With the information so inconclusive, it makes sense to take precautions that will protect the environment as well as yourself:

Check the safety of the ingredients in your hair coloring against the Environmental Working Group’s cosmetics database, where you can also find alternative, safer products.

Buy hair-color products that meet the higher safety standards imposed by the European Union. Look for products made by cosmetic manufacturers who have pledged to follow these standards and replace all possible hazardous materials. Henna offers another safe option – if you want to tinge your locks auburn or red.

Don’t start coloring hair until you really have to! Highlight rather than dye your entire head.

Try color sticks (available at beauty-supply stores like Ulta and Sephora) to touch up gray spots at your temples or hairline to reduce the number of times in a year you dye your hair.

Plant-based Hair Dyes include:

* Advanced Cosmetic Technologies

* EcoColors

* Advanced Cosmetic Technologies

* Naturtint.

What if you’re a guy?

Avoid any hair color products that contain lead, a neurotoxin, which is often found in men’s hair dyes.

Know that the chemicals in darker hair dyes seem to be linked to more health problems than lighter colors. If you’re going for a new you, lighten up.

And the safest alternative of all? Go grey!

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