Henna - A Natural Dye For Hair

If you have very porous hair, use chemical dyes to make them more brittle and dry. In this case, will help organic dye staining. With proper preparation, henna is a wonderful natural hair dyes. Also, henna can be used for the preparation of medical masks.

Henna - a shrub which grows in Egypt, Sudan and other countries. The leaves of this shrub are collected, dried and crushed to powder.

You can buy henna in the Iranian or Indian stores already packaged or in bulk. Although in our area - this is not a deficit. When you choose a henna dye, you should pay attention to what is different shades of henna, and it must be considered. In the dry henna powder is a greenish-yellow.

As well to prepare henna coloring composition? This will require a small saucepan with a lid and a smaller capacity. You must open a bag of powdered henna, and pour its contents into a container of smaller size, and then pour boiling water over powder. In this case, the mass must be constantly stirring a wooden or plastic stick until smooth. If a packet with a packet of henna oil, then it too should be added to the mass. In a saucepan filled with boiling water and put a container of henna, and then the pan is covered with a lid and put on low heat for 15-20 minutes for the brew in a water bath.


Before applying henna hair carefully combed, and are divided into partings: horizontal - from ear to ear across the crown, vertical - from the middle of the forehead to the edges of the hairline on the neck. Henna should begin with the occipital area of the radial parting. Should not be separated by thick strands of hair, as you will be hard for a good paint over the hair. It is better to separate the hair parted on the horizontal distance of 5.8 millimeters.

Coloring the occipital area, proceed to stain parietal and temporo-lateral zones. From the central parting, separating the horizontal parting thin strands, hair paint, descending from the beginning to the right ear, and then to the left. Women who have gray hair should be carefully paint over the hair on the boundary line of hair growth.

After the henna is applied to the hair roots to dye and finish. Henna, in contrast to chemical dyes, tends to accumulate in the hair and to obtain uniform color stain should be applied every time from root to tip.
After the henna is applied to all the hair, you can stab a plastic clip and cover the head of food wrap. Henna is desirable to maintain the hair for 4-5 hours.

After the henna hair stood on the allotted time, they must be thoroughly rinsed. Fragments of henna is hard enough to wash the hair. Once the hair is washed, you can inflict on them a small amount of conditioner, it will facilitate the flushing of the remaining powder with hair.

The result of staining will be a beautiful color and healthy, shiny hair.
Those who dyes her hair with henna, it must be remembered that after the hair dye organic dye do not perm hair (she can not take) can not be painted with chemical dyes her hair (the color is not taken, quickly wash off and the end result will be unpredictable staining).