HERBAL HAIR DYE

                                                   HERBAL HAIR DYE 

The word herbal is a symbol of safety in contrast to the synthetic one which has adverse effects on human health. Herbal preparations viz., herbal tablets, herbal tonics, herbal paste, herbal shampoo, herbal contraceptives and herbal dyes has become popular among the consumer herbal medicines represent the fastest growing segment to heal the various ailments.

Melanin is what gives color to human skin, eyes, and hair. It’s the ratio of two types of melanin—eumelanin and pheomelanin—that determines your natural hair color. And it’s the size and shape that the melanin molecules form when they cluster in the hair shaft that give the unique tones within a hair color.

In comparison to natural hair dyes, synthetic hair dyes are reported to cause skin and other skin related diseases. The manufacturing process is hazardous to health of the people involved in the process and its applications leads to environmental pollution and also causes potential side effects to the consumers of the product.

A dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has an affinity to the fiber, fur or hair. The dye is generally applied as aqueous solution, and may require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber, fur or hair. Natural dyes also referred as mordant dyes. Different mordant will give different hue color with the same dye. A mordant is thus an agent which allows a reaction to occur between the dye and the fiber, hair or fur

 People using synthetic dyes are exposed to greater risk of developing urinary bladder cancer and non-hodgkin’s lymphoma

Synthetic hair dyes which are available in the market,uses combination of peroxide and ammonia which alters the structure of hair and damage and also causes allergic reactions paraphenylene diamine , a key ingrident of many synthetic hair dye is known to trigger allergic skin rashes in many people it also caused dermatitis around lips ,Redding and swelling of scalp and face etc.

S.NO	INGRIDIENT	QUANTITY
1	HENNA	15g
2	INDIGO	15g
3	ALOE VERA	2g
4	FEENU GREEK	2g
5	BHIRINGRAJ	2g
6	AMLA	2g
7	GUAVA	2g
8	BLACK CATECHU	5g
9	TULSI	3g
10	LOHA BHASMA	2g
11	WATER	q.s

Application of Herbal hair dye:

After completion of 1hour hair dye pastes were applied on hair samples, the dyed hair samples was washed with tap water after the period of two hours, a second coat of dye was applied after 24 hours for of first application, kept for two hours then washed with tap water without aid of shampoo.(dye when  binds with the keratin fibre when the light fall on the dye applied hair the outer layer of the hair shaft shimmers/ reflects the light in such a way to present the hair to be in brownish red colour)