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The paragraph is this: > Dyes must be "bloomed" before use. In their unbloomed state (i.e. in the jar) they are different color than in use. For example, our B
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
The paragraph is this:
> Dyes must be "bloomed" before use. In their unbloomed state (i.e. in the jar) they are different color than in use. For example, our Bright Green Dye is brown in the jar, then turns a vibrant bright green when bloomed in water.
It does a pretty good job, together with the rest of the article, explaining that blooming means letting it dissolve in water, at which point the color changes.
I'm not familiar with dyeing at all, but "blooming" is used in a bunch of other contexts that mean similar things, e.g. "coffee blooming" (adding water to freshly ground coffee), even things like "algae blooms".
- crazygringo 3y agoAfter reading multiple comments here, I decided to look it up, and discovered: > Blooming is the process of adding your bath bomb dye to hot water and mixing it with sodium bicarbonate So no, it's not just dissolving it in water. It's dissolving it in hot water and adding an additional totally separate chemical. So no, the article does not do a "pretty good job" at explaining. It doesn't explain any of that.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoOK, you're right, I apologize and take back what I said. Wouldn't have assumed at all from that description that blooming means adding a base.
- dylan604 3y agoOne of their dyes is yellow as a powder, but it reacts with lye water when making soap so that it turns a bright orange. Once the saponifying process is completed, the orange comes back to the expected yellow. Very unnerving process when you failed to read that part of the product listing. I also happened to use it for the first time with a fragrance that super accelerated, so it was a double whammy of a disappointing feeling. So at least the fact it turned back to yellow made the batch less disappointing.