Bath salts can be colored quite easily with a liquid dye or clays. In this experiment, I tried both methods to see what I liked best. I used FD&C dye for the purple, blue, orange, yellow, and green colors and pink clay for the pinkish/salmon color. I really liked the clay colored salts, but after a bit of research I found people complaining that the clay leaves a hard to clean circle on your tub. Have any of you experienced this in your trials?
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| All my color trials |
You can see that the FD&C dyes create a variation of colors in the salts based on the type of salt it is coloring. The sea salt crystals seem to be darker and the Epson salts color lighter. I really like the color gradation that ends up in the final product.
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| Mixing up purple bath salts |
The color differences are really evident in this picture. I think they end up looking like gemstones. So pretty!
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| Mixing up green bath salts |
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| An assortment of colors |
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| Orange, yellow, blue, and green |
That's really interesting...I had no idea you could color bath salts with clay! I love the different colors that result from the different salts too, very pretty!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have not tested the clay one yet in the bath tub to see if it leaves a ring. If it doesn't, I think that clays would be a wonderful natural way to color the salts. And clays come in so many colors that you can have a good range.
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