Water Henna
Micro-encapsulated Natural Hair Colour
One minute to mix, thirty minutes to dye. Micro‑encapsulation removes everything that made natural henna a chore.
What was wrong with natural henna was never the colour. It was the time.
Natural henna is one of the few ways to colour hair without synthetic dye — but powder henna takes half an hour just to mix and two to twenty-four hours to develop. Water Henna uses Ons micro-encapsulation to activate the natural lawsone pigment fast, cutting preparation time by 97% and dyeing time by 75% against conventional powder henna. The colourant is 100% naturally derived, yet thirty minutes now gives the same clean, saturated result that used to take two hours. Cleared the Korean MFDS functional-cosmetic review for greying hair in 2023.
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Mix for a minute
Pour the Henna Oil and Henna Essence together and whisk for one minute. The thirty-minute mixing ritual is gone.
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The pigment wakes up
The micro-encapsulated natural lawsone pigment activates immediately.
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Apply
Spread it evenly. Being liquid, it does not leave the patchiness powder henna is known for.
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Bond, 30 minutes
Lawsone bonds with the keratin in the hair and the colour develops — 30 minutes instead of 2 to 24 hours.
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Rinse
Rinse it out. Greys come up orange.
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Indigo (optional)
Another 30 minutes with indigo turns it brown, and it deepens over the following 24 hours.
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Preparation time down 97%
Conventional powder henna 30 minutes → 1 minute: pour the oil and essence together, whisk, done
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Dyeing time down 75%
Conventional powder henna 2–24 hours → 30 minutes
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Zero synthetic colourant
By the MFDS-reviewed full ingredient list: no PPD, no m-aminophenol, no ammonia added
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Even, clean colour
Encapsulation eliminates the patchiness of powder henna
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EWG-safe ingredients
Formulated only from ingredients rated Safe by the EWG
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Primary irritation index: 0.00
Both henna and indigo recorded a mean irritation index of 0.00 in a 24-hour human patch test of 33 volunteers — KSRC clinical study (2024)
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MFDS functional cosmetic review
Functional cosmetic for greying hair, No. 20230026680
Henna set — greys turn orange
Indigo set — greys turn blue
Brown set — greys turn brown in one step
Developed by the chemical manufacturer that owns the encapsulation technology
Korean MFDS functional cosmetic review completed (No. 20230026680)
Registered patent on the henna and indigo natural hair dye kit (No. 10-2836178, granted 2025)
Only ingredients rated Safe by the EWG
Sold direct through our own store, Naver and Amazon
Colour by product
| Method | Result |
|---|---|
| Henna 30 min | White hair → orange |
| Indigo 30 min | White hair → blue |
| Henna 30 min + Indigo 30 min | White hair → orange → deep brown (darkens over 24 h) |
| Brown 60 min | White hair → brown in one step |
- How is it different from powder henna?
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The pigment is the same natural lawsone. What differs is time — thirty minutes of mixing becomes one, and two to twenty-four hours of development becomes thirty minutes. Being liquid, it also avoids the patchy result powder henna often gives.
- How do we get brown?
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Henna for thirty minutes turns greys orange; another thirty minutes of indigo takes it to brown, which deepens over the next 24 hours. If you would rather do it in one step, the Brown set takes sixty minutes.
- Does it contain PPD?
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No. There is no PPD, no m-aminophenol and no ammonia, and zero synthetic colourant. Only ingredients rated Safe by the EWG are used, and it holds Korean MFDS functional cosmetic approval for greying hair (No. 20230026680), granted in 2023.
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