Blackening agents

As for henna and vasma, this is the basis on which people agree that their effect varies depending on the different predisposition of the hair to coloring. People first use henna, then use vasma after it, after washing off the henna, they leave both for quite a considerable time, and the longer they wait, the better. Some combine henna and vasma, while others limit themselves to henna and agree to make the hair light brown, while others limit themselves to vasma and agree to make the hair peacock. Good Indian vasma dyes faster, but is more variegated and light, while Kerman vasma dyes less and more slowly, but colors closer to the natural blackness of the hair, without much variegation in it. Whoever wants to return the coloring with wasma to the color of the hair and destroy the light brownness and bright shine, once again covers the vasma with henna, although he had already used henna before the vasma - this destroys the variegation and returns the color to the natural color of the hair. It is better not to keep it on your head for a long time, but to quickly wash it off, that is, the henna applied after the first coloring.

Sometimes people combine henna and wasma with sumac juice, pomegranate juice and rahiba water, or combine whey or nut shell moisture with henna and wasma, all of which help matters.

There are people who bind henna and wasma with water in which lead oxide and nuru have been treated, boiling or heating it in the sun until a woolen rag dipped in water turns black, this is also good. If you put dirhams of cloves in the paint, it strongly blackens and averts the harmfulness of the paint from the brain.

As for the other paint, which is used by many people, but not as much as the first one, it is made by taking galls, rubbing them with olive oil and burning them, best done in a cauldron coated with clay, and the limit of burning is until so that they can be dissolved, so that they are not zealous in this. They take twenty dirhams for burnt Gauls, ten dirhams for burnt copper, two dirhams for alum and one dirham for Andaranian salt. Dye is made from this, and it blackens the hair with a permanent blackening. And sometimes it is prepared according to this recipe: they take Ritle galls, grease them with olive oil and fry them until they crack. Then they take burnt copper, alum, tragacanth - fifteen dirhams each and salt - seven dirhams, grind it all well, mix it in hot water and paint it with it, leaving the paint for three hours, sometimes henna and vasma are mixed into this composition. The most famous, after this, is paint prepared from an equal amount of nura, lead oxide and clay, edible or Khuzistan, or from Kimolos clay, or from whatever kind of clay you want for the head. The composition is mixed with water, as paint is usually mixed, and used by covering it with beet leaves. The main thing here is to grind the lead oxide well. If the liquid is henna or wasma juice, distilled by boiling or heating in the sun, then this is better, but it is necessary to let the composition stand for about six hours and keep it moist. Or they take equal parts of henna, vasma, powdered svnitsa oxide, nura, toasted galls, burnt copper, alum, clay, tragacanth and cloves and paint with it.

And from the still blackening colors mentioned in the books, I will come from them those that are closer to being accepted by the heart and arousing trust.

Description of good paint. They take one part of henna, two parts of vasma, equal amounts of burnt copper, alum, Andaran salt, toasted galls and iron oxide, grind it with vinegar and leave it to stand until the composition ferments, and then consume it.

It is mentioned, by the way, that the medicine according to this recipe is taken from iron oxide, which is first thoroughly ground in wine vinegar, covering it four fingers deep, boiled to half and left in vinegar for two weeks, until the entire composition is covered with rust. Then they take black myrobalas - as much as there was scale, pour this vinegar over them, after grinding them, and boil until it becomes like galiya, and if you wish, you can perfume it. If this paint gives color, despite its oiliness, it is only due to the power of rusting iron.

They also say that silver scale, thoroughly boiled in vinegar, is considered one of the strongest blackening paints, but, in my opinion, it is better that instead of vinegar there be the acid of orange or citron, and instead of boiling, iron should be left in it for a while. They also say that if you put a layer of anemone and a layer of alum, as well as galban and sukkah in a bottle - two ukiyyah of both together on the ritl of anemone - and bury it in manure, the composition will dissolve and turn into paint.

They also say that if you bury barley sprouts in manure, placed in a bottle before they start to spike, with half the amount of alum as barley, then all this will turn into black water and black mud.

They say that if you cut a fresh pumpkin on its stem, take out its contents and put salt and a little iron oxide in it, and then put back the cut peel and coat the pumpkin with clay, then everything that is in it will dissolve and turn into black water, similar to paint or ink.

They say that if you grind the leaves of capers and boil them in milk, especially in a woman's milk, until one third is gone, and then leave it to stand overnight, you will get a good dye, but in my opinion it will rather be a hair preservative. Galen also testifies the existence of such paint.

They also take flowers that hang on the walnut tree like clusters, grind them with olive oil and smear them with a little fresh bitumen; one of the doctors says that if you mix a little goat feces with it, it will be good.

They say that laurel root bark also works if you grind it with olive oil and spread it on it, it blackens your hair, but, in my opinion, if this is also a dye, then olive oil weakens this effect, and if instead of oil there was water, it would be maybe it would be better. I will say the same thing about Paul's statement that the leaves of anemone, if you rub them in oil until they become like galliya, turn into paint. If this makes any sense at all, then something is needed, conducting substances deeper, for example, alum. The same is true of doctors regarding churning olive oil with nut shells, boiling it in the juice of the shells and adding a small amount of alum - all this weakens the effect of the dye.

The same applies to talk about boiling oil in anemone juice until all the juice is gone. They also say that you should take sesame oil, throw in emblic myrobalans in the amount of one-third of the oil, cook carefully for a while, then strain the composition, take a quarter of a rittle of thin lead plates for each ritl of the composition and boil carefully, stirring all the time so that it does not melt lead and the oil does not catch fire, then the composition is allowed to stand for three days and then consumed. I will say that it does offer some hope, especially if the cast includes an alum.

They also say that if you put bana oil inside a coconut, then thoroughly coat it with clay and carefully place it in a bread oven, paint will also come out of the oil, but it is better to consider this composition as one of the means that prevents graying.

They also say that if you peel the seeds from raisins, grind them finely like powder, add sesame oil and bury them in manure for a month, you will get an excellent dye for faded hair. Everyone seems to agree that stork eggs make excellent paint, just like bustard eggs. In our time, during the life of the ruler Shamsaddaula - may Allah sanctify his soul - the feces of one of his leopards fell on part of the beard of the leopard keeper, who was lying next to him, and stained it black.