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Posted by Faery Ring on May 6, 2004 at 22:56:06:

In reply to: Calling Txilar and Faery Ring posted by Rimmer on May 6, 2004 at 13:08:32:

Really, I would love to help with the science of henna but it has
been ten years since my last organic chemistry class.

So from what I can understand terpenes are hydrocarbon chains. They
can sometimes take a cyclic form rather than a straight chain. The
alcohol end is an OH group.

I think the fact that they have low molecular weights and are
nonpolar liquids tend to make them volatile or evaporate (break away
from one another and float away as a gas). It is probably what makes
them small enough to penetrate the dead skin layer and carry across
the henna dye.

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