Description

Cosmetic Grade Pigment Powder

Red#40 FD&C Dye

Common Name:Allura Red
Class : Cosmetic Pigment
Type: FD&C Dye
Hue: Red ( Dark )
C.I # 16035
Application: Safe for Lips, Face, External

Also Known As: FD&C Red #40 | Allura Red | AU 129 | EC E129

Different types of pigments are approved for different applications in the EU and US, we recommend making your own informed decision in regards to how you use pigments in your applications.

Perfect for: Cosmetics, Soap Making ( hot process & cold process & melt/pour ), Epoxy resin, Nail Art, Nail Polish colourant, DIY Paint, Bath Bombs, Bath Salts, Candles & more.

FD&C, Inorganic, Dye Powdered Pigments

..produce a pure, vibrant colour payoff, making them ideal for use in coloured cosmetics manufacturing. Flirtsy Cosmetics range of powdered pigments are the highest quality powdered pigments, certified for use in cosmetics and all other beauty products. Although the usage of these powdered pigments is certainly not limited to colouring cosmetics. As these are high quality powdered pigments that are skin safe, that means they can be used for any other application too.

Although the use case for these pigments is almost endless, here are some of the most common applications for these high quality pure powdered pigments. Making Cosmetics, Soap Making ( hot process & cold process & melt/pour ), Epoxy resin, Nail Art, Nail Polish colourant, DIY Paint, Bath Bombs, Bath Salts, Candles & many more. 

Looking for more information on the different types of powdered pigments available ( Iron Oxides / Micas / Lake Dyes / FD&C Dyes ) and how they are most commonly used? View our blog post here.

Make Your Own Makeup At Home

Flirtsy Cosmetics pigment powders are graded to the highest standard, making them safe for use in cosmetics and all other skin applications. Whether you’re a budding home cosmetic chemist who has prior experience in making cosmetics, or you’re an apprentice who’s purchased one of our DIY Makeup Kits and looking to restock your supplies. If you’ve not heard of making your own cosmetics at home, you can find more information on how to make your own makeup and our beginner friendly DIY kits here. 

Artisan Soap Making Pigment

Powdered pigments, especially FD&C dyes are often used in artisan soap making as they add a whole extra dimension to the art of the soap making process as they produce such intense, vivid colours. FD&C Dye pigments are known for being stable and safe to use in all forms of soap making, whether you use the cold process, hot process or a melt and pour base.  

Bath Bombs & Bath Salt Colourants

The chemistry of making bath bombs and mixing your own bath salts at home is a straightforward process, but really where’s the fun unless they are pigmented with bright colours and gorgeous shimmery mica powders. Making bath bombs and bath salts at home is great little hobby for home use and for gifting to your friends and family and can easily be taken to another level artistically by using colourants, glitters and shimmers. FD&C dyes will add a rich, bright hue to your bath bombs and bath salts and should be used with caution – as a little certainly goes a long way with these purely pigmented powdered. Looking to add some shimmer? Checkout our range of glitters and shimmery mica powders here.  

DIY Nail Polish & Nail Art

Making your own nail polish at home is as easy at buying some bottles and a clear nail varnish base online – but how do you make that base gorgeously pigmented with all of your favourite colours? Powdered pigments! With the right utensils to correctly disperse the pigment in the clear nail vanish solution, you could create your very own treasure trove of unique nail polish colours. With the variety of powdered pigments available from Flirtsy Cosmetics, there is no end to the amount of coloured nailpolishes you could make. 

Make Your Own Paint At Home

The Flirtsy cosmetics range of pigment powders are not unlike the pigments used in every brand of paints, across every medium and every decade. With the exception that our range of pigments are of much higher quality than standard paint quality pigments. So why not try your hand at making your very own paints with our range of colourants? We’ve found there is a huge range of information online these days on how to make your own paints at home, with very few ingredients. We’ve found the most common of these online lessons to be based on DIY watercolour paint making as it seems to be the most straight forward process. With our range of high grade pigment powders, you could even start your own line of artist grade paints ! 

And so much more !

This is a very limited list of how you could utilise powdered pigments across your hobbies, whether they are current hobbies of yours, or hobbies you hope to start in the future! Keep in mind that use of powdered pigments is almost endless and are the gift that keeps on giving, no matter what application they’re used in. 

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