100% Certified Organic Hair ColourECOCERT since 2012
Hair cannot repair itself, so whatever a colour does to a strand is still there three years later. Radico opens nothing — no developer, no peroxide — and an intact cuticle is what shine actually is. Your hair in three years is decided today.
Shop all 24 colours →The Shade Range
Five plant pigments — henna, indigo, manjistha, hibiscus and turmeric — blended in 24 ways, from Soft Black to Sun Blonde. Henna alone would give you one colour; the blending is what gives you a range. No ammonia, no PPD, no peroxide.
Pick Your Shade
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Still deciding?
See all 24 shades photographed on real hair, laid out side by side so you can spot the difference between close tones.
Avoiding a particular plant?
If you need to leave one ingredient out — because of a reaction, or because you don't want the tone it brings — these two collections are grouped by what they omit.
Real Results
Every photo below is a customer's own result, shared on Instagram — including gray coverage.
How the herbs are balanced changes how each shade behaves — see what that means for yours →
Photo by @ecohairhanna
Photo by @wakuorganics
30% Gray Covered
Photo by @salong_naturnara
Photo by @tuulanhiukset
Photo by @merry.fi
Photo by @ecohairhanna
30% Gray Covered
Photo by @arohatiina
Photo by @hiljaekokamamo
Photo by @merry.fi
40% Gray Covered
Photo by @naturalhairbyjofa
10 customers · Results vary with natural hair color, gray percentage, and porosity
Shop hair color →If you have never coloured with plants
There is no developer to measure, no bottle to shake, nothing to time to the minute. You stir a powder into warm water and put it on. That is the whole preparation.
What you are watching: the paste never goes into the strand. The colour is built on the outside, over the days that follow — which is why the last step is to leave it alone.
See the full instructions → New to colouring? The guide walks through the whole thing — plus timings for your exact shade, since browns finish fastest and ash tones take longest.Already using something “natural”?
Ammonia-free, herbal, henna-based, botanical — none of those words is regulated, and most products carrying them still work the way a conventional dye works. Your cuticle does not know how many herbs were in the formula. It only knows whether it was opened. The two pictures below are the whole difference.
The box that says natural
Still opens the hair to build colour inside
Radico Colour Me Organic
Builds the colour on the outside
How to check the box in your bathroom. If there is a developer, a second bottle, or PPD anywhere on the label, the plant ingredients are along for the ride. If it lists only plant names — and you can find it in a certification directory — it is what it says. Neither answer is a verdict on you. It is just what the box is.
Why it matters more than it sounds. Natural is not a scale you can be halfway up. Either the cuticle was opened this month or it was not — and the hair that was opened is still on your head next year, and the year after. The section below is about that.
Certified 100% organic by ECOCERT since 2012 · verify every shade in the COSMOS directory · natural vs certified, honestly
Why This Compounds
Hair is dead tissue. It cannot repair, and it cannot forget. Scalp hair grows about a centimetre a month and stays on your head for years — so the strand at your shoulder has been there for about two years, and everything done to it in that time is still in it.
Growth rate is an average; individual hair varies. Ages shown are approximate.
So here is a test that costs nothing. If you have been colouring with something “natural” for a few years, look at your ends and compare them with the new growth at your roots. Some roughness is sun, heat and brushing, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. But if the ends are noticeably worse than the roots, something has been opening the cuticle — and the word on the box did not stop it. Your hair kept the receipt.
An intact cuticle is what makes hair reflect light evenly, so the shine people read as healthy is largely a surface that is still smooth. Radico does not put that shine there. It leaves the cuticle you already have alone, so the shine you were born with has a chance of still being there in five years.
To be clear about what this is not: plant colour is not a treatment and not a repair. It cannot undo what is already in your ends. What it does is stop adding to the total — which, over the years a single hair is on your head, is the only thing that was ever available.
The part that is actually up to you
Colouring is not a decision you make once. It is a decision you make every four to six weeks, for as long as you colour — and each time, the same strand is there to receive it. The hair you colour today will still be on your head in 2030. What you put on it today is what it will be made of then.
That is the whole reason to go all the way rather than most of the way. The shine people call youthful is a cuticle that is still intact. Nothing puts it back. The only way to have it later is to have not taken it — and that is a choice made on the day you colour, not the day you notice.
The Front Shelf
Out of 46 products, these are the ten our customers order most often.
Dark Brown - Organic Hair Color
Soft Black - Organic Hair Color
Brown - Organic Hair Color
Ayurvedic Shampoo Bar - Certified Organic
Light Brown - Organic Hair Color
Ayurvedic Hair Treatment Powder - Organic Amla Reetha Shikakai Mix
Men's Soft Black - Organic Facial Hair Coloring
Champagne Blonde - Organic Hair Color
Men's Soft Black - Organic Hair Coloring
Copper Brown - Organic Hair Color
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24 Organic Shades
The Formula
There is no dye in the pouch — only ground plants. Pick a shade to see exactly which ones are in it, and what each is doing in the blend.
Every plant here is certified organic, and no shade uses all twelve. Ingredient lists run in order of quantity — so the first name is doing the most work.
What it does in the blend
Before and After the Colour
Neither of these is a daily shampoo, and we'd rather explain what each one is for than sell you both. One strips, one settles — and the difference between them is measurable on a pH meter.
Where our products sit
Our own readings, on a handheld meter. The shaded band is hair's own surface — the range everything is measured against.
Things you already know the taste of
The treatment powder sits just below hair's own range; the bar sits well above it. Everything else we make is on the acid side, because that's where you want a wash you use regularly. The bar is the one exception, and that is the whole point of it.
A true soap — five organic oils saponified, the way soap has been made for centuries. Its job is to strip. Conventional shampoos and conditioners leave silicone and polymer film behind, and plant pigment cannot bind through a film. One wash with this before you colour, and it's gone.
What we're less sure about: you'll read that alkalinity opens the cuticle so pigment binds better. Alkaline conditions do lift cuticle scales. Whether that measurably improves the result, we don't know — we haven't found a study, and we haven't run one. The residue is the part we're confident about.
Not for daily use, and not for 72 hours after colouring. Contains almond oil (a tree nut) and lavender oil, a known contact allergen. Don't use it if you react to either.
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Three fruits ground together — amla, reetha and shikakai. Reetha and shikakai carry saponins, which wash without a detergent. Its other job is acidity: after an alkaline wash, cuticle scales stand up and hair catches on itself. An acid rinse brings them back down.
An old pairing, not a new idea. Soap followed by an acid rinse is how hair was washed for a very long time before pH-adjusted shampoo existed. Mix it thin as a rinse, or thick as a fifteen-minute treatment — either brings the pH back down.
What we don't claim: that it promotes growth, prevents greying, or delivers vitamins into the hair. It's a wash and an acid rinse made from three certified organic fruits.
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3.9 out of 5 stars · 147 verified reviews
Love it! Great results, I need to order my 2nd one👍❤️
I am absolutly sold on this company and their products. Professional and true to their word in delivery and what the product actually does and does not do. Thank you
For natural looking graying brunette hair long (mid back) this product is perfect for providing color and shine naturally. The outcome after 90 minutes is wonderful. My daughter helped and it was easy and kind of fun. I am 75 with long graying hair. This product perked my look up right away. Perfection in a pouch:) Thank you
Tried other henna brands but none of them worked. When I discovered Radico I was not sure how the color will come out. First I tried Champagne Blonde which covered my grey hair well but the all over color was a little too light. Next I tried Beige blonde and it came out just the way I wanted to. The greys are light blonde and the rest of my hair darker beige and golden. The color smella very pleasant ( my cats are very attracted to it ). I am very happy to have discovered Radico colors since they are natural and none irritating.
Love it! Natural 100% organic my hair feels and looks great!!
Me funciono muy bien... lo volveré a repetir
Finally a product that does what it's supposed to and is all natural. A very good company with great service and customer communication. All this for a reasonable price product. Will be doing business again!
Love it.
I have fine hair and have been under the belief that my hair needs to be “squeaky clean” and then add a load of volumizing & super moisturizing conditioner to make it right. Radio’s shampoo bar doesn’t weigh it down or strip it -which feels odd at first, but that’s actually because my hair is not being stripped of its natural oils in the first place.
Sooo…..No more clumps of hair in the drain and no need for conditioner. My hair looks and feels great!
It made my hair feel very soft and healthy.
The color is exactly what I wanted, it looks so natural.
After having a stroke at a young age, I decided I would never again put chemicals on my head. When I found Radico, I was overjoyed. Not only is it both natural and organic, it’s also beautiful.
In covering my grey streaks, the product gives me what looks like highlights, which makes the end result look very natural and not from a bottle (or expensively done from a bottle).
Also, it leaves my hair looking shinier, healthier and stronger each time I use it. My hair gets thicker and more lush for weeks after a treatment. Not something I can say for a salon chemical color job.
Last but not least, they have great customer service. When they accidentally sent me just one package after I had ordered two, the team responded to my email about it immediately. They sent my second package out the same day. To be clear, I’ve only had an error like this one on my order once, after buying this product for years now.
Love love love.
After developing a work related chemical exposure allergy , my skin flared with any chemical dyes from then on.
Extremely thankful I found this 1 step protective Henna
Makes my thick, healthy , love the color !
I purchased the products using my brother’s address in Miami because unfortunately they are not available for sale in Colombia. I have already used the products and they worked very well for me. It also makes me happy to use a product that is good for my hair and for the planet. Muchas gracias.
Why Choose Radico
In 2012, Radico became the world's first hair color brand certified COSMOS ORGANIC by ECOCERT GREENLIFE — a standard that covers not only the ingredients, but the farming, the supply chain and the manufacturing behind them. Every shade is listed individually in the public directory.
Tap a certification to see what it screens for
Each of these looks at a different question, and one of them isn't about safety at all. What each one covers, plus our heavy metals lab report →
Every ingredient below is common in conventional hair color — and absent from Radico.
None of these are added to our formula. Heavy metals are the one worth explaining separately — they occur naturally in soil, so no plant product is entirely free of them, which is why we had a batch measured rather than printing "none". The lab report →
Tap any ingredient to see why we left it out
New to Herbal Hair Color?
Chemical Dyes
Fast and predictable,
using peroxide and ammonia
Temporary Rinses
Sit on the surface,
wash out again
Radico
Ground plants only,
no peroxide or ammonia
Henna's pigment forms a covalent bond with the keratin in your hair — it attaches to the fibre rather than resting on it, which is why plant colour wears down as the hair wears rather than rinsing away. Indigo works differently: it sits in the outer layers and deepens over the days after you rinse. Both need something from you first.
Every dark herbal shade is a warm colour with blue laid over the top. Henna bonds early, but indigo is still developing when you rinse — and it only develops while your hair stays damp. If the hair dries too fast, the blue stops arriving and the warmth underneath is what you see.
Which makes one instruction matter more than all the others: don't dry it. Not with a warm dryer, not with a cool one — the problem is the drying, not the heat. We tested this on grey swatches, and re-wetting afterwards did not bring the colour back.
Green at the rinse is the reaction running, not a fault — and it clears on its own. You'll see it most clearly on grey or light hair, because there's no pigment underneath to hide it.
Colour came out warmer than expected?
The most common thing that happens, and the one we hear about most. We'll send the same shade or a deeper one, free of charge.
Shade isn't the right match?
We'll help you find the one that is — or refund the colour, whichever you'd rather.
No conditions. No expiration.
Before Your First Application
Why test first? There is nothing in the pouch to force a fixed result — no peroxide, no developer — so where the colour lands depends on the hair it lands on. And because henna bonds to the fibre rather than sitting on it, it wears down gradually rather than washing out. One small test tells you what to expect before you commit.
Six Simple Steps
Then wait. Shades containing indigo keep developing for up to three days. Judge the test on day three, not the first evening — and expect a green stage in between if your hair is grey or light.
Where to go from here
You have read to the bottom of the page, which means you probably want something more specific than a shop button. Here is what is actually behind each door.
One
24 shades · one application
Every shade is ground plants and nothing else. None of them can lighten hair — they work with the base you have. If you are choosing between close tones, the colour chart is more use than the shop page.
Shop hair colour →Two
Twelve single herbs · two blends
One milled plant per pouch, and nothing added. Only two of the twelve actually wash hair, and we have grouped the rest by what they do rather than by what sounds appealing.
Shop hair care →Three
Nothing to buy on these pages
The longest pages on this site sell nothing. They exist because customers ask, and we would rather answer accurately than approximately — including where the answer is that we do not have the right product.
Colouring with plants for the first time
There are no chemical additives here to force a fixed result, so the outcome depends on the hair you already have. One small test tells you what your hair will do before you commit to all of it — and if the shade still isn’t right, we replace it or refund it. No conditions, no expiry.
Still not sure which shade? Send us a photo and what you are hoping for, and we will tell you honestly whether we have it — including when the answer is no. Contact us, or write to customer-service@radicousa.com.
