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- Ingredients - the coloring thing in henna..

Henna is a natural product, a plant, growing in size from 3to 5 feet and can vary slightly from region to region. Its leaves are then dried and ground to make the henna powder. The ingredient in henna that makes up the dye properties is called lawsome lawsonia inermis. Since it is a natural product, there are no known side effects. Henna’s dye component, hennotannic acid, does not pass through into the dermis, it only stains the dead cells in the epidermis. Hennotannic acid naturally makes the brick/ red/brown stains; it usually takes many hours to get a good henna stain on the skin, and that stain is quite harmless. Pure, 100% henna with the help of heat , moisture and time, leaves a reddish brown stains on skin, first light, then darkening during the next 24 hours. The shade various according to the quality of henna used, the ingredients of the paste and the methods used when applying, and sometimes the color can darken to almost black, but basically the colour is brown.

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