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Coloring wax - Dye or pigment?
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I want to add color to some white Schylling wax (a grande). I've found a local dealer with supplies for candle making. They say that their neon paraffin colors are all pigment, but they have many…Continue
Tags: lava
Started this discussion. Last reply by tim Jul 5, 2023.
What bleach for fluid? (Solved)
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(Edit: I had to add more chlorine to make it go clear - 1 ml for an Astro bottle was more than enough. Less could do.)Some people have had success with bleaching fluids to clear. Despite concerns…Continue
Tags: bleach
Started this discussion. Last reply by bob Feb 7.
Looking for a source of glitter
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Hello, I am looking for a source of glitter, preferably 10*10 mm silver squares. It needs to be resistant to a calcium nitrate solution or maybe even also perchloroethylene.Holographic would also be…Continue
Tags: glitter
Started this discussion. Last reply by Adrian Dec 19, 2022.
Anyone interested in Triton X-100 in EU?
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I'm considering to buy for example 1 liter of Triton X-100 surfactant from China. Best offer so far is 19 USD + 55 USD shipping. It's hard and expensive to get in EU, and almost impossible to find…Continue
Tags: surfactant
Started this discussion. Last reply by Arne Aug 19, 2022.
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"They might work. The only way to know for sure is by buying a sample and trying it out."
"Hello Adrian.Not all candle wax dyes work in lava lamps
Many will cloud or leach their color into the fluidFlourecnewt colors fade fast too>We have tried a Yellow neon color and it turned the fluid yellow while the actual wax bled until it was…"
Coloring wax - Dye or pigment?
I want to add color to some white Schylling wax (a grande). I've found a local dealer with supplies for candle making. They say that their neon paraffin colors are all pigment, but they have many normal colors both as dye and pigment. Is dye better than pigment? I see people with neon wax in grandes, and as far as I understand, you can indeed get fluorescent dye.For people who don't know, dye is soluble and will not cloud a liquid, pigment is suspended particles and will cloud a liquid.I am…See More
"Didn't try the calcium chloride, I saw some people who moved on to the nitrate. The commercial glitter lamps I have had did not have calcium nitrate as far as I can tell, and they didn't smell like solvent. I can't make the glitter…"
"Thank you SO MUCH for the info Adrian! Have you tried Calcium Chloride? It's easier to get in larger quantities. I've read that there are problems with it in glitter lamps."
"I bought a big bag of fertilizer, but it's very impure. I filtered through cut out corners of vacuum cleaner bags in a funnel twice (hard to get the liquid through, the bags are waterprooof until squeezed many times while wet). You can get…"
"Hi Adrian,
It seems that you've already successfully made glitter lamps (except for the glitter itself). I want to try my hand at it, but I have no idea how much Calcium nitrate I need. How much do you use to produce a lamp that's…"
"it will take some searching,..but somewhere on here someone posted a recipe for mathmos master fluid"
"1% of about 500ml fluid is 5ml. That's a lot of drops. I now put in a few ml's of Triton X-100, that worked! I even have to replace some of the fluid because of too much surfactant now. Well, now I learned that Triton can do the trick. It…"
"I believe its a combination of SLES and Triton with Triton being only @1%"
"I just got my hands on Triton X-100, before I used SLES. So far no success, used 5 drops of Triton (small drops) in a Mathmos Jet bottle with wax from a new bottle. Still just one big round blob going up and down. I'll try to use more Triton…"
"Did you use TritonX as a surfactant?"
"It's Mathmos. I haven't heard of anyone successfully replacing newer Mathmos fluids - it only flows in big blobs that don't break up unless you add original fluid to the mix.It don't want to buy countless bottles of clear/plum to…"
"You should just use printer ink to re-color it - or some water soluble color (not food color in my experience, you get sediments in the top). Ink can make it a little hazy tho, but not much."
""I just tried chlorine (Sodium Hypochlorite) on blue Mathmos fluid, but it turned darker and into indigo!"
Well this is really good to know actually, I've been struggling with my indigos turning clear!"
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