Organic hair color: This distinguishes it from conventional color

Everyone knows what distinguishes organic food from ordinary products, but what does organic mean when it comes to hair color? We explain the difference between organic products and conventional hair color.

This distinguishes organic hair color from ordinary colorants

We explain the difference that the prefix "organic" makes to hair colors.

• While conventional hair dyes on a chemical basis lighten or color hair, organic hair dyes are based on herbal ingredients.
• The basis can be, for example, henna or various leaves or flowers.
• Instead of breaking up the outer hair layer and storing pigments like a conventional chemical-based hair color, natural hair colors enclose each hair with color and thus ensure that the original hair color still shines through.
• Similar to conventional hair colors, you can also choose between numerous color shades for natural hair colors, only lightening the hair is not possible with natural colorants.
• There is also a selection of different shelf lives of the color. So you can choose between tints, intensive tints and permanent colors. While the tints become weaker with multiple washes, hair colors remain until they grow out.

Comparison of conventional and organic hair colors

Since both herbal and chemical hair dyes have various advantages and disadvantages, we want to give you an overview.

• Organic hair colors impress with their compatibility, both in terms of the scalp and the hair. The dyeing process with natural substances, in which the hair is only enclosed with color and not broken open, is much gentler than a chemical treatment.
• Also, numerous components of chemical hair colors are not entirely harmless to health. They often contain substances that are suspected of being carcinogenic and for this reason are even prohibited in other cosmetic products and textiles.
• While natural hair colors give a beautiful natural color, they can neither lighten the hair nor achieve a very dark, intense color. Even gray coverage is only possible with them to a limited extent, often you can still see the original hair color. The individual result with organic hair colors is therefore always strongly dependent on the original hair color.

In our next article, you will learn what options are available to naturally lighten your hair. Because that too can be done without chemicals.