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If you have ever woken up the morning after colouring your hair to find your scalp burning, your forehead red and swollen, or a rash spreading down behind your ears toward your neck, you already know how alarming a hair...
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On the back of almost every box of hair dye sold in India, in small print that most people never read, there is an instruction to perform a patch test 48 hours before use. This instruction is not a legal...
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If you have ever had a reaction to hair dye — the burning that lingers hours after rinsing, the swollen eyelids the next morning, the raw patch of scalp that takes two weeks to heal — the first thing every...
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Hair colour is one of the most widely used cosmetic products in the world, and in India it occupies a unique cultural space — from covering premature grey in one's thirties to elaborate colour rituals before weddings. Yet hair dye...
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For millions of Indians who love the idea of coloured hair but dread the itch, burn, or rash that follows, the word "hypoallergenic" has become a kind of lifeline on a product label. The problem is that the term is...
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