Beard bleaching??

I won't let my curiosity take rein...
No idea how old you are, but you could always wait for Mother Nature...
Bleach or sodium hydroxide is a very strong alkali, I wouldn't want apply that to my skin (unaboidable).
 
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NOT sodium hydroxide - that's caustic and will burn your face off.


Hydrogen peroxide is the original bleach blonde chemical which will dye it blonde (the longer you leave it the lighter it gets) - not quite sure how you get it white though :suspect:
 
You could always go blonde, or possibly green like W. Connolly!
(Or was it blue?)
 
beyond the blue said:
Mother nature did 80% of it white ;) it's the other 20%
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A bloke at work who used to have a ginger beard shaved it off when it started going grey/white. A couple of years ago he decided to grow a goatie. It was all white apart from a ginger brown ring around his mouth which became known as a "pooh ring".:lol:
 
Nawty said:
I do have a chemistry degree :p but no one's ever heard of ammonia blondes :lol:
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Well done on the degree. the peroxide is a separate item to the 'bleach' you indeed add hydrogen peroxide to the mixture, but you add this to all colours, it dosent make them bleach, it is just the cayalyst. The strength of the peroxide you use is determined by the colour of the Hair
 
Vettahead said:
Well done on the degree. the peroxide is a separate item to the 'bleach' you indeed add hydrogen peroxide to the mixture, but you add this to all colours, it dosent make them bleach, it is just the cayalyst. The strength of the peroxide you use is determined by the colour of the Hair
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Peroxide is an oxidising agent and will bleach on its own, but not that well. You keep it separate from the other ingredients because if you didn't all manner of things could happen - I could make bombs out of it (unless a CIA person is listening!). Normally it just turns hair blonde.

It is usually combined with ammonium hydroxide to bleach hair and the resultant nasty smell is ammonia, both are bleaching agents but combined they work better. As with most things, combination attack works better.

The reason it is kept separate is that H2O2 (Hydrogen peroxide) is highly reactive and degrades quickly at the slightest whiff of air BUT it is important for the reactions of the other reagents so keep it in an airtight separate bottle and all's good.
 
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Nawty said:
Peroxide is an oxidising agent and will bleach on its own, but not that well. You keep it separate from the other ingredients because if you didn't all manner of things could happen - I could make bombs out of it (unless a CIA person is listening!). Normally it just turns hair blonde.

It is usually combined with ammonium hydroxide to bleach hair and the resultant nasty smell is ammonia, both are bleaching agents but combined they work better. As with most things, combination attack works better.

The reason it is kept separate is that H2O2 (Hydrogen peroxide) is highly reactive and degrades quickly at the slightest whiff of air BUT it is important for the reactions of the other reagents so keep it in an airtight separate bottle and all's good.
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I'm aware. Been using it for 20 years. Thanks for the chemical lesson. :-) it's still not the thing that makes your hair light. It's the catalyst
 
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