Henna gives a natural color !!! - (Heena Removal -Jan'09)

Basically, Henna gives a natural colour. It is applied on the skin and it remove naturally within a one or two weeks. It should good for the skin to shed it naturally. Many women are put on cream of henna removal. Some peoples apply natural herbal oil on the particular portion of the body and wash it away to remove henna. It is best for the particulars skin to shed the henna naturally, but many times for some personal and professional conditions it is necessary to remove henna designs.

• Tattooed area should be washed in salt water for 15 minutes. Salt removes some of the stain.

• One should soak the hands or particular part of skin in a chlorinated hot tub. This method makes the henna colour lighter in colour and also this procedure can be repeated.

• One can apply a heena removal cream to the affected skin area. Henna works by absorbing into the top layers of skin only, by scrubbing your skin roughly can help to speed its removal.

• Sweat makes the skin to shed the colour more quickly. This won't remove it immediately, but it will speed up the process in conjunction with other methods.

• Wash more often to accelerate henna removal. Using antibacterial soap and a loofah on the henna stain each day will remove it quickly.

• Rub hydrogen peroxide onto the henna stain with a cotton ball. After few minutes, the stain gets lighten.

• Stronger soaps, like a soak in the hot tub, cause skin to shed to a greater degree. To remove the henna colour sooner, choose the antibacterial soap instead of regular glycerin.

do you know - how long does henna last:-

Henna is a small plant generally grown in hot and dry climates; its leaves are grinded into a powder. The powder gives us a copper colored pigment after mixing with some ingredients. Actually henna colour last for 2 weeks. It depends on where the design is done. Henna works by giving permanent colour to the outer layers of the epidermis. So the dark henna darkens the colour of henna design. Henna likes the skin to be thick, dry and more alkaline than acidic. The palms and the feet stain the darkest and it may last the longest. Henna colour can be shed on using strong soap and hand washing. After putting on henna designs one should not wash the skin for atleast twelve hours.

By adding necessary oils in Henna Paste it releases beautiful copper colour on the skin. While drawing henna design on hands, we have made sure the skin is oily or lotion free specially in summer which will block henna taking to the skin. If any of the above lotions are on the skin, wash with soap and water. Henna reacts with the temperature of the skin, so it is not getting the darken colour quickly. Firstly it get orange colour. This is normal colour but it get darken within a day. Only when ones go to sleep your temperature rises and your skin sweats, so this is when henna is changing colour to dark brown.

The length of Henna design will stay depending upon certain factors:-

• How many times you wash your hands

• What kind of soap you use

• Your skin quality and heat in your body

• Which particular part of the Henna on the body

• The material you add to your henna paste