Abstract

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF HERBAL HAIR DYE USING HENNA

Abhishek N. Morkhade, Aniket K. Keshave, Sonal S. Umate and *Vaishnavi S. Vairagade

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Abstract

Hair dye is important cosmetic item for not only women but also for men. Synthetic dye-based hair dye or permanent hair dyes consist of two component-colour and developer. Most of them are powerful irritants and have been implicated powerful irritates in several type of allergies and other therapeutic problems. Other irritant ingredients include H2O2 and naphthol. Hair dye solid in Europe union containing any of the ingredient need to carry a warning can cause an allergic reaction containing an ingredient that can penetrate your skin has been determined to cause cancer. If we use permanent or semi-permanent hair color dye and hair dye shampoo continuously we are increasing the risk of developing breast cancer. Prolonged uses of the hair dye generally cause a local irritation and skin toxicity problems. The use of hair colour is not new. The art of hair dyeing was used by Egyptians from vegetables dyes from the early 5000 years BC. The first artificial dye was synthesized in 1856, and permanent hair colorants have been used commercially for over 100 years. Henna was the most popular and is still one of the popular dyes. But instead of getting black color, red to copper red color was obtained. Loss of natural hair color is due to varied reason like genetic influence, effect of environmental factors. Though permanent synthetic hair dyes are available in varied color ranges, they have the disadvantage of producing hypersensitive reactions also studies have shown permanent hair colour have produced cancer.[5]

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