Keeping your hair young and vibrant

adolescent girlsOrganic, natural hairdressing is the new way to keep your hair beautiful and natural. Using hair dyes and treatments full of chemicals can lead to damaged wiry hair that no longer looks beautiful as women age. In addition, hair dyes have been cited as a cancer risk with some research showing a slight increase to those exposed to to them, particularly in hairdressers. This is because the chemicals can go through the pores in the scalp and into the bloodstream, and of course they may cause allergic reactions.

So what can you do? Increasingly there are hairdressers that use natural plant-based colour for the hair and other products such as shampoo and conditioner. Some hairdresser chains market themselves as using plant-based products, but actually include ammonia to enable the colour to fix.

Around the country a few organic natural hairdressers have sprung up who do use natural organic herbs, roots and flowers. Popular ingredients are henna, walnut, chamomile, turmeric, hibiscus, rhubarb and indigo.

GA Salons are in (London) Notting Hill, Wimbledon, London Bridge and Chelsea: https://gennarodellaquila.co.uk/

The Organic Hairdresser is in Kingston, Surrey: http://kingstonnaturalhealth.com/organic-hairdresser/