32-Year-Old Mom Ends Up in Hospital After Dying Her Hair with Clairol

32-year-old Selma Olaval from Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, suffered an extreme allergic reaction to Clairol cream hair dye.

This was not the first time the woman tries out the dye, in fact she uses it regularly. The Procter&Gamble company, that produces Clairol, cannot be held responsible if something happens to you, as they do post warnings on the label.

Procter&Gamble alerts customers that inflammation and other symptoms may occur when applying their product, however in a “very small number,” as their spokeswoman said to the Mirror.

Mrs. Olaval ended up in hospital after her entire face was bloated to the point where she couldn't open her eyes. She had used Clairol Nice ’n Easy, in the color black.

"My forehead was swelling and my eyes were puffy.[...] I thought I was going to die. After taking the tablets, it’s finally gone down five days later,” she says.

Mrs. Olaval, a mother of one, had not performed the required skin test before using the product. This is not the first victim of the “Nice n’ Easy” coloring kit.

Before last year's holidays, 25-year-old Cameron Rowe suffered the same effects after trying the dye. In a similar sequence of events, Cameron did not perform the allergy test as she had been using the dye since she was 13 or 14.

“I looked in the mirror and half of my face was swollen. It looked like half of my head had been pumped up like a football,” Cameron says. [...] I went straight to hospital and by the time I got there my head was swollen everywhere, even my ears were huge. The doctors admitted me immediately. […] The most disgusting thing is my head started to leak pus. I had to wrap my head in a towel, it was horrible and it smelt like a wet dog,“ Mrs. Rowe stated.

Once again, Procter&Gamble claimed it was a fluke accident, and that their products are tested to exhaustion.

“Millions of people all over the world use hair colorants without experiencing any adverse effects. In the UK, around 100 million hair colorant applications are carried out every year in homes and salons,” reps said.