Gel dye Pomegranate 1 L

Pomegranate Gel Colorant: Achieving Rich, Luxurious Red Tones

Introducing our Pomegranate Gel Colorant—a highly concentrated, stable, and versatile pigment designed to infuse your products with a deep, rich red hue reminiscent of a perfectly ripe pomegranate. This gel colorant is a powerful tool for formulators and crafters seeking to achieve vibrant, consistent, and luxurious color results in their cosmetic and soap creations. Its gel form ensures easy mixing, smooth dispersion, and no risk of gritty residue.

Product Description and Key Features

The Pomegranate Gel Colorant is a high-quality, water-soluble pigment ideal for coloring aqueous bases. Its thick gel consistency means you only need a small amount to achieve high color intensity, making it extremely cost-effective. Unlike dry powders, this gel pigment disperses instantly without clumping, ensuring a uniform and streak-free color distribution in your final product. This colorant is an essential component for products requiring a deep red, burgundy, or wine-colored tint.

Key properties and benefits:

• High Concentration: Provides intense, saturated color with minimal dosage, ensuring economical use.

• Excellent Dispersion: The gel texture mixes quickly and evenly into water-based products, eliminating clumping and speeding up the manufacturing process.

• Color Stability: Resistant to migration and fading, ensuring the finished product maintains its rich pomegranate hue over time.

• Versatile Application: Highly effective in clear and opaque bases, including transparent soaps, gels, and lotions.

• Cosmetic Grade: Manufactured with safe, approved pigments suitable for use in bath and body products.

Applications and Usage Areas

The Pomegranate Gel Colorant is a premium additive, perfect for a wide variety of cosmetic and artisan products available for shipping worldwide.

Soap Making:

• Melt and Pour Soap: The gel colorant is ideal for transparent soap bases, creating vibrant, jewel-toned reds and burgundies that stand out. It mixes instantly and won't affect the clarity of the soap.

• Cold Process Soap: While the final shade may shift slightly due to the high pH environment, this colorant provides reliable and beautiful deep red tones in cold process soap, perfect for holiday or premium luxury lines.

Bath and Body Cosmetics:

• Shower Gels and Body Washes: Use to impart a rich, appealing color to liquid wash-off products.

• Bath Bombs and Fizzes: Creates a beautiful, vivid red shade in bath water without staining the skin or tub (when used at recommended dosages).

• Salt and Sugar Scrubs: Ideal for coloring the liquid phase of scrubs, giving them an attractive visual appeal that complements fruity or luxurious scents.

• Face and Body Masks: Can be added to gel-based or cream-based masks for a luxurious, appealing appearance.

Decorative Cosmetics:

• Lip Balms and Glosses: Can be used to tint non-aqueous lip products, although careful testing is required to ensure proper dispersion and final shade.

Dosage Recommendations:

• The dosage is highly dependent on the desired intensity.

• Start with 1–2 drops per 100 grams of base for a light, translucent tint.

• Increase to 5–10 drops per 100 grams for deep, saturated, opaque colors. Always test a small batch first.

Recipe: Luxurious Pomegranate & Cranberry Bath Bomb

Create a fizzing bath bomb with a beautiful, deep red color and a rich, fruity scent, perfect for relaxation.

Ingredients:

• 200 g Baking soda (Sodium Bicarbonate)

• 100 g Citric acid

• 10 g Carrier oil (e.g., Sweet Almond Oil)

• 5 g Polysorbate 80 (Emulsifier, helps color dispersion)

• 15-20 drops Pomegranate or Cranberry Fragrance Oil

• Pomegranate Gel Colorant (3–5 drops, depending on desired intensity)

• Witch Hazel or Isopropyl Alcohol (in a spray bottle, for binding)

Instructions for Preparation:

Mix Dry Ingredients: Sift and combine the baking soda and citric acid in a large, clean bowl. Mix thoroughly to ensure a uniform blend.

Combine Wet Ingredients: In a separate small container, mix the carrier oil, Polysorbate 80, and the Pomegranate or Cranberry Fragrance Oil.

Color the Oil Base: Add the Pomegranate Gel Colorant (start with 3 drops) to the wet ingredients and mix well. The color will be highly concentrated here.

Combine Phases: Slowly drizzle the colored wet ingredients into the dry ingredients while continuously mixing with your hands or a whisk. Ensure the mixture is blended uniformly.

Bind and Mold: Mist the mixture lightly with Witch Hazel or alcohol and immediately mix until the mixture holds its shape when squeezed. Quickly press the mixture firmly into your chosen bath bomb mold.

Curing: Carefully remove the bath bomb from the mold and allow it to dry and harden completely for 24–48 hours in a dry place before packaging.

Recommendations:

• Dispersion: Polysorbate 80 is crucial for this bath bomb to prevent the colorant from forming a ring on the tub.

• Intensity: For a vibrant red, stick to the recommended 3–5 drops of the Pomegranate Gel Colorant per 300g batch.

• Safety: Always wear gloves when handling concentrated colorants to avoid staining.