ironymaiden | taste the rainbow, but don't sit in it

i used to have a reasonably-sized set of Wilton gel colors that i used for dying yarn/fiber (and occasionally food). not that i can find them now. C thinks that i might have purged them at one point since we do live across the street from JoAnn's.

this is to say that i was plotting the next batch of bath bombs and thought i might try adding some color, and surely gel food color would be an appropriate choice since it wouldn't add water to the mixture? i did a little research and it turns out that it's better that i didn't find them - dye for uses where it may contact your delicate bits must pass more stringent safety testing than dye you can eat. ("lip safe" is chemically less irritating than "food safe".) technically i can make food-colored ones for myself, but i shouldn't give them away and it's illegal to sell them. since i'm sensitive to a random assortment of chemicals i probably shouldn't chance it.

so now there's a sampler of two different types of lip safe cosmetic colorants coming my way.