Just so happens, I fielded an LLL Helping Call on this same topic yesterday,
Barb. According to The Breastfeeding Answer Book, on page 449, "No evidence
exists that the nursing mother's use of hair-car products, such as hair days
and permanents, has any effect on her breastfeeding baby. When a mother uses
hair care products, some of the chemicals will be absorbed through her skin.
If her scalp is healthy and intact, less will be absorbed than if the skin
on her scalp is scratched or abraded."

Hope this helps.

--Karen Meade
LLL Leader, suburban Philadelphia, PA, USA
anxiously (and quite uncomfortably) awaiting the arrival of nursling #3 at
the end of October :)

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