Natural herbal heir dye
How Organic Hair Dye Works
Reason for natural-looking Hair Dye
How Chemical Hair Dye and Organic Herbal Hair Dye Work
Before we look at how different hair dyes work, let's look at hair structure.
Each strand of hair, or hair shaft, is comprised of three layers:
The medulla is the innermost layer; the cortex is the middle layer, which contains keratin (proteins) and melanin which gives natural color to hair; and the cuticle is the outermost layer with overlapping scale-like cells that protect the hair’s inner structure.
Natural-looking Hair color
How Organic hair Dyes Work
Plant pigments dissolved in water bind to the proteins in the cortex, which dye the hair. Organic hair dye cannot depigment melanin. It will not dye hair that is darker than the product’s color.
While color retention is good, the cuticles are damaged
How Chemical Hair Dyes Work
Chemicals are used to open up the cuticle and to strip natural hair color and melanin off the hair.
Chemicals oxidize and deposit new colors into the cuticle and cortex.
100% Organic Hair Dyeing
Important Notes on Use
Ion adsorption mechanism
Colors stay up to 30 days
Colour Me Organic is a natural semi-permanent hair color is made from organic plant pigments which react with gray and white hair proteins. Colors stay up to 30 days.
Colour Me Organic will only work on hair that is lighter than the product color.
Colour Me Organic uses only natural plant pigments, so it does not have the strength of chemical dyes. It will not dye hair that is darker than the product’s color.
If conditioners and hair products remain in the hair, it will not dye properly.
If there are oils from conditioners and hair treatment, they will repel the water-based plant pigment solution, which results in a weak color.
Paste must be mixed thoroughly with water to dye the hair.
If powder is not mixed well enough, the plant pigments clump up and are unable to pass through the cuticle, resulting in a weak color.
When there is too much moisture in the hair, the pigments cannot reach the cortex.
If there is too much water in the hair, the plant pigment solution does not penetrate into the hair, resulting in a weak color.
Alkaline water removes henna pigment from hair
The pigment component of henna is called Lawsone. Lawsone does not stick to hair when there is alkaline water present.
Please keep this in mind when using henna-based colors such as strawberry blondes, caramel blondes, and reddish blondes.
Alkaline shampoo removes plant pigment from hair
The pigment component of henna is called Lawsone. Alkaline shampoo foams can remove Lawsone from the hair. Soap sits at the higher end of the pH scale, around the 9 - 10 mark (higher pH means more alkaline). Soap-based shampoo bars are more alkaline than the natural pH of your hair. Soap’s alkalinity combined with alkaline water can result in tangled hair and color loss.
