0:40 How much hair dye use can lead to a cancer lawsuit?
Publication Date: January 7, 2026
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Attorney Barrett Naman discusses hair dye exposure and cancer risk.

Video Transcript -

We have clients that have used it every other week. We have clients that have used it once every other month. We also have clients who have worked in the beauty industry that are working with it daily. If you’re a hairdresser, you’re going to be working with it constantly. But individuals who were just using it for their own hair, they used it every other week, they would use it every other month, And those type of exposures have been linked to causing cancer.