Products in Pigments & Colorants: Hair Color

BASF Vibracolor Flame Orange is a powder dye used in rinse-off hair care applications such as shampoos and conditioners. It imparts a vibrant orange color and adds a lively, attractive look to the hair. The product complies with REACH regulations and is a Basic Dye type, with the INCI name Basic Orange 31. It is part of the Pigments & Colorants technologies and falls under the Product Families of Dyes and Basic Dyes. Additionally, it is labeled as "Clean at Sephora," meeting the retailer's standards for clean beauty products.

BASF Vibracolor Citrus Yellow is a cosmetic ingredient used for hair color applications, such as shampoos, rinses, and hair conditioners, where it imparts a vibrant yellow color. It belongs to the Basic Dyes category and its INCI name is Basic Yellow 87. It is a powder with dye properties and is compliant with REACH regulations in Europe. It is also labeled as Clean at Sephora.

BASF Vibracolor Moonlight Blue is a brilliant blue and fashionable, yet natural shade—safe and effective hair dyes that are in high demand. With regulatory discussions about many blue colorants ongoing, our Vibracolor® Moonlight Blue cationic hair dye opens up special market opportunities. It is ideal for creating striking blue shades and dark natural colors, and is suitable for both semi-permanent hair dyes and tinting conditioners and shampoos. Highly soluble in aqueous systems, stable under acidic conditions, and offering good wash-fastness and light-fastness, Vibracolor® Moonlight Blue is both effective and easy to formulate. It is the perfect choice for creating modern, radiant, and fashionable hair coloring concepts.

BASF Vibracolor Ruby Red is a cationic direct dye with a low molecular weight. It is available in powder form with traces of lumps. It is a hair dye that is suitable for hair colors, tinting shampoos, conditioners, and other tinting products.

AllanChem FD&C Blue #1 is a high-quality, decorative acid dye that is used as a color additive in color cosmetics and hair care applications. This product can also be used as a food coloring agent when amounts consistent with GMP (21CFR74.101) are used.

SAS Lafayette Guava Colored Oil is an innovative natural liposoluble pigment that represents an alternative to conventional dye for your coloring products.

Couleurs de Plantes Tara is a coloring substance that was already known by pre-Columbian civilizations. The first Spanish missionaries quote the black ink named nacazcolotl. Tara pods have been used extensively for leather tanning and black ink manufacturing. It was a species widely exported to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. The pods are very rich in hydrolysable tannins (gallic and ellagic). The pods are cropped in Central America, dried and crushed.

Couleurs de Plantes Old Fustic was introduced to Europe by the Spanish colonizers. Its name Old Tustet or Palo fustete was given by comparison with the European fustic. If the European fustic has been known since the 5th century BC, old fustic appeared in Europe around 1510. This wood contains a lot of morin, yellow dye molecule discovered by Chevreul. This wood has assumed considerable importance in Europe for dyeing wool yellow and orange. Around years 1830, nearly 12 000 tons arrived each year in the English ports. In 1916, the United States still imported 16 000 tons. This wood is still used for leather dyeing.

Couleurs de Plantes Henna Extract use is very old, Egyptian women mummies found in tombs had dyed henna nails. Henna is quoted in the Bible as kofer for its fragrance properties. Andalusian poetry of the eleventh century sings henna as a hair and body dye, and as a textile dye. The dye was identified in textiles from the 15th to the 19th century in different parts of the world Today henna is widely used as ceremonial body painting (hair, nails, skin tattoo).

Couleurs de Plantes Crushed Leaves Of Tropical Indigo (Black Henna) name comes from the Latin indicum, the Indian “who produce Indigo.” The Sanskrit nila gave in Arabic an-nil and Spanish anil. It was also at the origin of the name aniline product made by processing of Indigo. Other species of Indigo are used such as Indigofera suffruticosa Mill., I arrecta Hochst ex. A Rich or I. coerulea Roxb. Botanical identification is sometimes controversial and has evolved over time. Indigo suffruticosa was the main source of Indigo for precolombian civilizations of Mexico and Perou. It was introduced in South-East Asia. Indigofera tinctoria is probably native from India and it is still cultivated although the surfaces have been considerably reduced since the 19th century and the advent of synthetic indigo (1882).

Jos. H. Lowenstein Lowacryls is a cationic dyes for semi-permanent and temporary color systems.

Jos. H. Lowenstein Lowadenes is a disperse dyes for semi-permanent and temporary color systems.