If its green and smells like frozen peas .... its indigo, which is often marketed as "black henna"
Posted by Catherine Cartwright-Jones on May 22, 2004 at 11:00:04:
In reply to: Re: Kristen posted by rayna on May 22, 2004 at 04:00:28:
When people started exporting hair dye into Europe from the MiddleEast, a coupla centuries ago, translations must have been poor. There
are 3 green powder, used to dye hair, that looked only slightly
different. They all just got packed under the phrase "henna" (henna
being at that time a generic word for Hair Dye) (This was long before
synthetic hair dyes were invented) They were packed as Neutral Henna
(which is actually cassia obovata and doesn't dye) Red Henna (which is
actually Lawsonia Inermis and will stain hair red) and Black Henna
(which is actually partly fermented indigo and will stain hair black)
That's where the confusion came in. Its a historical slopover from
when HENNA was the word for all hair dye, whether it was HENNA or not.
ONe of the points of this site is to bring some clarity to that
confusion, and reconstruct the processes of safe natural hair dying
as was done since ......... 6000 BCE ............ and which has been
replaced by toxic chemicals in the last 80 years.
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Rayna 06:09:55 5/23/2004
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