Henna recipe with COCA-COLA!!???

Posted by Carrie on January 21, 2000 at 05:43:04:

I met a woman the other day in an arabic/indian market who was buying
henna for her hair. Of course, I started the "I do mehndi if you're
interested" speech.

We chatted a bit, and she told me her mother always put Coca Cola in
her henna. In both the hair and the skin staining recipes!!

I didn't think they had Coca Cola in India, but she explained to me
she was raised in America, and was only half Indian, and her mother
had been doing it this way since around 1970, when she married and
moved here.

She says it "froths". I'm thinking that it provides both stickiness
and acidity. Coca Cola CAN eat the paint off your car, so acidity is
high, I'm thinking. Why would it be frothing-carbonation? Reaction to
some other component?

Wouldn't it be funny if this were the 'holy secret ingredient'??

Anyone out there EVER hear of or try this?

Carrie

Follow-ups:

• COCA-COLA Eliz. 20:22:30 1/23/00 (6)
  • Re: COCA-COLA Carrie 06:14:20 1/24/00 (5)
    • Caffeine Through The Skin SeeSee 23:24:49 1/24/00 (4)
      • Re: Caffeine Through The Skin andi 02:24:47 1/31/00 (0)
      • Re: Caffeine Through The Skin Kenzi 03:31:51 1/25/00 (2)
        • Coke, very OT Catherine Cartwright Jones 13:54:27 1/25/00 (1)
          • Re: Coke Amy C 04:23:34 1/27/00 (0)
• Re: Henna recipe with COCA-COLA!!??? Christine 00:23:34 1/22/00 (0)