Abstract

FORMULATION OF NATURAL HAIR COLOURANTS FROM HERBS AND DRY-FRUIT HULLS FROM PAKISTAN

*Zafar Iqbal, Lubna Liaqat, Amran Waheed and Khalid Mahmood

Abstract

In the present investigation attempts were made to make a powder herbal hair dye from dry fruit hulls. Three combinations of hair dyes H1, H2 and H3 were made from plant materials like henna, peanut hull almond hull, walnut hull, amla and reetha hull were made to obtain brown hair dye. H1 dye delivered pale brown, H2 dye was medium brown and H3 dye gave dark brown color on the natural human hair. These natural herbal hair dyes were excellent colorant for all types of hairs. The results obtained from these dyes were excellent and economical without any side effects.

Keywords: Natural Herbs, Hull, Dyes, Dark Brown.