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    True Roots: What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me about Health and Beauty
    True Roots: What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me about Health and Beauty
    True Roots: What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me about Health and Beauty
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    True Roots: What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me about Health and Beauty

    By Ronnie Citron-Fink

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    Like 75% of American women, Ronnie Citron-Fink dyed her hair, visiting the salon every few weeks to hide gray roots in her signature dark brown mane. She wanted to look attractive, professional, young. Yet as a journalist covering health and the environment, she knew something wasn’t right. All those unpronounceable chemical names on the back of the hair dye box were far from natural. Were her recurring headaches and allergies telltale signs that the dye offered the illusion of health, all the while undermining it?

    So after twenty-five years of coloring, Ronnie took a leap and decided to ditch the dye. Suddenly everyone, from friends and family to rank strangers, seemed to have questions about her hair. How’d you do it? Are you doing that on purpose? Are you OK? Armed with a mantra that explained her reasons for going gray—the upkeep, the cost, the chemicals—Ronnie started to ask her own questions.

    What are the risks of coloring? Why are hair dye companies allowed to use chemicals that may be harmful? Are there safer alternatives? Maybe most importantly, why do women feel compelled to color? Will I still feel like me when I have gray hair?

    True Roots follows Ronnie’s journey from dark dyes to a silver crown of glory, from fear of aging to embracing natural beauty. Along the way, readers will learn how to protect themselves, whether by transitioning to their natural color or switching to safer products. Like Ronnie, women of all ages can discover their own hair story, one built on individuality, health, and truth.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateJun 4, 2019
    ISBN9781610919432
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    Ronnie Citron-Fink

    Ronnie Citron-Fink is the editorial director for the Environmental Defense Fund’s Moms Clean Air Force. She is a contributor to A Glorious Freedom: On Being a Woman, Getting Older, and Living an Extraordinary Life, edited by Lisa Congdon, and has written for USA Today, In Style, and Huffington Post, among other publications. Yahoo named Ronnie one of the “Top 10 Living Green Experts.”

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      True Roots - Ronnie Citron-Fink

      beauty.

      Introduction

      I ’ VE COME TO THINK OF this book as a negotiation between health and beauty, a conversation that started when the two collided with an obsession—hair. So, in the spirit of honest dialogue, I have to begin with two confessions: (1) I loved my dark dyed hair until it stopped loving me back, and (2) I’m not going to tell you to stop coloring.

      Neither of these admissions sits easily with my role as an environmental health activist. For years, scientists have known that chemicals in personal care products were threatening women’s health. Now, word of the questionable ingredients is out, not only on the street but down the aisles of Sephora. Even beauty magazines are publishing articles about phthalates, parabens, and other endocrine disruptors that interfere with the body’s natural hormones.

      Yet I spent twenty-five years coloring my tresses before I asked a colleague, an environmental scientist, Are the chemicals in hair dye toxic? Her answer was my wake-up call. It spurred me to begin asking a host of other questions and, ultimately, to write this book. What’s the connection between coloring and cancer? Who regulates the hair dye industry? What are the risks for hairdressers? Are all dyes created equal? Do safer alternatives exist? Where does all that dye end up after it’s washed out of our hair?

      This truth-seeking investigation also led me to a more personal question. Given everything I was learning about the potential dangers of hair dye, why was the thought of giving it up so terrifying? I realized that for me, as for many women, hair dye was the magic elixir that made me feel youthful. Ditching the dye would mean confronting strongly held cultural beliefs—mine and others’—some of them so ingrained I was barely aware of them: beliefs about beauty, choice, aging, and femininity. It would also mean flouting fashion and beauty gurus, the media, decades of powerful and seductive advertising, my girlfriends, even the expectations of the men in my

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