Avoid henna makeup, a bizarre viral trend that can burn your face

For a lot of us, henna (or mehendi) is mostly a way to decorate our hands and feet with sensational styles. On daring days, we may even utilize it in our hair for a tip of reddish colour, thinking it to be a much safer option to severe hair dyes. In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, surprises are constantly around the corner.

A couple of months back, the pattern of synthetic freckles removed, with influencers producing fragile dots on their cheeks and noses utilizing henna cones to attain a freckled appearance.

Now, the henna pattern has actually reached brand-new heights, with individuals exploring by utilizing it for full-face makeup—– using it as eye liner, lip tint, and more. While imagination is constantly amazing, this is one social networks pattern you may wish to avoid!

Laden with chemicals

Henna is the name of a medical plant (Lawsonia inermis), and mehendi is made from the dried leaves of the henna plant. The leaves are ground into powder or paste and utilized as dyes.

Dr Piyusha Bhagde, creator and chief skin doctor at Skin Ethics Clinic, Akola, Maharashtra, informs India Today that the mehendi stemmed from the henna plant has an active component called lawsone, which offers it an orange-red colour by oxidation on contact with skin.

The physician includes that the henna offered in the market consists of lots of active chemicals like p-phenylenediamine (PPD), silver nitrate, carmine, and chromium.

To this, Dr Aditi Wadhwa, expert, department of dermatology, Sharda Care, NCR, includes that paraphenylenediamine (PPD) is typically discovered in black henna. This is an artificial color utilized to produce a really dark stain. Natural henna produces a reddish-brown colour, so if an item provides a jet-black colour, it most likely consists of PPD.

Salt picramate is a chemical that is in some cases included to henna to make it stain darker or appear more lively.

Dr Wadhwa even more informs us that pre-mixed henna pastes might include preservatives or stabilisers to increase service life, which are not present in natural henna.

“All these are understood to trigger allergies like itching, burning, inflammation, blisters, and even scarring of the skin,” Dr Bhagde shares.