whiteflower results ... a camphor thing.....

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on January 15, 2000 at 20:53:02:

In Reply to: Been gone far too long...whiteflower results? posted by Dione on January 15, 2000 at 19:29:44:

Does White Flower Oil contain camphor? As I recall, it does... and
seems camphor is the active ingredient there....

Camphor is an extremely strong oxidant that has the ability to
penetrate skin cells. (This has an up side and a down side.) It will
considerably darken henna well down into the skin by oxidizing the dye
within the cells. It will hasten the dye release from powder. (this
creates as many problems as it solves....) It seems to hasten the
whole process.. (dye release, color sequence, staining exfoliation)..
so not only does your color come up fast, it goes away fast.

So, camphor and camphor products make henna darker, but there are
other ways to get your henna darker that might be better. Adding heat
to your wrapped henna via a heating pad, hot weather, warming yourself
at a fire, any of those "get it hot" things do the darkening job
better camphor (or white flower oil) and do it more safely. I think
the best results anyone got was in using camphor spirit as a prep, to
de-grease and oxidize the skin without creating problems in the paste.

Follow-ups:

• Re: whiteflower results ... a camphor thing..... kenzi 03:13:19 1/19/00 (0)
• Re: whiteflower results ... a camphor thing..... Amy L. 00:19:04 1/16/00 (8)
  • Camphor Eliz. 18:13:27 1/16/00 (7)
    • Re: Camphor Jenna 14:55:14 1/17/00 (6)
      • Re: Camphor Catherine Cartwright Jones 20:56:55 1/17/00 (5)
        • Re: Camphor P.J. 02:44:30 1/18/00 (4)
          • Re: Camphor Jenna 14:07:36 1/18/00 (3)
            • WOW! P.J. 15:00:00 1/19/00 (2)
              • Camphor spirit Catherine Cartwright Jones 15:37:28 1/19/00 (1)
                • Re: Camphor spirit Tina V 21:28:05 12/14/00 (0)