The current practice is to replace this estimated loss of nutrients with manure - from conventional farms.

This means one of two things: Seeing as it's manure, the nutrient quantities are unknown by the organic farmer so when he applies the manure he may either over apply or underapply the manure.

If he under applies - then the harvest will go down and the soil has been depleted further. If he over applies then soluble nutrients such as nitrate get washed out and end up in rivers or lakes causing eutrophication.

The current system works because organic farms are in the minority and rely on inputs form the much more efficient conventional farms - organic farms can get away with not using pesticides at the moment because tehy are basically islands surrounded by pesticide using farms. If everything went organic - trust me that wouldn't be the case.

To summarise: Organic farming would work in a world where all outputs were returned to the soil in which they were grown - i.e if all the excrement from a harvest was returned to the field it came from. Seeing as however excrement ends up in a centralised sewer the output are still being replaced by inputs from conventional farms.

Finally - lets all think about it: civilisation has been using organic food for centuries, (in those days there was no centralised sewer so inputs were returned close to the area they were harvested). However after the incredible population explosion over the last century, these methods just couldn't keep up anymore - conventional farming was born, and it manages to feed the world, yes there were problems to begin with but now there are very strict controls over pesticide and fertliser use.

The bottom line: Use any non-organic hair dye, save yourself money and help keep the planet in one piece!