This month's featured product
This month, save on Ancient Sunrise® Fruit Acid Powders and Hair Herbs and Spices. Henna and cassia will dye your hair most effectively when mixed with an acidic liquid, such as diluted lemon juice. If you don't have fresh fruit juice handy, use one of the Ancient Sunrise® fruit acids below! All of the Ancient Sunrise® acids can be kept indefinitely, and are ready to use. There is no need to scrounge around in your house or run to the store for juice to mix with your henna. Each one has slightly different characteristics so you can choose the one that will give you the results you want.

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Catherine's Curiosities - Articles on henna and hair by Catherine Cartwright-Jones, PhD

This month, we continue our presentation of each of the chapters of "Ancient Sunrise Henna for Hair" by Catherine Cartwright-Jones, PhD, a free, downloadable e-book about how and why to use henna as an alternative to commercial chemical hair dyes.

Ancient Sunrise Henna for Hair Book Chapter 3: Compound henna
Henna, lawsonia inermis, has ONE translucent dye color, rusty red-orange, based on the lawsone molecule precursors naturally produced in the henna leaf. The commercially available henna hair dyes that come in “colors,” such as black, brunette, chestnut, blonde, and so on, are compound hennas. These products have additives to change the color of henna. The additives may be other plants, toxic metallic salts, chemical dyes, ingredients that have quasi-spiritual claims, and para-phenylenediamine to create a range of colors.
Read more: http://www.tapdancinglizard.com/AS_henna_for_hair/3_compound_henna.pdf




Tips and Techniques

For Earth Day, we used Becoming Moonlight products to transform Michelle, our inventory supervisor, into an Earth goddess.
View the video: https://vimeo.com/264267548
You can see the result here: https://www.mehandi.com/article-a/396.htm






From our blogs
Eyebrow Henna
“Okay Google…search ‘eyebrow henna.'”
A robotic voice replies, “Here are the results from the search.”
My thumb swipes upwards in a circular motion as I scroll through hundreds of results and several services offering “henna” for eyebrows. The biggest disappointment is that none of the results show pure henna.
Read more: https://www.ancientsunrise.blog/eyebrow-henna/


Henna is Not Black: Stopping the Illegal Use of Para-phenylenediamine (PPD) on Skin
It happens every summer. As soon as school lets out and families go on vacation, a handful of news reports go viral about a vacationer getting a “black henna” tattoo and ending up in the hospital. Too often, they are children. Severe reactions to “black henna” can result in painful, weeping blisters, permanent scarring, and a multitude of other symptoms. In some cases, a reaction may be life-threatening.
Read more: http://www.becomingmoonlight.blog/2018/06/12/henna-is-not-black/


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