I recently completed chemo and my hair is growing back. What products are safe to use on it?

Question

I have been told that certain hair care products cause cause cancer. I don't know what to do with my hair any more.

Answer 1

Hair Care Products Linked to Breast Cancer: The following is a list of products that have previously been found to contain hormones:

Placenta Shampoo, Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner, Placenta revitalizing shampoo, Perm Repair with placenta, Proline Perm Repair with placenta, Hormone hair food Jajoba oil, Triple action super grow, Supreme Vita-Gro, Luster's Sur Glo Hormone, B & B Super Gro, Lekair natural Super Glo, Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E, Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine, Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner, Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO, Hask Placenta Hair conditioner, Nu Skin body smoother and Nu Skin Enhancer. The majority of these products contain placental extract, placenta, hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Environmental oncology, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens, synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer. Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not born, but made and the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the greater her risk of breast cancer." We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair and our bodies and demand that more information about our health is shared.
Ladies and gentlemen beware.

Answer 2

Perm Repair Creme

Answer 3

Ho, ho, hoooold it. Not every cancer is fed by estrogen. If your cancer is estrogen-sensitive, then watch out for phytoestrogens, sure. And don't ingest them, either.

But if it's a non-estrogen sensitive cancer, gentle natural products should be OK. Maybe check with Look Better, Feel Better organizations in your area or ask your doctor about resources, websites, or books that address your issues. I mean, if you have environmental sensitivity issues, you might need to watch out for chemicals in lots of products, like cleaning supplies, foods, stuff like that.

I say, ask your dr. for recomendations and what you should watch out for. Estrogen may or may not be an issue for you.

Answer 4

use vaseline and water and olive oil it works great and cocnut oil too

Answer 5

Use whatever you want. Congrats on being done!!!!