Henna Color Your Natural Hair Color Black Dark Brown Medium Brown Light Brown Red Dark Blonde Medium Blonde Black Deep Black Deep Black Black - - - - Red Red Highlight Dark Auburn Auburn Red Flame Red Flame Red - Sherry Slight Red Highlight Sherry Red Medium Auburn Light Auburn Bright Red Bright Red - Mahogany Mahogany Highlight Dark Auburn Medium Auburn Auburn Bright Red Red - Burgundy Slight Highlight Burgundy Dark Auburn Medium Auburn Red Chestnut Red - Dark Brown Warm Shine Highlight Shine Deep Brown - - - - Medium Brown Warm Shine Highlight Shine Warm Medium Brown Red Brown Chestnut Red Brown Chestnut Chestnut - Light Brown - - Highlight Shine Light Brown Shine Warm Brown Warm Light Brown Copper - - Highlight Shine Red Copper Red Gold Highlight Dark Copper Warm Copper Strawberry - - Highlight Shine & Condition Strawberry Highlight & Condition Red Highlight Shine Strawberry Blonde Warm Strawberry Blonde Marigold Blonde - - Gold Highlights Lighter Cold Brown Golden Red Brighter Gold Blonde Medium Gold Blonde Neutral Shines, Conditions and adds additional depth to your natural color. Cam also be used as a "neutralizer" when added with other Henna colors.

How Henna is Colored

Currently the line of Henna offered by Mountain Rose Herbs is made exclusively with Lawsonia inermis, with other botanical ingredients included for the purpose of creating the many different shades which we have to offer.
Mountain Rose Herbs Henna is colored using one or more of the following botanical methods which are included into the Henna during manufacture.....

Henna leaf (Lawsonia inermis)
Henna Bark (Lawsonia inermis)
Indigo leaf and stalk
Calendula petals
Chamomile flowers
Hibiscus flowers
Alkanet root

The Calendula and Chamomile are used to lighten certain Henna colors, the Hibiscus and Alkanet are use to add Red highlights, and the Indigo is used to darken some of the Henna colors. The Indigo is a natural shrub in the legume family that thrives in dry and almost poor conditions. To date most of it is commercially grown in India, but the Chinese and other Southeast Asian countries are growing it with much success. There is a fabulous profile of it on Botanical.com, please see..... http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/i/indigo05.html
But we should point out that this published material is over 75 years old and in that time there have been several more introduced Indigo varieties that are being employed for coloring reasons. For a more recent profiles, please see....
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/med-aro/factsheets/INDIGO.html

 

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