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If you are colouring any wax, you must use an oil soluble dye.

If it is paraffin wax, we recommend the dye is dissolved in 10% stearin.

This way you can be sure of obtaining complete suspension of colour.

If the colour is yellow, red or orange, then it is not essential to use stearic acid, except that you should bear in mind that the mould release properties of stearin will be absent.

These dyes can be mixed to obtain other colours, for example, pink + blue = violet, red + vellow = orange, blue + yellow = green. If you are dyeing beeswax, you also need not use stearin.

A word of warning because these are strong commercial grade dyes you should take care when using them.

For example, over-dyed wax diminishes the glowing effect of a burning candle. Also some of these dyes tend to spread easily.

This is particularly true of PINK, and if you are not careful a PINK working area will result.

These dyes are available in 1 oz. containers, which is sufficient dye to colour 1/4 ton of wax.

They are also available in Dyediscs, which will colour 2 Kilos. of wax.

These solid dyes are more conveniant for the hobbyist as a far greater degree of accuracy is possible. Dye in this form is easily measured, it is also far less messy than the powdered dye.

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