Color is hot this season. It's Spring, time to turn over a new leaf, get a new look, revamp the self from the wintry paltry blues. I see my naturals are flocking to color in Spring '11! My Twitter TL and my Facebook updates are going wild for curly girls doing something colorfully wonderful to their curls. G'won girls, do ya thang! But, with our hair, we have to protect it because of the horror stories! Some folks just don't wanna BC their hair as a result of color damage. Also, I personally feel guilty applying color to my curls, because I really do stand on the chem free stance of my hair. From http://www.natural-living-for-women.com/, she states that honestly coloring agents are relatively hard to find with all natural ingredients, but I am on the Google mission to find something.
We know henna, and there are plenty giveaways of henna. Henna is a nontoxic plant based product that is used to condition the hair, but is also used to color skin and hair. The finished hair color from henna falls within a range of brown to strawberry blonde hues. Natural henna is typically stains a red to brown color, and the "black henna" or "neutral henna" aren't even henna products per say as they usually don't contain henna itself, but in fact other stuff.
EcoColors Haircolor Golden Blonde Warm
Water, dihydroxyethyl soyamine dioleate, aqueous ammonia, denatured alcohol, oleic acid, linseed oil, castor oil, lecithin, lanolin, silk, ascorbyl palmitate vitamin C, rosemary oil, vitamin E, love, grapefruit seed extract, Organic Lavender flower essences.
May contain one or more of the following: aminophenol sulfate; aminophenol, methyl-resorcinol; napthol, 3-methyl-1-phenyl-5-pyrazolone; toluenediamine sulfate; ppd; 2 hydroxyethyl amino2-ethylphenol.
Developer: Water, buffered food grade hydrogen peroxide, jojoba oil, oleic acid, castor oil, linseed oil, organic lemon grass essential oil, acrylic copolymer.
Tints of Nature
Irish seaweed (known for its conditioning properties) Wheat amino acids (known for their ability to add strength and body) Oleic acid (emollient moisturizer) Lauramide DEA (Vegetable fat to protect and thicken) Bixa orellana-annatto (natural food colourants) Red beet (Natural beetroot colour).
Herbatint
Ingredients
Water, Nonoxynol-6, Nonoxynol-4, Ethanolamine, Propylene Glycol, EDTA, Sodium Metabisulfite, Walnut Extract, Rhubarb Extract, Cinchona Extract, P-phenylenediamine, Resorcinol, O0aminophenol, M-aminophenol. Water, Glycol, Hydrogen Peroxide, Etidronic Acid, EDTA. Does not contain Ammonia.
If using chemical based color on your hair, try a color patch first to make sure the color does not break your hair out. My girlfriend suggested she do the back of her hair because it's the strongest, and she can always cover it up if it breaks off. Color is one the hardest things on the hair, so be sure to seek professional help if you need to, and protect your hair before and after your color treatment.
For protecting your hair, after any type of colored treatment try vegetable glycerin, olive oil, honey, rose water, and if desired or needed seal with shea butter.
Beware, your curl pattern may change in the form of being more defined and more coily, as in the case of mine after color treating your hair.
"Many hair color products use the word natural and I find this can be confusing. You may see the word natural on the label but it may only refer to the results not the ingredients. If they say natural looking results then that makes sense. Contains natural ingredients no matter how little makes sense too but very few hair dyes are all natural. When I refer to a hair color as natural in most instances I am using it rather loosely. While some natural ingredients are used and the choice of chemicals used is safer than many of the brands currently available it is hardly a completely safe, natural product. There are a few exceptions to this though."
"Black henna" may contain p-phenylenediamine (PPD), which can stain skin black quickly, but can cause severe allergic reactions and permanent scarring. The FDA specifically forbids PPD to be used for that purpose."In my attempt to find natural products other than henna that will dye your hair, I did come across a few. NONE OF THESE HAVE I TRIED, BUT IN THE EVENT THAT I DO, I WILL BE SURE TO POST A PRODUCT REVIEW.
EcoColors Haircolor Golden Blonde Warm
Water, dihydroxyethyl soyamine dioleate, aqueous ammonia, denatured alcohol, oleic acid, linseed oil, castor oil, lecithin, lanolin, silk, ascorbyl palmitate vitamin C, rosemary oil, vitamin E, love, grapefruit seed extract, Organic Lavender flower essences.
May contain one or more of the following: aminophenol sulfate; aminophenol, methyl-resorcinol; napthol, 3-methyl-1-phenyl-5-pyrazolone; toluenediamine sulfate; ppd; 2 hydroxyethyl amino2-ethylphenol.
Developer: Water, buffered food grade hydrogen peroxide, jojoba oil, oleic acid, castor oil, linseed oil, organic lemon grass essential oil, acrylic copolymer.
Tints of Nature
Irish seaweed (known for its conditioning properties) Wheat amino acids (known for their ability to add strength and body) Oleic acid (emollient moisturizer) Lauramide DEA (Vegetable fat to protect and thicken) Bixa orellana-annatto (natural food colourants) Red beet (Natural beetroot colour).
Herbatint
Ingredients
Water, Nonoxynol-6, Nonoxynol-4, Ethanolamine, Propylene Glycol, EDTA, Sodium Metabisulfite, Walnut Extract, Rhubarb Extract, Cinchona Extract, P-phenylenediamine, Resorcinol, O0aminophenol, M-aminophenol. Water, Glycol, Hydrogen Peroxide, Etidronic Acid, EDTA. Does not contain Ammonia.
If using chemical based color on your hair, try a color patch first to make sure the color does not break your hair out. My girlfriend suggested she do the back of her hair because it's the strongest, and she can always cover it up if it breaks off. Color is one the hardest things on the hair, so be sure to seek professional help if you need to, and protect your hair before and after your color treatment.
For protecting your hair, after any type of colored treatment try vegetable glycerin, olive oil, honey, rose water, and if desired or needed seal with shea butter.
Beware, your curl pattern may change in the form of being more defined and more coily, as in the case of mine after color treating your hair.
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