Reply With Quotecassia obovata and cinnamon Cinnamomum verum is not the same plant, and they have very different uses.
Henna Sooq mentioned that she used cassia obovata and honey to lighten some of the henna build up in the honey thread. Cinnamon is not the same plant. They are in the same family of plant, I would assume they would have some similar properties.Originally Posted by SHELIAANN1969
Big question, is that a permanet lighting process or does it get darker again once you stop using the cinnamon?
Ekaini - Thanks for the link.
I wonder if the other high values would give the same effect? Nutmeg anybody?
Last edited by MeMyselfandI; March 31st, 2008 at 02:51 PM.
cassia obovata and cinnamon Cinnamomum verum is not the same plant, and they have very different uses.
Holy Moly
I believe that is a different cassia that Henna Souq used - cassia senna.
Isilme - we posted at the same time, lol
The “other“cassia - the one sold as cinnamon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassia
Last edited by ktani; March 31st, 2008 at 02:39 PM. Reason: added text
Maybe that's why the OP never noticed any lightening with the cinnamon oil in the mister, only when she switched to ground cinnamon -- because they were actually from two different plants?
Either way, this is really interesting! I'm going to keep an eye on this thread.
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Very true,
I did not add that in my post, I will.
Last edited by MeMyselfandI; March 31st, 2008 at 02:50 PM.
Cassia cinnamon (our favorite kind) is not cinnamon at all, but an entirely different plant.
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Interesting question. I would have to believe that this is permanent, my ends have gotten fairly translucent (still brownish colored, but more see-through), and they were not that way before.
Aha, so cinnamon is in the Henna/Cassia family, eh? So I would imagine it has color depositing qualities as well as bleaching tendencies? I've got to read more on this!
You are right, I didn't notice any lightening with the oil, but I swore that I bought the cinnamon bark oil, not the cinnamon leaf oil. I am at work right now, so I can't check the label. It may have been the crucial error in all of this. But either way, it sure smelled strongly of cinnamon.
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That wasn't quite what I meant, although that could also explain it. What I meant was, if the cinnamon oil in your mister was from the plant Cinnamomum verum (a.k.a. "true cinnamon") and the ground cinnamon was actually Cinnamomum aromaticum, or C. cassia (a.k.a. the stuff that's commonly sold in the U.S. and Canada but isn't actually true cinnamon, according to Wikipedia), then those are two different plants. Hence that could explain why one lightened and the other didn't.
No idea if cinnamon leaf oil and cinnamon bark oil come from the same plant or not. You'd have to check that with your supplier.
Hijack: Cinnamon in a cup of hot mead is marvellous for colds, especially with lemon, honey, ginger, nutmeg and a pinch of chili powder.
Last edited by Wavelength; March 31st, 2008 at 03:03 PM.
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Holy Moly
Cassia cinnamon is a related species but not true cinnamon - yes, it is a different plant.
I believe that the colour change will be permanent - peroxide lightening does not tend to redarken.
From the title, both plants may be closely related enough to have the same or similar peroxide values. There is more information on cassia and cinnamon - scroll down.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=KZa8...Ot2tkeW4&hl=en
The oil in the mister - in such a small quantity, may not have been strong enough.
Last edited by ktani; March 31st, 2008 at 03:12 PM.
Aine,
I would be cautious if your hair got that light.
Looking at the POV table of ground cinnamon, I would assume misting with this would be simillar to spraying a very weak solution of peroxide to the hair.
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