May 2024 Limited Edition
Color Lab™ Purple: B07-E02 (Velvet Plum)
Color Lab™ Purple: B07-E02 (Velvet Plum)
What Are Color Lab Colors?
What Are Color Lab Colors?
COLOR LAB™: Mad Micas colorists create hundreds of colors that don't go into regular production; here's your chance to take a peek into the lab.
Each month we'll be rolling out a new color complete with notes from that colorist's lab book and making it available for one month only.
Note: Some Color Lab colors may eventually be made part of our permanent collection.
The Color Lab selection for May, 2024 is:
Book 7, Entry 2.
Available through May 31, 2024 or until sold out.
(Velvet Plum™)
Smoky dark purple. Velvety, like a Queen’s gown or the stuffed royal chairs she sits in while having her afternoon tea. This color also brings back memories from when I was a small child: watching my grandmother's purple pansies and African Violets in her windowsill dancing in the light summer breeze.
Testing with our standard 3 grams per pound of cold process soap batter gave me a smoky purple that became richer and deeper while it cured. Bright and mesmerizing in epoxy resin and clear MP soap (usage in MP was ½ teaspoon per lb. of clear base).
Ingredients | FDA Info | SDS
Ingredients | FDA Info | SDS
| Purple: B07-E02 (Velvet Plum) SDS | |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Mica |
| FDA-Permitted for External Use | Yes |
| FDA-Permitted for Eye Area Use | Yes |
| FDA-Permitted for General (Including Lips) Use | Yes |
| FDA-Permitted for Bath Bombs Use | Yes |
| Particle Size | 10–60 μm |
| Ingredients | Mica, titanium dioxide, manganese violet, tin dioxide, iron oxides |
Usage Rate in Soap
Usage Rate in Soap
| Cold process soap | 1-2 tsp per lb. of oils OR 2-3 g per pound of batter |
| Melt & pour soap | ½ tsp per lb. of MP base |
NOTE: White MP base will always create a pastel form of the color due to titanium dioxide in base. |
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Ethical, Cruelty-Free, Vegan
Ethical, Cruelty-Free, Vegan
Mad Micas is committed to holding ourselves and our suppliers to the highest ethical standards. We have established a strict set of guiding principles that govern our actions and our supply lines that are rigid and non-negotiable.
Animal Cruelty Statement
- Mad Micas has never tested any of our products or their individual ingredients/raw materials on animals and we never will.
- Mad Micas will never purchase from any supplier or manufacturer whom we know to participate in any form of animal testing or cruelty.
- Mad Micas suppliers certify to us that no raw material used in the production of mica or other products we purchase from them has been tested on animals.
Vegan Statement
- All products we buy, sell or give away are 100% vegan. This includes refusing to carry any products colored using carmine.
Supply Line Ethics and Child Labor Statement
- Mad Micas sources exclusively from ethical supply lines.
- Mad Micas requires declarations from all suppliers stating that no minors participate in mining, factory work, transportation or any other process involved in the production of anything we carry.
- Mad Micas will not source product from areas (for example, mica from India) in which there have been documented ethical transgressions.
- The Mad Micas transport supply chain consists exclusively of major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and DHL and thus is free of forced or child labor.
Additional questions about our standards and practices should be directed to our office via phone or email.
Download a printable version of the Mad Micas Ethics Statement.
Large Volume Purchases
Large Volume Purchases
5- and 10-pound sizes come in bags, not in jars or buckets, in order to help reduce plastic use and our carbon footprint.
Need larger quantities? Mad Micas offers aggressive discounts on large quantities of all colorants we manufacture, and we reserve customer-specific racking in our warehouse for our large volume clients to help smooth supply chain ripples.
Talk to us and find out how we can make your color life better AND easier.
CA Prop 65
CA Prop 65
WARNING: This product can expose you to titanium dioxide, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer. Titanium dioxide appears on the Proposition 65 warning list only while in the form of "airborne, unbound particles of respirable size." Once incorporated into a liquid or solid base it is no longer on the list. For more information go towww.P65Warnings.ca.gov
Trademark Information
Trademark Information
The name of this product, as well as the name Color Lab™, is trademarked by Mad Oils, Inc d/b/a Mad Micas.
Customer Reviews
I used to use a different "plum" shade of purple from another company for my Kakadu Plum MP soap, but no longer! Velvet Plum will be permanently replacing this other inferior mica. I wish I had bought more of it, but I was new to Mad Micas at the time, and didn't know much about the Color Lab colours. I'm hoping that this color will make a comeback, especially because it is stable in both CP and MP soap! A little bit of this goes a LONG way, so if you want a lighter shade, it is suggested to mix it with titanium dioxide or a white mica of some description -- it will create beautiful shades of purple of different intensities. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
A great purple!
Great purple! Deep purple!
I love Velvet Plum color. I hope it will come back. Such a beautiful color for my Fall soap collection.
I used Velvet Plum to make a little epoxy resin heart-shaped jar and lid and it turned out beautifully! Such a gorgeous deep color! Well done MM!