Hair dye: 131 labels checked

131 hair dyes from 43 brands on Open Beauty Facts, read one ingredient at a time. Below: how many pass each of the six checks, the ones that pass, which ingredients decide it, and the most scanned products.

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Six checks across 131 hair dyes

Check	Yes	No	Not sure
Vegan hair dyes	12 (9%)	40	79
Fragrance-free hair dyes	18 (14%)	111	2
Paraben-free hair dyes	85 (65%)	24	22
Sulfate-free hair dyes	64 (49%)	50	17
Silicone-free hair dyes	38 (29%)	90	3
Alcohol-free hair dyes	47 (36%)	73	11

Yes means the ingredient list contains none of the ingredients that check looks for. Not sure on the vegan check means an ingredient can come from a plant or an animal and the label does not say which.

What decides it most often

Ingredients that turned a check to No in hair dyes, counted across the 131 most scanned lists.

Vegan hair dyes

12 of 131 hair dyes pass the vegan check. The 8 most scanned:

All vegan products

Fragrance-free hair dyes

18 of 131 hair dyes pass the fragrance-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All fragrance-free products

Paraben-free hair dyes

85 of 131 hair dyes pass the paraben-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All paraben-free products

Sulfate-free hair dyes

64 of 131 hair dyes pass the sulfate-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All sulfate-free products

Silicone-free hair dyes

38 of 131 hair dyes pass the silicone-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All silicone-free products

Alcohol-free hair dyes

47 of 131 hair dyes pass the alcohol-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All alcohol-free products

Most scanned hair dyes

Showing the 72 most scanned of 131. Search all hair dyes.

Data: Open Beauty Facts, community database, ODbL license. Categories come from the product name and the community tags, so a few products sit in the wrong group; the check itself reads only the ingredient list. No brand pays for a verdict.