How to Remove a Henna Stain: Free Tips for Removing Henna Tattoos & Body Art

Video Transcript

"Sometimes someone will want to remove their henna stain before it’s completely demised. When that occurs you have a few different options that you can attempt. I say attempt because there is no proven way to remove a henna stain. Eventually it will fade and it will fade. However, if you want to cause that process to fade a little bit more quickly one of the processes you can try is hydrogen peroxide. I don’t know if you can see this on my hand, but I have a stain on it that’s about two weeks old. And you can still see just a little light orange. Some people would be more than willing to just stain over that. I personally prefer for my stain to be completely gone before I attempt to do another design. To use the hydrogen peroxide you just take some of it, put it on a cotton ball like you would if you had a wound, and just rub it on your hand. You may not see much of a difference initially but after awhile you keep rubbing and rubbing eventually sometimes you may see it begin to disappear. Another thing that we’ve found works is to get in a pool. Chlorinated water tends to make henna fade a lot quicker, so while getting in the pool might not make your stains disappear that day it will make its disappearance go a lot quicker. Another thing that a lot of people use, although I personally have not tried this, but it’s not harmful and it may help someone, is to soak your hands in warm water and then apply some olive oil, rub it onto your skin. You may even want to try a little bit of salt on top of your olive oil. And just rub rub rub. It’s the exfoliating properties that is helping to remove your henna stain. Henna only stains the top layers of your skin. It doesn’t stain all the way down into the lower layer of your skin like a tattoo would. Therefore as you exfoliate that is what causes your henna tattoo to leave. If you exfoliate more it’ll leave quicker. I have had a henna tattoo done and then gone to take an extended bath, for even a couple of hours, and noticed that it became noticeably lighter just in that short period of time. So try a few different ideas and see what works for you. "