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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