HENNA HAIR DYES ARE SAFE – BUT MAYBE NOT HENNA BODY PAINT: EU
October 1st, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) scientific committee on consumer safety has concluded that henna is safe as a hair dye, probably thwarting a request from French health authorities that henna be tested on animals. This is now generally illegal in the EU under the revised cosmetics directive, and such tests must be approved by the European Commission, when alternative methods are not available and there is a real health risk. France said laboratory tests indicated that henna (active ingredient Lawsone, or 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone) was potentially genotoxic and ...
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