Has anyone else experienced this with Catherine's Indigo?

The last couple batches of indigo I have purchased from Catherine have made me itch like Crraaazzzy. This last purchase worse than the last. As far as I know this is the same 'ole kind of indigo I have purchased from her from the beginning of [myLHC] time.

I do a two-step henna:indigo. I'm only mixing the indigo with warm tap water. I don't think it's the water as I have colored in various states of the union - well water and city water.

As an added dope benefit I don't seem to be getting great dye release either ... :rolleyes:

But seriously. I sit counting the minutes I have to have this blue mud of agony on my head all the while relentlessly digging at my scalp with a wooden hair stick....

Henna Sooq started this thread a while ago.
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=1998

Yeah ... just saw it one click too late. :o

I have been using this same indigo every few weeks for ~3 years with no problem though ... until just these last two purchases.

Sounded hinky and noteworthy.

Actually, I've always had itching from Indigo Catia. I haven't answered Hennasooq's thread yet, but it's one of the reasons I'm beginning to question henindigo for me.

My Indigo batch is from Catherine, and some of it is as much as 6 months to one year old (if that helps at all?).

Thankyou for your response Celebrian.

I'm trying to remember ...

I think the first purchase that started the insane itchies was purchased 8 months ago. I usually make a big enough purchase to get me through quite a few months of root touch-ups.

I've never had problems with indigo (so I didn't post in HennaSooq's thread), but I did develop an allergy to henna at some point. It wasn't a particular batch. It was just that I had become allergic ;-).

I can't deal with henna on my scalp in any quantity anymore. Even a ten-minute gloss will drive me completely crazy want-to-scratch-my-scalp-till-it-bleeds itchy.

Also, I was stubborn about continuing henna anyway (thinking that it was just not possible to be allergic to henna etc) and in hindsight I have to say that that was a bad idea, because it made me sensitive to other things as well. All of a sudden my scalp started reacting to shampoos, which it had never done before. It has calmed down a bit now, but it was really going crazy over everything for awhile there. Better to give it a rest when it acts up, I think.

Iris

That is what I have been wondering about Iris. A developed allergy.

I'm pretty sure I plan in living in denial about it for as long as I can though.

It's my way lol.

Yaaaaay Catia!!So happy to see you post:cheese:
Catia hope that you didn't get allergy for indigo but maybe you couldn't rinse all the mud away from your superlong hair. Sould that be the problem? I suggest cleaning your scalp with a shampoo.
And how is the color turning out,I'm curious. Did the black ever fade with the two step process??
ETA:But ofcourse my theory would be nonsense for the itchiness you get durng the waiting time:PDid it ever cause this when you used henna with it?
And somebody can get allergic to a product with multiple aspect.You don't need to itch the first time you used it. Forexample a surgent might get allergic to latex gloves after years of using them all of a sudden.

Thankyou Zift:D

I don't remember having problems with henndigo, but then the indigo didn't really bother me until recently...

The indigo hasn't faded one bit. I actually tried to strip it a couple months ago so I could go back to henndigo one-step without the black demarcation line. Nope. Didn't budge. My ends aren't true black but nearer my scalp where the root touch-ups overlap a bit and get multiple applications - that is black as can be.