fine-tuning the comparisons

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on October 18, 1999 at 20:12:00:

In Reply to: Re: Favorite method for applying henna posted by Kenzi on October 18, 1999 at 19:29:43:

Coffee DOES NOT change the color in and of itself. However, it is
convenient, you can boil up other things with it, and if your coffee
is HOT when you add it, it will goose up the dye release. (Heat makes
the molecules expand, and this makes them bind more readilly.) The
Arabic countries that regularly use coffee to improve their henna
color have clove, cardamom and suchlike in their coffees, and THOSE
really DO make the difference! Not...IF caffiene slips through the
skin into your blood-bearing layer, I can see how this might warm the
skin. That, too, would help the henna. In side by side tests, the
coffee, tea, and several other additives did not make a visible
difference. Clove makes a visible difference. Heat makes a visible
difference. Wraps make a visible difference. Euc oil is moot...some
see a difference, some don't.

Follow-ups:

• Re: fine-tuning the comparisons Kenzi 03:18:00 10/19/99 (3)
  • Re: fine-tuning the comparisons Anon 04:47:42 10/19/99 (2)
    • Re: fine-tuning the comparisons Kenzi 04:56:08 10/19/99 (1)
      • heating lemon/clove/sugar juice Lauren 14:50:09 10/19/99 (0)