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Has anybody used this stuff? I saw it at my local health food store and I checked out their website. It's supposed to be less harmful to hair than other brands. It's kind of pricey, though, so I thought I'd get some feedback.
Yeah, I know--coloring is bad. But my natural color is so bizarre I'm kind of stuck.
I say absolutely YES!!!! It’s one of the products I’ve used because I refuse to employ ammonia…. What’s best is that you can make a semi perm out of it by using a Glycol developer (I don’t like peroxide either… especially when your hair is over 4 years old… the last thing you want to do is start lifting the cuticle, I’d rather “coat” my hair with colour)… I like to mix mine to customize my tint… usually the henna red with copper chestnut… cause I’m a flashy kinda gal… NO DAMAGE… leaves your hair super conditioned… (I don’t know what kind of effects you’d have on grey) but the colour is gorgeous! The only problem is it DOES stain skin… I think more so than traditional hair colour… I had some on my arm for almost three days… they used to sell it at Whole Foods Market… I couldn’t purchase it there anymore so I went to Clairol Beautiful Collection, no peroxide, no ammonia, and enriched with vitamin E, Jojoba, and Aloe Vera…
Included is an older picture (over a year ago) when I used to use the Herbatint… and the results I got mixing Henna Red with Copper Chestnut (in pic my hair is also blow dried straight)… I’m a natural brunette so my colour choices tend to be limited… remember… NO AMMONIA… this stuff does an excellent job of colouring even dark hair without harsh chemicals… obviously I could never use it to go blonde… but I love what I can do with it… one of the better brands of “natural coulouring agents”… much better than Naturtint… and MUCH MUCH better than Surya…
OK, I'm sold--thanks, Bordeaux!!!
In fact, it's actually the only permanent hair color I've ever used. It works great as far as coloring goes, but it does contain peroxide to lighten the hair (I made the mistake, when I had fairly short hair, of using peroxide before using a dye with peroxide in it, which turned my hair a bizarre kind of salmon-orange). That might cause damage.
If you aren't going for extreme length, and you take good care of your hair anyway, and don't already have any particular problems with breakage, then you may want to go for it.
You add the peroxide in the kit as the developer… you can substitute it with Glycol from a beauty supply shop… which DOES negate it’s permanency… (thus the semi perm wash out in 24 weeks)… but in this way you avert the damage…
;-)