If the idea of offering a natural break to your hair with a less aggressive vegetable coloring seduces you, you would like to know more before you start. Method, advantages, disadvantages … We tell you everything!
You tend to favor the organic In your life, whether in your diet or in your care, and you also want to take the plunge for coloring your hair, with a vegetable dye. An idea all the more relevant if you notice that your scalp is becoming more and more sensitive following your many chemical colors. But a vegetable coloring, What is it exactly?
A vegetable coloring is 100 % natural
To be considered as vegetable, a coloring must be composed exclusively of natural ingredientsnamely different plant powders with or not henna in the composition. These powders with various pigments will then be mixed with hot water to obtain a paste which will then be applied to your hair for a more or less long exposure time.
Unlike chemical pigments that penetrate in depth into hair fiber to modify the natural color of the hair, natural pigments, they will only do Cover the fiber. This method will thus not only make it possible not to damage the hair, but also to offer it a protective barrier. Banco!
What are the advantages of vegetable coloring?
Vegetable coloring is not content not to attack the hair, it will also make it more flexible and brighter only with a classic coloring. Always good to take!
It will also allow less marked regrowth because natural pigments will mix with the pigments already present in the fiber, and, contrary to popular belief, its duration is equivalent to that of oxidation colors.
Finally, you can turn without risk to this method if you are pregnant or if you are breastfeeding.
What are the disadvantages of vegetable coloring?
No one is perfect, you know, and vegetable coloring also has some drawbacks that can discourage some. So you will be more limited in the choice of colors : No problem obviously to enhance your brown hair with pretty red reflections, impossible on the other hand to exchange your magnificent dark brown for a pretty blond honey. Coloring will not lighten the hair And will simply be able to rekindle blond and clear chestnuts a bit dull.
For them white hairit will be necessary to arm with patience, with a fairly long exposure time up to 3 hours – compared to the 30 minutes for a chemical coloring – and a variable result. This variability must also be taken into account in general: vegetable coloring is not an exact science and the color obtained can be different from one person to another.
You will also have to wait several months before you can, if you wish, dye your hair with a chemical color so that it can effectively penetrate the hair fiber. Finally, take into account the fact that it can cause allergies, such as when you are allergic to a plant or a fruit. It is therefore always preferable to carry out a test on the wrist 48 hours before.
Where to make your vegetable coloring?
For a first try, we advise you to go to a organic hair salon as Biocoiff ‘ Or even with a professional who can offer you vegetable colors signed L’Oréal Professionnel for example, or even Gaia, Hairborist and Vitanatur colors.
And at home, what brands trust? We think of Aroma Zonewhich offers Henned without additivesbut also Khadi whose products are carried out in collaboration with Indian experts, Logona and even Garnier with its Herbalia range.
