My henna for Eid

My henna for Eid, originally uploaded by Henna Sooq.

This past Eid, I got a chance to treat myself to some henna. Finally!

Enjoy!

October New Products And Sales

The summer henna season was absolutely amazing here in the Toronto area. It was the busiest we have ever been!

This enabled us to open a second location in Mississauga. It is a very convenient location for order pick ups, and to get your henna and glitter body art fix! We hope to see you come out and visit us at 3092 Mavid Rd (near Dundas) in Mississauga. Store #87

Just for reading, and keeping up with our blog, we are offering a HUGE Blogger appreciation discount from us here at the Henna Sooq. Please use (and apply) this code during checkout: Blog15 .Please type in code exactly as seen (no caps). Only valid online. This will save you 15% off your total order. Valid only until October 11th.(If you have any trouble using the coupon, please email us immediately at hennasooq@gmail.com or call us at 905-230-4651)

New Products!

• Samples!! Such a large selection of free samples (1 cent has been added to each sample for shipping charges to be recognized and applied. Shipping costs are charged for samples) such as these new samples just added: cassia obovata, katam hair dye and aritha (soapnuts). Samples Canada and Samples USA
• Shampoo Bars. Please read more about our amazing shampoo bars here
  Argan Hair Oil and Cocoveda Hair Oil. These oils are completely amazing! Flying off the shelves like we’ve never seen.
• Glitter Gel. We have added four of the most popular colors of Glitter Gel. Get yours now! Glitter Gel Canada and Glitter Gel USA
• Moroccan Henna Powder. Now on sale! Only 3 kilograms left. Please go to our online shop to purchase yours. Henna Sooq Online Shop
• Self-Adhesive Stencils. We recently added new stencils, and reduced prices on variety packs of stencils. Please go to our shop online.

Giving Back To The Community: Jamila Henna

Jamila henna powder. Where we do we start regarding such a fabulous henna powder? Top of the line, high quality Jamila henna powder.





Abid and Co. is the company that owns, fields, and prepares Jamila henna powder. Just for us, they take their henna leaves and create the most finely sifted henna powder that turns creamy, and rich almost like melted chocolate. But please! Don’t eat it! They put it into perfectly labelled boxes, and inside foil wrappers. This fully protects the henna powder, and ensures freshness. Then they even stamp the premium crop blend with the Summer Crop and current year it is from.





Unfortunately there is controversy that surrounds, and sours this amazing henna powder. Just a little bit. Just enough to have blogs, posts, and emails all about it. Wondering what it really is? Or does it have a new name? Is it a new product? Is this really all a marketing ploy? How many different types of Jamila henna are there? We have to use our best judgement, and take the facts and make our own individual decisions on those questions.





It went so far that last year for the first time, Abid and Co. had to place red printing on the foil packages so we could see it was their Jamila henna powder. Now even further, they decided to add the crop year in the red printing. Last year there was no year marked on the foil packages. We feel that in order to stop these issues, and to clarify things, Abid and Co. had to take further steps and add the 2009 year onto the red printing we find.





This is what you will find on this year’s Summer Crop 2009 packages.

Jamila henna powder will come in two qualities. Jamila henna for hair and Jamila Summer Crop (year marked).

• Jamila henna for hair. This henna comes packaged inside a clear cellophane package, inside of a sealed, plain Jamila box that is marked inside with “Henna for Hair“. There will be no date marked on the box. The sift is a lesser quality, but still much better then store bought quality sifts. The henna leaves chosen for this quality are from leaves that are lower on the henna plant. The dye content is not as high as the premium quality Jamila henna. It is popular for hair usage.


• Jamila Summer Crop (2009, or year marked).This quality is used by professional henna artists, and is very popular amongst natural hair care lovers. This henna powder is the most finely sifted of the two varieties of Jamila henna powder available, and contains the best leaves of the henna plant that contain the most dye content. It currently comes in foil packaging that is marked in red ”premium quality JAMILA henna 2009” inside of a sealed, shiny Jamila box.

Abid and Co., have also helped out this year, to give back to the community. We have been giving out free samples to those suffering from Hand Foot Syndrome (due to certain cancer drugs) for quite some time now. Please read: Henna Bringing Relief to Cancer Patients.Jamila henna powder has been the best choice to help with Hand Foot Syndrome.

They have helped out the community by donating 10 kgs of Jamila henna powder, Summer Crop 2008. We want to thank them for their donation! We wish them success in their business. They have paid it forward, now we will do our part to pay it forward.