Natural Hair Coloring by Christine Shahin

Author:Christine Shahin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: natural hair care, organic hair dye, natural hair dye, henna, henna for hair, cassia, indigo, amla, color mixing, all-natural hair color, plant dyes, nourish hair, healthy hair, herbal pigments, chemical-free hair
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-03-29T20:24:55+00:00

Each herb naturally contains a different amount of the key staining ingredient. Many things can affect the level of this constituent, including climate and soil as well as how the colorants are processed and stored and how long they remain in storage.

Also important is the temperature of the mix when you set your herbal colorants. Temperature affects the rate of dye release, and therefore saturation levels. Liquids added to the pigments can be at room temperature or warm. Some people say that you should never use boiling liquid to mix your colorant, believing this could compromise the pigment; I myself have used boiling water on pure henna and gotten a good stain, but the mud was lumpy rather than smooth and the stain not as deep. In the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains where I live, the weather can get very cold, yet still I “keep it simple, sweetheart” and don’t fuss with incubating (warming the mixture while it sets). I mix henna and cassia, which release their dye slowly, in a plastic container, covered only with its lid, and let the color develop overnight before applying it to hair. I repeatedly get a very good stain.

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