Is it true that vinegar can remove hair color from hair? If not, then what home based products can remove hair dye?

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• You can lighten your hair and lift layers of dye gradually (meaning about 1 layer of dye or a color or tone level each time using soap caps, baking soda shampoo, and change the tones with the less damaging options.
  
  For those needing serious help:
  
  1st Choice - a soap cap using equal parts "toning" bleach and moisturizing shampoo. Beware of keeping it on for too long.
  
  Note: When lifting color from dyed hair you should almost always start with this treatment since it's basically pre-treating your hair (like using Shout for laundry) especially if you're planning on using a color lifting product.
  
  I use neutral 10 min. bleach but depending on what your color issues are you may want to use violet/purple to counter act yellow/gold, green to counter act red, and blue to counter act orange, and kill two birds with one stone.
  
  2nd Choice, use baking soda mixed in equal parts to a moisturizing shampoo. Just remember that baking soda is drying and lends toward orange, so get a good conditioner or deep conditioning treatment and a toner. You can use this method (and the 3rd Choice) to gradually lift color by just adding it to your regular shampoo and washing it as often as you like.
  
  3rd Choice, for more of a toning effect or to lift up to one color tone level use 1 part honey, 2 parts distilled or even purified water, 1 part olive oil. Let it sit for an hour and apply to dry hair. Then cover your hair with a plastic cap or bag and wrap a towel around your head. You can use an application bottle or a brush to apply the mixture evenly.
  
  The draw back is that to get a noticeable lightening effect you'll have to keep it on your hair for around 8-10 hours and repeat the process to get lighter and lighter results each time. It's very messy but will not damage your hair. If you can sleep with it on your hair overnight, then that's your best bet to obtain the most lightening and toning effects. Beware that cinnamon can be temporarily irritating to the skin but it actually stimulates circulation. This mixture incorporates Honey which will lessen the irritation that could be experienced with cinnamon.
  
  However, you could just use cinnamon and olive oil in equal parts (enough to cover your strands) in the same method as the 3rd Choice to for brunettes and get really nice results as well. You'll get more neutral reddish and blonde tones. For those wishing to lighten and add highlights this methods really kicks butt. It's great after using a heavy baking soda treatment or a soap cap.
  
  Also, with both 2nd and 3rd Choices, the mixture must be kept wet for the entire processing time and absolutely do not apply heat.
  
  I wanted to go from Medium Reddish Brown to light brown with naturally soft reddish and blonde tones and highlights. I had layers and layers of dye in colors ranging from true red/auburn to copper red to coppery brown and then L'oreal medium reddish brown.
  
  The soap cap removed the medium reddish brown layer completely and I was left with the previous color I had been dying my hair for about a year, true red/auburn. Later I used the equal parts cinnamon and olive oil treatment to further lighten and tone for approx. 8 hours. That lifted the true red out. Two days later I did honey, cinnamon, and olive oil treatment and I got some really nice tones and it lifted it even more though subtly. It added lots of highlights. Between the two, the cinnamon and olive oil alone was the best lifter of the non-damaging options. They lift without ending up with that obnoxious orangy color that you get doing an intensive baking soda in shampoo treatment (where you leave it on the hair for a while) or the soap cap alone. Instead you're left with more natural lighter tones.
  
  But if you're gonna re-color your hair after lifting the dye then the soap cap or baking soda's a good option. I just don't leave it on long enough because of the damage that it does to the hair shaft and because I like to be able to leave the house with whatever I'm left with.

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  by Debarelli on January 4th, 2011