Hair smells like rotten eggs after dying!

[Eggyhair]

I'm in my 50s and have been dying my hair since my teens. This is the first time this has happened to me.

I dyed my hair last week, using Olia Intense 10-50. I noticed after I got the pack that it said it contains no ammonia (I have used them before without issue, but knew the dye wouldn't smell too strongly.

I've been blonde for a while, as my hair is 70% grey and my beloved darker colours go ginger and don't last more than a week or so.

Apparently the dye goes purple when developing (makes sense as it's an ash colour), but it didn't on mine.

I wasn't happy with the colour as it was 'warmer' than I expected and my hair was very light before I started. So I just used toning drops and it was fine.

I didn't wash until today (about 4 days after dying) and to start with assumed the drains were bad, but the smell was as strong wherever I went and sniffing a strand of hair, confirmed it was definitely my hair.

I've shampooed it four times and conditioned it twice, then put on hair oil and thickening cream to improve the smell, but it's still there.

I cannot imagine what is causing this. It smells like a salon with perming solution in...a really, really strong sulphur smell, from the hair itself.

I don't know if the product was mislabelled and was really a colour remover, but it didn't smell at the time.

Sorry should be dyeing, no idea why I forgot the e's in my post and title.

Hopeful bump!

Anyone?

Sorry, no idea or useful advice, but can only presume it’s a sulphur type smell caused by some kind of chemical reaction? Google is saying to try cinnamon and honey to get rid of the smell.

Did you check the colour number on the box matched the one on the tube? I've been caught out before.
Not sure how to get rid of the smell though. Maybe lots of time outside?!

Definitely not a colour remover. Garnier don't make colour removers so no way of a mix up in the factory.

Very odd though.

Is a colour remover different to bleach/a lightener then? Because I've definitely used a Garnier one of those (though it does say no ammonia so didn't smell that bad iirc).

Yes very different.

A bleach is hydrogen peroxide and a bleach powder which lift and remove colour pigment, both artificial and natural from hair.

A colour remover is usually bleach free. It works by removing artificial colour pigments by dissolving them in the hair shaft. The hair is usually orange and brassy after due to the original hair colourant, all permanent box eyes contain hydrogen peroxide to lift pigment in order to be able to deposit.

Olia, the ammonia free dye you used, is a hair colourant containing hydrogen peroxide. It shouldn't smell of sulphur.

Try fairy dish soap wash hair leave it on for 5 mins and wash out it's worked for me