For
thousands of years, women have used plants from the family Lawsonia, called
henna, to color, condition and enhance their hair. Henna is primarily used
for safe, natural, chemical-free hair coloring. Chemical coloring agents
weaken and destroy the hair shaft over time. In contrast, henna has a long
history as a safe, gentle hair color. It is a natural product, subject to
variations from harvest to harvest that responds somewhat differently to
different hair conditions and colors. Although the primary plant species yields shades of red, the use of neutral and black henna has allowed the development of a wide range of available shades of henna hair coloring, from pure neutral, a natural conditioning and high- lighting agent with no coloring agent to a range of reds, rich browns, dark chestnuts and gleaming black.







