Indigofera Tinctoria
The Tinctoria indigofera is a shrub of one or two meters.
It can be annual, biennial or perennial depending on the climate where it is grown.
It has light green leaves and pink-purple flowers.
This plant is a legume so it is grown in the fields to improve the soil.
The dye is obtained by processing the plant.
The leaves are immersed in water and left to ferment to transform the glucoside they indicate already present in the plant into the indigotine blue dye.
At the end of the processing, a bright green powder with a coloring power is obtained.
The henna is never black though in the market you can find dyes called "black henna".
Some of these are presented with black-brownish powder because they probably
contain PPD (para phenylenediamine);others may be mixtures of indigo with other herbs.
If the powder has a brown color and wetting it immediately becomes black with a metallic odor this is not pure indigo!
It is not indigo, but chemicals that can hurt.
That is why it is good to always read the inci so that there is written only Indigofera Tinctoria or at most the addition of other herbs such as junglas regia (walnut husk)
The Indigofera Tinctoria powder, on the other hand, has a beautiful green color
with a smell reminiscent of frozen peas.
The indigo body art quality is chemical-free, 100% natural and comes with a very fine powder.
With the indigo it is possible to color the hair in black or mixed in the right proportions to obtain other shades.
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