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Brenda
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Brenda Groth wrote:
..i love deep dark browns..
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rose macaskie wrote:
It was a very crazy thing to do at fifty five but somehow i just ended up doing it.
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Suki Marmelaide wrote:
Regarding walnut dyes and most especially, skin.
This is for Rose and her Gypsy heart from fourteen years ago.
Messing around with a girlfriend about thirty-eight years ago, we had also read about the skin staining of walnuts and purchased a natural extract made from the green unripe husks (that form •around• the eventual hard shell), funnily enough, this extract smelled a lot like self-tanner (usually comprised of dehydroacetic? something, I think the acronym is DHA, can't recall the chemical makeup plus erythulose, which is derived from a sugar alcohol called erythritol and which lays down a nice dark base that unfortunately does not provide any Sun Protection Factor).
For some unknown reason, the juglone in the walnut extract and one of the above ingredients or the combo thereof, smells close to identical and works not just as a skin dye, but as a 'tanning accelerant', so the more sunlight one gets, the darker one gets (and the fragrance really doesn't dissipate, no matter how many showers you take, it's very similar, the scent is, to blackstrap molasses).
This skin-stain, plus the subsequent tanning acceleration, at least on our exposed skin, lasted quite some time, especially the tanning effect.
We did not get any in our hair, however, I had close to blonde brows when I started out, which were darker by a great factor when I was done. Much darker than my very dark skin, if I had intended on dyeing them, I imagine they would have looked more natural.
I think there are some pH tricks one can achieve with the raw material of the unripe green husks of the walnut. (These are kind of soft, but not squishy, around the size of a small plum, a beautiful almost olive or Army green colour and they pretty easily can be peeled off of the rest of the walnut, however, when you are making an extract, you don't have to separate the nut and shell from the outer rind, you just put the whole shebang, after bruising it well, into your maceration vessel (which definitely should be either dark glass or clear glass but covered with a sleeve (I usually use a nylon stocking or dismembered tights for better opacity; if you leave the foot on the sock, then you will have your first straining sock ready to go after macerating it for around 6 weeks, agitating vigorously every other day, then when the time comes, you can use your half-tights-sock to line a canning funnel and pour your marc and solvents through, then secondarily, you would filter your solution through unbleached coffee filter paper, for any detritus or precipitate.))
The solvent mixture recommendation from Stephen Buhner only lists the dried hull at 1:5, 50% alcohol, so I am going to assume that fresh hulls would be extracted at a ratio of 1 part crude drug to 2 parts solvent, said solvent being at least 50% food-grade ethanol, the remaining fifty percent being preferably boiled deionized water or at the least, distilled water, no minerals!
The recommended dose for the dried 1:5 extract is '20-50 drops, up to 4x/daily' or 1-2.5 milliliters, up to 4x per day, with or without food, probably sublingually.
Keep in mind that Black Walnut, in all its bits, is a powerful anti-fungal, and I think it is anti-candida and possibly anti-candidiasis, and if I remember correctly, a vermifuge, which as I am sure you know, means either parasite-killer or parasite-expeller ( and which might work as both).
I can't recall any other uses at the moment but I will leave you with one last little bit of trivia regarding the black walnut tree and it is Allelopathic in nature.
Which means how the tree itself interacts with the rest of your garden/forest/orchard/compost pile..
Juglans Major DOES NOT play well with others!
This means don't plant •anything• you want to live, including other walnut trees! Anywhere under it's canopy or within rooting distance!
The black walnut tree spreads an anti-rooting hormone far and wide, along with a host of other chemicals that work on all stages of plants, whether they are germinating or fully established. This tree will kill everything within spitting distance and will even poison your compost for a solid six months if you spread it on your garden. If I remember correctly, I don't think you even want to burn it and spread the ashes because that is also toxic, I think, but check on that last one.
I think that's everything I know on the subject of Walnuts.
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