With the ageing process setting in, greying of hair is natural for majority of people. One can see an occasional person without whitening of the hair, but this is a rarity. Along with the greying of hair, there are worries dawned upon people about their aged looks, more so in recent years, where lots of middle aged people are having white hairs. Since having black hair is considered healthy, people do not like to have grey hairs on their head and go out for different types of remedies to add black shine. There are many home-made remedies to combat this problem, for example use of Reetha powder or even indigo powder helps maintain the natural color of hair.

• Rush to solve greying with dyes engendering harmful effects

Present day market is full of such products, made from chemical, which claim jet black hair for the users. Use of these hair dyes has become rampant with various salons and beauty parlours providing the impetus. People visit these parlours in search of doing something with their grey hairs and end up putting chemical colours on their hair. The readily available indigo hair dye is the commonly sold commodity. But, more than the benefits of looking young with black hair, there are harms of using these chemical dyes, ranging from further greying to allergic reactions of the scalp. With this backdrop, it is but obvious that the herbal hair dyes are gaining prominence, although people are still in trying stages.

• Age old proven herbal dyes for covering up greying hairs

Herbal hair dye containing indigo or Reetha powder can be used for giving a different tinge to the hair, even though these colours are not usually black. Such combinations are acceptable because of the lack of any side effects on the scalp. In older days, ladies used to apply reetha and henna powder on their hairs, to give a reddish tinge of henna colorhair and at the same time, providing nourishing effects on the hair. Reetha is supposedly one of the herbal products, along with shikakai which provides conditioning to the hair, making the coloured or black hair shiny and smooth.

Nowadays, a lot of people are checking out the henna and indigopowder combinations from the market and applying on their hair. Even beauty salons are providing completely organic treatments for grey hairs using these combinations of herbal extracts. With these products of reetha, henna, shikakai and indigo hair dye available in the market, people can try out different combinations to get different kinds of colours on their hair, apart from the henna color hair, which is usually tinged reddish. By adding curd or indigo, the hues can be altered to give the hair fresh and shiny look, without causing any damage like those of the chemical dyes.