Plant-Based Purple Elderberry Pigment

• Applications: Makeup

• Difficulty of implementation: Easy

• Production of cosmetic recipes: Yes

Used as an ingredient in your preparations to make:

• Lipsticks

• Lip glosses

• Blushes or eyeshadows in stick (balm) form

• Nail polishes

• Tinted balms

• Candles

Can be used to color liquid oily blends, but the colorant will settle at the bottom after a while; shake well to restore the color.

• This colorant disperses poorly in water and emulsions, and the shade may change in the presence of water depending on the pH.

• It is not suitable for water-based products such as lotions, gels, creams, or milks.

In makeup, purple elderberry plant pigment is known for these properties:

• 100% natural plant-based colorant

• Beautiful intense purple color, allows for a range of plum tones

• Highly concentrated pigment for powerful coloring power

• Easily dispersible in oil and oily mixtures

• Solubilizes perfectly in nail polish base

• Very good light stability when dispersed in an oily formula or nail polish

Purple Elderberry Plant Pigment is mixed with:

The melted oil phase, off the heat, at the end of the preparation, just before pouring your:

• lipsticks

• glosses

• stick eyeshadows

With the Stick Melt & Pour, Gloss and Nail Polishbases to make your:

• balms, glosses, lipsticks and lip pencils

• eyeshadows

• coloured nail polishes

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To prepare a glitter top coat, add natural glitter to your mixture.

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Plant-Based Purple Elderberry Pigment

• Can be used as a single dye for purple tones.

• Can be combined with other dyes, such as Sweet Potato Pink and Radish Red plant pigments, mineral oxides, or micas to create your own shades.

• Combine with white paste to improve coverage in lipsticks.

Colors obtained in a white base

Purple Elderberry

Dye dosage 0.5%

Purple Elderberry

Dye dosage 1%

Purple Elderberry

Dye dosage 2%

Quality

100% natural origin, cosmetic quality (compliant with Annex IV of European Regulation EC No. 1223/2009)

Method of production

Anthocyanin pigments from black elderberries, extracted with a mixture of water and ethanol (vegetable alcohol) and placed on a modified starch carrier with the addition of citric acid. The high-tech process used to coat this dye produces an anthocyanin-based pigment that is easily dispersible in oil and has optimal light stability (whereas anthocyanins are usually rather insoluble in oil and not very stable in light).

Part of the plant used

Berries

Botanical name

Sambucus nigra L.

Botanical family

Adoxaceae

Function

Cosmetic dye

INCI Name

Distarch phosphate, Anthocyanins, Citric acid

Organoleptic properties

98% of particles are < 30 microns

Main active ingredients

Anthocyanins (red plant pigments)

Storage

• Store away from air, moisture, heat, and light.

• Close the jar tightly after each use.

Usage precautions

• Keep out of reach of children.

• Avoid contact with eyes. In case of accidental contact, rinse thoroughly with clean water.