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Henna: Herbal home remedy for beautiful hair

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Kriti Saraswat, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:32 PM

Tags: Dandruff, Fenugreek, Greying hair, Hair care, Hair fall, Hair loss, Hair packs, healthy hair, Henna, Henna benefits, Herbal remedy, Home remedies, Home remedy, Musturd oil, Shine

hennaHenna is one of the most beneficial herbs and can do wonders for your hair. It has cooling properties and when applied to the scalp can soothe and cleanse it. Here are some more benefits of henna.

Henna is an excellent conditioner for your hair. It not only adds shine and volume to it, but also shields it from further damage by forming a coating on it.

Henna helps restore the natural acid-alkaline balance on your scalp and cleanses it of dirt without altering the natural balance unlike chemical-based products.

Also read: Multani mitti: Herbal home remedy for flawless skin

It promotes hair growth, reduces hair fall, dandruff and other scalp problems. You can even use it for colouring your hair as it does not have any side effects and gives a deep colour with a reddish tinge.

Henna also prevents your hair from greying and thinning making them healthy and lustrous.

Apart from various hair benefits, henna also helps cure acne, boils and warts. If you have a burn injury, mix some henna powder with water and apply it on the affected areas for instant relief. It not only heals the wound, it also prevents infection and bacterial growth.

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If you have dandruff

Take some fenugreek seeds (methi – about one tsp) and soak them overnight in water. Now grind them. Take some mustard oil and heat it with a few leaves of henna in it. After cooling the oil, strain it to get rid of coarse particles. Now add the ground methi paste in the oil and apply it on your scalp. Leave it for a good 30 minutes before washing your hair. Use weekly once for good results.

If you suffer from hair fall

Use mustard oil mixed with henna leaves but add one tsp of lemon juice or fresh yoghurt to it instead of methi. Massage this oil on your scalp. Leave it for 30 minutes and then wash your hair.

If you want to condition your hair

Soak henna powder overnight in freshly brewed black or green tea. Add a hint of essential oil or a beaten egg before you apply the mixture to your hair. Keep it for an hour before you wash it off. This will add volume to your locks, improve the texture and add shine to them.

Also read: DIY tips for acne-free skin

Henna is one useful herbal remedy when it comes to hair problems. So make complete use of it instead of buying expensive chemical products. It is easily available in India at grocery stores and supermarkets. Always buy the freshest available henna powder and store the leftover powder in the freezer. The colour of the powder varies but it is usually greenish in colour.

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Henna (Lawsonia inermis, also known as hina, the henna tree, the mignonette tree, and the Egyptian privet)[1][2] is a flowering plant and the sole species of the Lawsonia genus. The English name "henna" comes from the Arabic حِنَّاء (ALA-LC: ḥinnāʾ; pronounced [ħɪnˈnæːʔ]) or, colloquially حنا, loosely pronounced as /ħinna/.

The name henna also refers to the dye prepared from the plant and the art of temporary tattooing based on those dyes. Henna has been used since antiquity to dye skin, hair, and fingernails, as well as fabrics including silk, wool, and leather. The name is used in other skin and hair dyes, such as black henna and neutral henna, neither of which are derived from the henna plant.[3][4]

Historically, henna was used for cosmetic purposes in the Roman Empire, Convivencia-period Iberia and Ancient Egypt, as well as other parts of North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Near East and South Asia. It was also popular among women in 19th-century Europe. Today, bridal henna nights remain an important tradition in many of these areas.
Contents

    1 Description
    2 Cultivation
    3 Uses
    4 Preparation and application
        4.1 Body art
        4.2 Hair dye
            4.2.1 History
            4.2.2 Today
    5 Traditions of henna as body art
        5.1 Regions
    6 Health effects
        6.1 Regulation
    7 "Neutral henna" and "black henna"
        7.1 "Neutral henna"
        7.2 "Black henna"
        7.3 Para-phenylenediamine
    8 Gallery
    9 See also
    10 References
    11 External links

Description

Henna is a tall shrub or small tree, standing 1.8 to 7.6 m (5 ft 10 in to 24 ft 10 in) tall. It is glabrous and multi-branched, with spine-tipped branchlets. The leaves grow opposite each other on the stem and are glabrous, sub-sessile, elliptical, and lanceolate (long and wider in the middle; average dimensions are 1.5–5.0 cm x 0.5–2 cm or 0.6–2 in x 0.2–0.8 in), acuminate (tapering to a long point), and have depressed veins on the dorsal surface.[2] Henna flowers have four sepals and a 2 mm (0.079 in) calyx tube, with 3 mm (0.12 in) spread lobes. Its petals are obvate, with white or red stamens found in pairs on the rim of the calyx tube. The ovary is four-celled, 5 mm (0.20 in) long, and erect. Henna fruits are small, brownish capsules, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) in diameter, with 32–49 seeds per fruit, and open irregularly into four splits.[5]
Cultivation

The henna plant is native to northern Africa, western and southern Asia, and northern Australasia, in semi-arid zones and tropical areas.[2][6] It produces the most dye when grown in temperatures between 35 and 45 °C (95 and 113 °F).[7] During the onset of precipitation intervals, the plant grows rapidly, putting out new shoots. Growth subsequently slows. The leaves gradually yellow and fall during prolonged dry or cool intervals. It does not thrive where minimum temperatures are below 11 °C. Temperatures below 5 °C will kill the henna plant.
Uses
Small Henna plant

Henna has been used since the Bronze Age to dye skin (including body art), hair, fingernails, leather, silk and wool. In several parts of the world it is traditionally used in various festivals and celebrations. There is mention of henna as a hair dye in Indian court records around 400 CE,[8] in Rome during the Roman Empire, and in Spain during Convivencia.[9] It was listed in the medical texts of the Ebers Papyrus (16th-century BCE Egypt)[10] and by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (14th century CE, Syria and Egypt) as a medicinal herb.[11] In Morocco, wool is dyed and ornamented with henna, as are drumheads and other leather goods.

Use of henna for body art has enjoyed a recent renaissance due to improvements in cultivation, processing, and the emigration of people from traditional henna-using regions.[12]

For skin dyeing, a paste of ground henna (either prepared from a dried powder or from fresh ground leaves) is placed in contact with the skin from a few hours to overnight. Henna stains can last a few days to a month depending on the quality of the paste, individual skin type, and how long the paste is allowed to stay on the skin.

Henna also acts as an anti-fungal[13] and a preservative for leather and cloth.

Henna flowers have been used to create perfume since ancient times, and henna perfume is experiencing a resurgence. Henna repels some insect pests and mildew.

Henna's coloring properties are due to lawsone, a burgundy organic compound that has an affinity for bonding with protein. Lawsone is primarily concentrated in the leaves, especially in the petioles of the leaf. Lawsone content in leaves is negatively correlated with the number of seeds in the fruits.[14]

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There is no such thing as "hair dye".

We see hair colour by light shining THROUGH the hair, and the highlights by the light reflecting OFF the surface of the hair.

Henna is made from the leaves (sometimes roots) of the henna plant. The dry leaves are crushed into a powder. When water is added, it releases an orange-reddish colour. When applied to anything, this liquid will leave a stain on most things. So if applying to skin, there will be a stain that remains until the skin comes off. When applied to hair, a stain will be added to whatever colour the hair has, and will remain until it is cut off. Some fading will occur, but the stain is permanent. This is not a dye in the strict sense of the word, but a stain.

Remember that this stain only ADDS reddish tones to whatever you have in your hair. If you have black, you will then have reddish black; the black in the hair will always be there, no matter what you put on top of the hair. It will often tend to give the hair a reddish shine. If you apply it a number of times, you will get a build up of this red which may make the hair quite auburn. However, it will often leave a coating on the hair, which makes the hair feel coarse and false -- much like doll hair. The colour can then appear to be quite a dull red, without much shine. Henna is never applied to very light or white hair since the true colour of henna is more of an orange/red colour. There are many varieties of "henna" being sold, with various chemicals mixed in, but are not true henna.

If you want to have a lighter shade than black, you will have to remove some colour pigments from your hair, and by definition that is bleaching. Whether you use natural sunlight, or chemicals like a strong acid (lemon) or hydrogen peroxide, the effect is the same -- it is "bleaching" the hair to remove some colour particles. But when you remove some colour, you will tend to show a lot of your own natural red showing through, and you may not want that. You will then have to bleach it enough to remove the red, then add back the brown (without red) to give you the final shade.

Is there an easier way to get the chestnut you want? No. There are only two ways to change your hair colour: by adding colour (making it darker or deeper) or by removing colour to make it lighter. Sorry! Any lighter permanent hair colour you use will bleach your hair first and add colour in one application; without bleaching, your black will always show as black.

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I’ve been dyeing my hair since I was 13, when a hairdresser at an upscale salon informed me that I would have to dye my hair forever because my natural color ― the most neutral of dark browns ― was just that shitty. (Another stylist at the same salon later told my mother to imagine the haircut she wanted, which she had seen on a model in a magazine, “on an ugly face,” so take it with a grain of salt.) I don’t brush (wide-tooth comb!), shampoo every day (twice a week!), or heat style my mid back-length hair, but I still noticed that I was accumulating dry, crunchy ends, which worsened every time I hit the salon for a good two-hour color dose.

Since my mission these days is the longest, strongest, shiniest, most Middleton-esque cascades possible, and also maybe not getting cancer, I started feeling out my options for possible alternatives to traditional hair dye. My quest led me, as many of my quests do, straight to LUSH. Their solid blocks of henna pigment intrigued me for two reasons ― one, the formula not only colors, but deeply conditions and strengthens the hair while doing so; two, the concoction is called Caca Brun Mama, which basically means Poop Brown Mom. Was I really going to put something called Poop Brown Mom all over my hair, and leave it there for six hours? Yes. Yes I was.

Price/Availability: At $25.95 for 11.4 oz, the price may seem steep to those who are used to coloring with an $8 box from CVS. On the other hand, if you’re more of the $250 salon visit type, this is cheap as hell. Considering you can get anywhere from two to four treatments out of the bar depending on your hair length/thickness, it’s a pretty good deal however you spin it. It’s available online at LUSH and in LUSH stores ― check here for the Store Locator. I chose the Caca Brun, which imparts a cool-toned brown, but there are three other colors available.

Packaging: It comes neatly tied up in a plastic bag, and the 11.4 oz bar is separated into six squares. If you have shorter or very fine hair, you may be able to get away with using one or two bars. I have fairly long, super-fine hair, but I have a lot of it, so I used three squares. I used the same on my mom, who has fine shoulder-length hair, with some left over. It’s better to make more than you think you need than to have to make more while you’re doing your hair.

Formula: It smells weird, like old plants and maybe a little bit of hash, but it’s significantly more pleasant than the chemical smell of other hair dyes. Once it’s melted and applied, it hardens to a solid mass, so you don’t have to clip it up or anything if you have long hair, just kind of mush it all together and twist your hair up into a shape and push it down. It’ll stay. The entire process is very involved, as in, if you don’t have five or more hours to stay inside the house doing whatever, DO NOT BEGIN. However, if you are really looking to make a healthier, more conscious lifestyle change to how you color your hair, there is nothing better than this particular formula. There are specific instructions, which you can find on the website under How To Use. It sounds stressful and difficult, but if I can do it, anyone can. Really. I’m pretty useless.

Results: If you haven’t been frightened off by the lengthy, involved process, this stuff rules. I was worried it wasn’t going to wash out because it had dried so stiffly into my hair (I left it in for six hours), but once I got under the warm water in the shower it softened and actually came out pretty easily. I was expecting a total mess, but unless you let it sit on your floor or curtain or bathtub for a long time, it doesn’t even stain. You don’t have to condition to excess after you wash it out like you do with other hair dye; your hair will be super soft and feel thicker and healthier. For real! I didn’t shampoo it out immediately after to keep the color in ― I rinsed with conditioner and let it air dry.

My hair is significantly darker, but not black, and the lighter, redder areas of my hair, the ones I was trying to subdue, became a soft, muted cool brown. The brassiness is gone. Like I said, I also did this on my mom the next day. She had gotten her hair dyed professionally and was unhappy (like, bitching continuously for a week) about how red they had made her hair. She washed it out after two hours, and her hair was only slightly darker (nowhere near “dark” brown) but the brassiness had been completely toned out. And yes, MOM, it covers greys.

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Henna (Lawsonia inermis, also called henna tree) is a flowering plant used since antiquity to dye skin, hair, fingernails, leather and wool. The name is also used for dye preparations derived from the plant, and for the art of temporary tattooing based on those dyes.

Henna is a tall shrub or small tree, 2.6 m high. It is glabrous, multibranched with spine tipped branchlets. Leaves are opposite, entire, glabrous, sub-sessile, elliptical, and broadly lanceolate (1.5–5.0 cm x 0.5–2 cm), acuminate, having depressed veins on the dorsal surface. Henna flowers have four sepals and a 2 mm calyx tube with 3 mm spread lobes. Petals are obvate, white or red stamens inserted in pairs on the rim of the calyx tube. Ovary is four celled, style up to 5 mm long and erect. Fruits are small, brownish capsules, 4–8 mm in diameter, with 32–49 seeds per fruit, and open irregularly into four splits.

Use of henna for body art has enjoyed a recent renaissance due to improvements in cultivation, processing, and the emigration of people from traditional henna-using regions.

For skin dyeing, a paste of ground henna (either prepared from a dried powder or from fresh ground leaves) is placed in contact with the skin from a few hours to overnight. Henna stains can last a few days to a month depending on the quality of the paste, individual skin type, and how long the paste is allowed to stay on the skin.

Henna also acts as an anti-fungal and a preservative for leather and cloth.

Henna flowers have been used to create perfume since ancient times, and henna perfume is experiencing a resurgence. Henna repels some insect pests and mildew.

Henna's coloring properties are due to lawsone, a burgundy organic compound that has an affinity for bonding with protein. Lawsone is primarily concentrated in the leaves, especially in the petioles of the leaf. Lawsone content in leaves is negatively correlated with the number of seeds in the fruits.