Re: Lysitus Spina Christi


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Posted by Catherine Cartwright-Jones on October 11, 2004 at 14:17:56:

In reply to: Lysitus Spina Christi posted by Christine on October 11, 2004 at 14:01:08:

: My apologies if this is a subject that has been beaten to death, but
: I can't find anything about it.
:
: A local store is selling Lysitus Spina Christi as Neutral Henna.
: Does anyone know if or how this stuff compares to Cassia/Senna? I'm
: interested in conditioning more than color.

For a start .... there's no such animal. I freekin loathe people who
don't bother find out what they're selling ... grab it, mark it up,
play on people's gullability and ignorance. Grrrrrrrrrrr. There is
such a thing as Zizyphys spina-christi. and ... sometimes that goes
into hair mixes.... and is a famine food. If you google on that
you'll come up with a bit of this and that. There's tannins in it.

I think cassia obovata's got more hair-friendly molecules in it ....

 


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