other things in the ph 13 range
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on January 04, 2000 at 16:08:40:
In Reply to: More on Ammonia replacment posted by CJ on January 04, 2000 at 04:44:57:
Two other things that I've read about applying to hennaed skin to
blacken the henna, but tried without success are:
Wood ash (very, very high ph)(caustic, too, wood ash leaches out lye)
Lime (as in garden lime, not the fruit) (very caustic, used to
quickly decompose road kill)
Those just didn't work at all when I tried them.
I even tried the hair straightener that reeks of ammonia ... it didn't
percipitate the henna color, but it did take several layers of skin
off.
I don't know of anything else with a really base ph, other than
ammonia and ammonia compounds (ie urine and sweat under heat stressed
conditions) (ammoniac crystal) that will penetrate the dead layer and
percipitate the henna. Maybe ammonia's the only molecule small
enough to get in and do the job.