Hi ya'll! I'm Maddy.
Pretty recently, I had a friend come to me asking me to make him all natural body paints.
He specifically wanted blue, green, yellow, red, and black. I decided to make him the primary colors and black, and leave it at that!
I was very enthusiastic at first, and then... Oh gosh!
Well, it turns out that it's nearly impossible to turn a liquid dye into a body paint, since it majorly dilutes the color and doesn't mix well with the oils.
You can, however, create a pigment by dehydrating organic material (Like berries or petals) and finely grinding them (Don't I wish I had a mortar and pestle now!???)
It also turns out that although I can make a BEAUTIFUL blue liquid dye with red cabbage, that making blue with almost anything else is nearly impossible. That darn color! (Even now I can still smell the horrible stench of dehydrated cabbage leaves)
Blue is the rarest color. Almost any other color can be easily made from organic materials, such as berries or grass or dirt. But blue... Well, it's tricky.
The ancient Egyptians used a complicated chemical process involving copper and heating to create their blue.
In the Renaissance period, they used ground lapis lazuli, a precious gem, to create blue!
Is purple really the color of royalty, or is it blue?
Really the only things that make blue are Iris leaves (which are not found in my locality and are decently expensive flowers) or woad (which is poisonous!)
Has anyone here tried to make body paints? I really want to create a high quality paint with beeswax (to make it thick and waterproof). If I can do this, I feel it will be absolutely amazing, because none of the recipes I found came at all from natural ingredients, or else were not high quality!
Pretty recently, I had a friend come to me asking me to make him all natural body paints.
He specifically wanted blue, green, yellow, red, and black. I decided to make him the primary colors and black, and leave it at that!
I was very enthusiastic at first, and then... Oh gosh!
Well, it turns out that it's nearly impossible to turn a liquid dye into a body paint, since it majorly dilutes the color and doesn't mix well with the oils.
You can, however, create a pigment by dehydrating organic material (Like berries or petals) and finely grinding them (Don't I wish I had a mortar and pestle now!???)
It also turns out that although I can make a BEAUTIFUL blue liquid dye with red cabbage, that making blue with almost anything else is nearly impossible. That darn color! (Even now I can still smell the horrible stench of dehydrated cabbage leaves)
Blue is the rarest color. Almost any other color can be easily made from organic materials, such as berries or grass or dirt. But blue... Well, it's tricky.
The ancient Egyptians used a complicated chemical process involving copper and heating to create their blue.
In the Renaissance period, they used ground lapis lazuli, a precious gem, to create blue!
Is purple really the color of royalty, or is it blue?
Really the only things that make blue are Iris leaves (which are not found in my locality and are decently expensive flowers) or woad (which is poisonous!)
Has anyone here tried to make body paints? I really want to create a high quality paint with beeswax (to make it thick and waterproof). If I can do this, I feel it will be absolutely amazing, because none of the recipes I found came at all from natural ingredients, or else were not high quality!
