Products in Pigments & Colorants: Hair Color

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.

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 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 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.

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 Cutch Tree is exported from the middle ages from India to China and Japan, then to Europe under the name of “terra japonica.” The Cutch tree was used for dyeing textile fibbers exposed to weather: fishing nets, boat sails, tarpaulins, tents, and also for leather. Cutch tree contains 55 to 60% of cutch tannins (hence its name), catechins, epicatechins, gallocatechins, epigallocatechins, etc. it also contains flavonols principally quercetin.

Couleurs de Plantes Henna Leaves Crushed 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 Brazil Wood, Peachwood is a bushy and thorny shrub, common in the dry areas of Central America up to 1500 meters above sea level. The Central American redwoods were exported in the Middle Ages for use in dyeing, especially in Europe. Haematoxylum brasiletto is one of the richest in coloring molecules. The deep red color on wool and silk and good wash fastness makes it a preferred color in Europe at this time, but given its poor light fastness, this dye will be mainly used to shade red dyes of Madder (manual of recepies of Venetian dyers, 15 century). The Brasiletto is the 3rd most important source of red wood dye. Its export began in 1848 and its trade continued until the beginning of the 20th century. Wood decoctions are traditionally used to treat heart and digestive disorders.

COSMECOL Yellow N4 is a nitro dye, which is used for personal care.

Couleurs de Plantes Genipa was used for body painting. The fruit was also part of the traditional food as syrup or beverage. The dye extract is now used in cosmetic products and natural tattoos or food (jellies, jams – America). The main dye is Genipa genipin (iridoid) from the hydrolysis of geniposide. Genipa also contains tannins.

GINONIC B-30 is used in hair color and hair conditioner.