1:02 Can hair dye chemicals cause cancer?
Publication Date: January 7, 2026
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Attorney Barrett Naman discusses the studies that link hair dye ingredients to cancer.

Video Transcript -

The hair dye products used chemicals, and there’s been studies of these chemicals — peer reviewed literature, epidemiological studies about the different chemicals involved in these hair dye products — and what has been found is that those chemicals can be linked to specific types of cancer. There’s numerous studies that have come out, more and more over the last few years, and those studies have revealed that African American women who have been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer — that cancer can be strongly linked to the hair dye products that they worked with. The scientific literature has shown that there’s a strong link between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the chemicals that were used in these hair dye products as well.