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Here are some of my favorite options, and the color they impart:

  • Activated Charcoal - usually made from bamboo, gives a gray to deep black color depending on use. Great for dramatic contrast, or subtle lines
  • Alfalfa - medium green
  • Alkanet - steep in oil first - deep purple to muted blue
  • Annatto Seed - steep in oil first - it makes a yellow/orange - (it's the color of "macaroni and cheese")
  • Beet Root - muted pinkish beige to muted pinkish dull brown
  • Bentonite clay - off white to a light ivory-green
  • Black walnut hull - speckled purple-brown
  • Ground Calendula Petals - yellow - speckled throughout
  • Carrots, shredded or ground - yellow to orange
  • Carrot juice (black) - light pinkish brown
  • Ground Chamomile - yellow-beige
  • Chamomile (German) essential oil - light pastel green
  • Chlorophyll - medium greens
  • Cinnamon - tan to brown - can be an irritant
  • Cloves, ground - brown
  • Cochineal powder - light to deep red depending on amount used
  • Cocoa powder- brown
  • Coffee/coffee grounds - brown to black
  • Comfrey Root - light milky brown
  • Cornmeal, blue - purplish-blue-brown
  • Cucumber - bright to pale green - peel can be used in a more speckled way
  • Curry powder - yellow
  • Elderberries - steep in lye solution - light brown
  • Green tea powder - brownish-greenish - speckled
  • Henna, ground - olive to deep drab green - brown
  • Indigo root - deep blues - caution, can stain
  • Jojoba beads - come in many colors, and add exfoliation too
  • Kaolin Clay - white to off-white
  • Kelp/seaweed - green
  • Madder root - rosy red - purple
  • Milk (goats or cow's) - tan to brown, depending upon sugar & fat content
  • Morrocan Red Clay - Brick Red
  • Olive leaf powder - warm ochre/brown color
  • Orange juice - used in place of water for lye solution - nice pastel orange/beige
  • Paprika - light orange peach to orange-brown - can be an irritant
  • Poppy Seeds - Blue-grey to light black specks
  • Pumice, ground - grey
  • Pumpkin, pureed - lovely deep orange
  • Rattanjot - light lavender-brown to deep purplish chocolate brown
  • Rhassoul clay - a light speckled gray-brown
  • Rose Pink Clay - Brick red
  • Rosehip seeds, ground - light tan to deep brown
  • Safflower Petals- yellow to deep orange
  • Saffron - yellows
  • Sage - green
  • Sandalwood powder (red) - deep purplish brown - nice speckles
  • Spearmint - greenish brown
  • Spinach - light muted green
  • Spirulina/Blue-Green Algae - light pastel green to blue-green
  • Titanium Dioxide - bright white
  • Tree lichen - nice light pinkish beige - varies on type of lichen
  • Turmeric - golden brown to amber
  • Wheatgrass juice - lovely deep green
  • Woad powder - bluish green
Ann Karlsson, Alla rättigheter reserverade 2019
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