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Surya Cream Henna Review

by dev16
(Canada)

I have an allergy to hair dye--ppd. The reaction involves burning, itching, intense rash, swollen glands etc. In my quest to find a natural hair dye that covers grey (35-40%) I tried Surya Henna.

Overall it's great for the hair, my hair was richer, fuller, shinier than it's ever been and grey coverage was complete. It was also easy to use.

The only problem was that my greys would turn weird colors -- purple or a neon/metallic red. I used the natural black and the dark brown and neither worked for me (actually embarrassing). In sunlight you were able to really notice how 'off' the color was.

However, I think with little to no grey this could be a very good hair dye. I just had too much grey for it to work (and hovering around 40, I'm too old to pull off the weird colors). I do want to note that they do use azo dyes which aren't the greatest, but the other ingredients do a wonderful job at conditioning the scalp and hair.

EDITOR'S NOTES:

Below are the ingredients for Surya Cream Henna (I randomly chose Ash Blonde just as an example):

Water/Aqua, Ethoxydiglcol(and)Methylpyrrolidone, Tall Oil Acid(and)Ethylene Glycol(and)Cocamide Dea (and) Diethanolamine (and) Monoethanolamine (and) Oleamide Mipa, Acrylates Copolymer(and) PPG-1 Trideceth-6 (and) Mineral Oil,Lawsonia Inermis(Henna)Leaves Extract, Arnica Montana Extract, Phyllanthus
Emblica(Amla),Fruit Extract, Paullinia Cupana(Guarana), Fruit Extract, Honey Extract, Chamomilla Recutita(Matricaria)Extract, Achillea Millefollum(Yarrow)Extract, Malva Sylvestris (Mallow)Extract, Coryhis Rostrata (Hazel), Seed Extract, Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Root Extract, Euterpe Oleracea(Acal) Fruit Extract, Ziziphus joaseiro (jua) Bark Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Malpighia Punicifolia (Acerola) Fruit Extract, Berttholletia Excelsa (Brazil Nut) Seed Extract

May contain: HC Yellow 2, HC Yellow 4, HC Yellow 5, Disperse Blue 3, Disperse Blue 7 HC Red 1, HC Red 3, Disperse Black 9, Disperse Violet 1, HC Blue 2

While this product does contain many good for your hair natural ingredients that henna is known for it also contains synthetic ingredients. As you know ingredients are listed in descending order with the first ingredients making up more of the product than the last ingredients. Very different than the all natural ingredients used in other henna products mentioned on this site.

Also as the reviewer mentioned azo dyes (HC Yellow, Disperse Blue etc.) are used. These are synthetic dyes and are used in the Surya Cream Henna which is the product you would use for coloring gray. Surya does make a Powder Henna with all natural ingredients.

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Surya Henna Cream (black)
by: jc

After using one brand of hair color to cover my grays for quite a few years, I develop allergies about a year ago. I tried several hair-dyes, including a couple of natural dyes and continued to have allergies.

The last treatment turned out to be the worst I have experienced - my hair stylist used a Korean henna on my hair which she said worked very well with another client of hers who used to have allergies. The allergies -blisters, secretions, and itch on the scalp, neck area and both forearms were so bad I finally went to my doctor after it continued into the 4th week.

My doctor said that I should have sought medical help immediately and prescribed prednisone (oral), triamcinolon (cream for arms, and lotion for scalp) all of which are steriods but helped immediately.

I used Surya Cream Henna a week ago but the color did not stay on and 5 days later, it looked like I did not color it at all. I tried again yesterday and after rinsing and blow-drying, again the color did not stay on.

The good thing is that my allergy reaction is only 5% of what I experienced most recently - only 1 blister in each of the neck area and crown with very mild itching. The product box claims that it is guaranteed to cover gray and white gray on the first application. What did I do wrong?

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BRONZE HIGHLIGHTS
by: Anonymous

i had been using various semi perm and rinses on my hair for years until i developed a reaction, i switch products several times and still had same reaction, so i began searching online and found out about surya cream henna which i love, my only drawback is that like some others, my gray turns a bronze color, i've only tried black and dark brown, so maybe i should try mixing to completely cover the gray, although i've been told that my bronze color looks good, almost as if i've gotten highlights.

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i have a question
by: Anonymous

i have never used surya so far, but i want to.before that i want to confirm tht can i use it during pregnancy? i am in 3rd month, and want to know if using Surya cream would effect my baby.somebody can please let me know at sharon.sherry@ymail.com

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Love Surya, but!
by: Joanna

I do love it, but I can't find the CREAM in light ash brown. So I used the powder which, when applying by oneself, is a little awkward to use. Is there a CREAM ash brown made by Surya?
Thank you.

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Love it & keep using it
by: Anonymous

I completely agree with the other poster, btw you can try to mix 2 cream colors together to get the color you want. That's what I'm doing, as per my hair stylist recommendation, and the result is very natural color blended to my hair. I've tried mixing Mahogany with Dark Brown/Chocolate, the color is great to cover my gray.

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Love It & will Repurchase
by: Anonymous

I've been doing colour treatment in saloon for the last 15 years to cover my gray (70% gray), so my hair is dry & damaged, you just can't comb through. My girlfriend told me to tryout powder henna, which I don't like the mixing process. I've done some research and found out Surya Cream Henna is no mixing & cheap with reasonable shipping charge from iherb.com. I've tried Mahogany colour, but I left the plastic cap on over 2 hours with 20 min under the hair- dryer. The result is soft, shiny and the colour is just like what I got from the saloon for colour treatment. I've saved myself $90 by using Surya Cream Henna, so I'm a happy camper with it right now.

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