Add it to a neutral AZ base.
Grenadine Red can be incorporated into the following ready-made AZ neutral bases:
Cleansing cream base at a maximum dosage of 1.0%
Youth and Refreshing cream bases at a maximum dosage of 0.5%
Vegetable Milk Base at a maximum dosage of 0.5%
Hair mask base at a maximum dosage of 1.0%
Massage Oil Base at a maximum dosage of 1.0%
Concentrated micellar base at a maximum dosage of 1.0%
Melt & Pour bases at a maximum dosage of 1.0%
Melt & Pour Stick base at a maximum dosage of 7.0%
For more information on conditions of use, please refer to the technical data sheets for these bases, available online on our website.
Make your recipe from start to finish.
This oily liquid dye can be used diluted in emulsions (creams and milks), glosses, balms and sticks, oils, candles, etc.
Oils: incorporate the Grenadine Red Dye into your oil-based preparation, stirring to homogenise.
Solid oil mixtures (lipsticks, sticks, balms, candles): incorporate the Grenadine Red Dye into the melted oil phase before pouring the product into its container or mould.
Lip gloss: add the Grenadine Red Dye to the mixture while cold.
Emulsions (creams, milks): add the Grenadine Red Dye at the end of preparation, to the cooled emulsion.
Foaming products: add the Grenadine Red Dye at the end of preparation. As it is oily, this dye can thin foaming products. To avoid this, use a low dosage (0.1 to 0.5% is generally sufficient for a beautiful colour in a shower gel), or pre-mix the colorant with a little Base Consistance surfactant (up to 10% in the recipe).
Alcoholic products (perfumes, compositions for reed diffusers): add the Grenadine Red Dye at the end of the preparation. For good solubility in alcohol, limit yourself to a low dosage (0.1-0.2%).
Notes:
In products containing water (creams, milks, soaps, foaming products), the colour varies slightly depending on the pH: it tends towards purple-pink at alkaline pH and more towards red at acidic pH.
Grenadine Red Dye is more stable than anthocyanin-type plant pigments (such as organic beet juice), but the colour tends to fade or even disappear when exposed to light for long periods of time. We recommend keeping your products away from sunlight and direct light.
Grenadine Red Dye can be used to obtain a wide range of shades:
Pale pinks, ballerina pink: use between 0.1 and 1% in a white preparation (e.g., a pH-neutral cream or lotion, a balm with white butter, or a candle made from white wax, such as soy wax).
Pale "salmon" pinks: dosed between 0.1 and 1% in a white emulsion (cream, milk) with a slightly acidic pH or a slightly yellow preparation (emulsion with fairly coloured vegetable oils, balm with vegetable butters, yellow beeswax candles).
Pink to deep pink tones: use between 1 and 7% in a white preparation (e.g., a pH-neutral cream or lotion, a balm with white butter, or a candle made from white wax, such as soy wax).
Orange tones: dosed between 1 and 7% in a yellow to orange base (for example, containing orange oils such as Buriti, Sea Buckthorn, Tomato, which in small doses can give an emulsion, oil, or candle an orange tone).
Translucent "grenadine" tones: dosed between 0.5 and 1% in foaming products or between 0.5 and 4% in colourless or lightly coloured oily preparations (or oily mixtures with emollients such as Coco silicone, Dry Touch, Dicaprylyl carbonate, Caprylis).
Translucent orange-pink to orange-red tones: dosed between 0.1 and 7% in oily preparations or yellow to orange oily mixtures.
