Henna – Mehndi Kit, Everything you need for Henna with OIL
Mehndi Kit, Everything you need for Henna with OIL.
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Several years ago in Los Angeles California a young lady needed Henna for an event she was involved in. Henna was available locally but it was of poor quality and high cost!
What to do?
The event over and the high prices for poor product paid Rabia Amla sat down at the Internet and began the research that would lead her to the position she is in today.
Many trials and many failures later Rabia had a Henna recipe which worked every time. The Henna kits that resulted from this extensive research became popular on eBay so Rabia opened a web site to supplement her Henna Kit sales.
Henna Kits are readily available from India and Pakistan and at a very low cost. We were interested in why it would not be easier and cheaper to purchase Henna and Henna kits from there instead of an American produced kit.
It seems that none of the imports had an ingredient list and it is rumoured strongly that kerosene and other skin irritants are mixed with the Henna to give it a darker aspect. The Henna quality was frequently found to be poor and the Henna “tired” after an uncertain journey.
Having used Henna Kits personally since childhood Rabia is ideally placed to produce a very high quality product at a reasonable price. She will in the future be well placed to move into the wholesale market and expand her product list.
Henna Latin Name Lawsonia Inermis is also called the Mignonette tree. It is a flowering plant used since days of old to dye skin, hair, fingernails, feet, toes and other body parts best not mentioned here.
The henna plant is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia in dry areas. Henna’s indigenous area is the tropical grass lands and tropical dry regions. It produces it’s highest dye content in temperatures between 35 °C and 45 °C.
At the start of the rainy season, the plant grows rapidly putting out new shoots. The leaves gradually yellow and fall during lengthy dry or cool periods. It does not do well below 11 °C. and temperatures below 5 °C will kill the henna plant.
Henna is commercially grown in UAE, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Western India, Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Turkey, Somalia and Sudan. At the moment the Pali district of Rajasthan is the most heavily cultivated henna production area in India.
Henna in use since the Bronze Age to dye skin (including body art), is traditionally used in various festivals and celebrations. There is mention of henna used as a hair dye in Rome during the Roman Empire and in was listed in the medical texts of the Ebers Papyrus (16th c BCE Egypt) as a medicinal herb.
The use of henna as a form of body art has enjoyed a recent renaissance due to advances in cultivation, processing, and the migration of people from traditional henna-using regions to the more prosperous areas of the world.
For skin dyeing, a paste of ground henna is normally prepared from a dried powder. It is placed on the skin for a few hours or even overnight.
Henna stains can last a few days to a month depending on the quality of the paste, skin type, and how long the paste is allowed in contact with the skin.
Now for the technical bit!
Henna’s dyes your skin due to a chemical known as Lawsone, a burgundy organic compound that has an affinity for bonding with protein. Lawsone is primarily concentrated in the leaves, especially in the leafstalks of the leaf. Strangely Lawsone content in leaves is depends on number of seeds in the fruits. The more seeds the less Lawsone.
Whole, unbroken henna leaves will not stain the skin. Henna will not stain skin until the Lawsone molecules are made available (released) from the henna leaf. Fresh henna leaves will stain the skin if they are smashed with a mildly acidic liquid. The lawsone will gradually migrate from the henna paste into the outer layer of the skin and bind to the proteins in it, creating a fast stain.
As it is difficult to form intricate patterns from crushed leaves, henna is commonly used as a powder made by drying, milling and sifting the leaves.
Includes:
- 50g Jamilla BAQ Henna Powder.
- Premeasured Essential Oil blend for henna powder.
- One 1 oz henna applicator bottle.
- 11 tips, for the applicator
- 1 Declogging tip
- 1 Carrot Bag
- 1 rolled empty cone ( color of the cone may differ from the picture.)
- Instructions on mixing Henna can be found at http://mehndi911.com/MixingHenna.aspx
This kit is great for any one who likes to use Henna.
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