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Organic Beauty Recipes By Eve

Blonde Henna Hair Recipe To Cover Greys

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Prep Time 12 hours
Total Time 12 hours
Servings: 1
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • Wooden or Glass Mixing Bowl
  • Wooden Mixing Spoon
  • Vinyl and rubber gloves
  • Plastic Shower Cap
  • 100 gram 1 bag Blonde Henna powder Cassia obovata
  • 50 g of chamomile tea essential to bring blond highlights
  • 3 cups Filtered Water or enough to form a thick paste
  • 1 tablespoon Lemon juice 1 tablespoons. Make sure you don’t use too much lemon juice as it can dry your hair. Using lemon will help to give blond highlights to your hair.
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1 tablespoon of organic honey
  • OPTIONAL: 1 teaspoon of Amla

Method
 

  1. Boil the water and add the chamomile flower tea.
  2. Do a decoction, boil it for 5-10 minutes
  3. Let steep overnight for best results.
  4. Strain out flowers.
  5. Put the Blonde Henna powder, honey, turmeric and alma powder if used into a mixing bowl and mix in lemon juice.
  6. Add the brewed chamomile spoon by spoon while mixing, until it is the consistency of thick yogurt.
  7. The mixture should not drip from the spoon but look like a thick paste that can be easily spreadable.
  8. Cover with a plastic wrap, and let sit for 4 hours at a min or better overnight.
  9. Using gloved hands, apply henna to clean, dry hair.
  10. Put a shower cap on and let sit the henna mix recipe on your hair for 4 hours.
  11. Make sure there no henna on your face or hair line as it will stain your skin. Remove with a wet cotton pad if needed.
  12. After 4 hours remove the henna in the shower by running lukewarm on your hair until the henna is completely gone.
  13. Do not wash your hair for 24h to 48h to allow the color to settle.