Re: Lack of henna powder
Posted by Keltie on August 19, 1999 at 19:38:06:
In Reply to: Re: Lack of henna powder posted by Lise Anderson on August 19, 1999 at 18:29:31:
: You're really better off buying wholesale anyway
: -- 99.999 % of the henna powder you get in an
: indian grocery (or off-the-shelf anywhere) is old
: and has lost most of it's dyeing power. I try not
: to use any henna that's been harvested longer than
: 2 months ago -- and I consistantly get great
: results.
: And -- hair henna is NOT skin henna -- not even
: the health-food store kind. It's from a different
: part of the plant. Skin henna is from only the
: topmost, most potent leaves of the plant. Hair
: henna is from the rest of the plant, like twigs and
: other cellulose material.
Yep. I recall reading here reasons why hair henna shouldn't be used
for skin, but I couldn't remember exactly what they were.
: Why not buy it online? It's so much cheaper
: (besides being fresh), and fast.
I know. Impatience was the main factor, since it would have been nice
to get some more NOW! :) But I'll be ordering from Beautiful Art of
Mehndi. It's in Ottawa, only a couple of hours away. I also wanted to
actually meet some Indian women who had actual traditional Mehndi
experience that I could talk to them about, so I'm still not giving
up hope on finding an Indian grocers or something like here in town.
-Keltie
>^,,^<