Hydrogen Peroxide, toothpaste, hair

[camfused]

Hey. So, I have been using a whitening toothpaste for about a week now, in an effort to whiten my teeth a bit. I have noticed that my white beard around my mouth is turning back to its original red/orange color. The toothpaste has hydrogen peroxide (and a bunch of other stuff) in it, and I was wondering if that might be causing my hair to revert to its younger color.

Has anyone played around with 3% hydrogen peroxide on their white beard to see if it restores the color? Maybe I should just smear toothpaste all over my beard, lol.

 

[Amethyst]

Hydrogen peroxide is a bleach, which removes hair pigment, and also opens the hair follicle to accept pigment from another source (this is what happens when people go to the salon to get a different hair color). Something else must be adding color to your beard. Have you eaten or drunk anything with a gold or reddish color to it?

(If there were a chemical that made white hair go back to its original, natural color, it would be big news! And there wouldn't be any more blue-haired old ladies, unless they wanted blue hair for their latest punk band tour).

https://www.lorealparisusa.com/beau...r/what-does-hydrogen-peroxide-do-to-hair.aspx

 

[braumeister]

Maybe I should just smear toothpaste all over my beard, lol.

Yes, that's the right thing to do. Be sure to use plenty, and work it into a lather, getting it into every hair. Don't dilute it with water or anything else. By applying toothpaste to your beard at least several times a day for a period of 6-8 weeks, you should notice ...

Hmm. Or maybe not.

 

[Sunset]

Have you been eating spaghetti recently

 

[bolt]

Redheads are an odd lot, an odd 5% of the population in USA.
Redheads w/blue or green eyes are an exceptionally particular lot.

Like George Carlin I can say that,..having been a strawberry blond youth myself.
I have no heirs' that turned it white to begin with!

All mentioned in jest.....but twoo.

 

[camfused]

Have you been eating spaghetti recently

Yes, but had not noticed any change with previous spaghetti eating experiences. Is there evidence that tomato sauce will stain a beard red?

 

[Boho]

Yes, but had not noticed any change with previous spaghetti eating experiences. Is there evidence that tomato sauce will stain a beard red?

Put peroxide on your beard to bleach it then start coloring all your food with blue food coloring to see if your beard turns blue.

 

[Koolau]

90 degrees to the discussion: Good friend had all white beard. One day, his old color started to come back! No peroxide or colorings. He's now mostly old color. Strange because I thought loss of pigment was permanent (sure has been for me but YMMV.)

 

[camfused]

FYI, I finally decided that the toothpaste was actually not doing anything to my beard. It was just naturally showing some original color sometimes.

But, I did decide to use 100% pure henna on my beard. Can't get pics to show up, for some reason. I left the henna in for 15 minutes, instead of the normal 2 hours, since I just want to add back in some color. I'm happy.