by TMI Testing Staff | Aug 10, 2023
Children can complete a hair sensitivity test once they reach five years old due to their immune system changes and the importance of eating a varied diet. Infants have not yet built up their tolerance levels to items, highlighting false positives in their test...
by TMI Testing Staff | Aug 10, 2023
If you’ve purchased one of our hair testing kits, you will have to pay the postage cost back to the processing centre, which then sends the sample to the UK. We try to keep our costs as low as possible (by not sending out physical hair testing kits) so that we...
by TMI Testing Staff | Aug 10, 2023
The hair sample does not have to be from the head; we can test hair from any part of the body, including leg, arm or chest.
by TMI Testing Staff | Aug 10, 2023
The test is completed on the hair sample composition so that no hair processing will not affect the result. However, if you would like, you can provide hair from elsewhere on the body.
by TMI Testing Staff | Aug 10, 2023
The safest way to take a hair sample is to ask someone else to help you. Using your forefinger and thumb, gather 3 or 4 strands and slightly twist the hair together. This will make cutting the hair sample much more accessible and keep all the hair strand in the same...