Interesting piece
Posted by Catherine Cartwright-Jones on July 25, 2004 at 15:45:56:
Link below from the UN rather than a "family business" perspective.Start at just past halfway down the page at:
Iman Abubakr Osman has another interesting story to tell. As a
pharmacologist, she has initiated a study in the University of Afhad,
in Khartoum on women who use or work with henna. Henna is derived from
plants and is used by women to enhance the hair colour or as
decoration on the skin. In the Sudan, women prefer darker hair, so to
achieve this effect, they are using a kind of henna that contains the
chemical paraphenylene-diamine:
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