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Compositions for treating hair, which are available in the market, are either for imparting color or for cleaning and add sine to the hair. Prolonged or excessive use of such cosmetic products even found to cause removal or natural oil from hair resulting in undesirable coarseness and loss of gloss or shine. The present invention attempts to obviate the drawbacks mentioned above and provides a herbal composition for treating and colouring hair comprising – Ingredients Amount in wt % Emblica officinalis - 40 Howsonia alba (Mehendi ) - 20 Spindus trifolatis (Ritta) - 20 Accacia concina (Shikakai) - 10 Terminalia chebula - 5 Terminalia chebula ( Baheda) - 5 Sepia Officinalis (Samudra fen) - q.v This invention also provides a process for preparing the above herbal composition in a free flowing dispensable form. (FIG. nil)