Re: pre-mixed VS do it yourself
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on April 02, 2000 at 09:46:55:
In Reply to: pre-mixed VS do it yourself posted by james on April 01, 2000 at 22:27:34:
The pre-mixed that I'm familiar with is Rani. The color is neither
very good nor very bad .... it's in the brownish range. But, I get
vastly better colors (burgundy, Irish setter dog red, coffee brown,
near black) mixing my own with fresh plain henna powder from Castle
Art. (Link below)
My main complaint about the pre-mix, though, is that the orifice of
the tube isn't as fine as I like, harder on the hand to handle than a
cone .... and I've had so many of those tubes burble, ooze and even
explode all over me from the bacterial activity in the paste within
the tube of pre-mix. Seems quality control and sanitation isn't
always ideal.
Very good fresh henna powder is much better than a burbly pre-mix
with unidentified ingredients.
