Henna additional stuff.

[halimede]

Certainly of interest to marycrawford: HennaPlus Botanical Fixin Gel Lac Mega Strong is good for fixating henna. You need a blow dryer handy and work in layers, because otherwise it runs orange, but it does work well. And the perfume isn't too bad. Unfortunately I have now overdone it on the henna (so much work, not happy about how the designs are coming out)

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[marycrawford]

Aiee! Sorry to hear that.

BTW: 50/50 olive oil/lemon or lime juice - good or bad for henna tats? (This is what I use on my hands when I'm not using rose glycerine. Which turns out to have quite the long ingredient list, BTW.)

[halimede]

It should be perfect for henna, being both acidic (henna needs acid to stain) and oily, which stops your skin from flaking off. I've never mixed the two for my hands, though, only for salads and the pasta dish we had last wednesday. I use plain olive oil for skin, or as an ingredient in a salt scrub. How does the lemon juice help?

And yeah, the most innocuous looking products tend to have loads of stuff in them that I'm not crazy about putting on my skin. Mineral oils, usually, PEG stuff, ethyl & methyl parabens, propylene glycol. All sorts of ick.