premix vs. homemade (sorry so lengthy)
Posted by Nancy Mc on August 26, 2001 at 03:39:53:
Hello out there in the henna world...I've been doing henna for about three years and very early on in this
journey, I would mix batch after batch of henna and record all my
ingredients, observations, length of stain, color...etc. It was
extremely time consuming....
It may have been from reading about some pre-mix on the forum that I
ordered mehndi mud. At first it was fabulous....it was the darkest
stain I had ever gotten and I could keep it onhand longer than
freshly mixed. So, I continued to use pre-mixed, switching to other
suppliers and trying their products. My stains only last about a
week and a half and I'm not getting the dark colors I was previously
getting (consistently).
There's so much talk about the essential oils, such as pine, cajeput
(or however you spell it)....that I feel like I'm cheating my
customers out of a better product. I keep telling myself that it's
easier to just whip out the tube of paste....I have 2 kids and
limited time....
and I do henna pretty regularly but not always and I need to always
have something on hand.
So, after all this.....Should I go back to the drawing board??? I
feel like I tout myself as a purist but don't even mix my own. I
also tell myself it is too much trouble to have to mix each batch and
let it sit, etc. and I'll have to wait....and on and on
Help.
I'm overloaded...and need some simple advice and a simple up to date
recipe..there's only a million out there. and some simple info on
mixing up at home.
Thanks....sorry for the rant.
I want to give people what they pay for and I'm definitely not
getting a long lasting stain.
Nancy
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- Re: premix vs. homemade
Catherine Cartwright Jones 04:40:14 8/26/2001
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