How To Make Natural Eco Friendly Holi Colors At Home – Easy Steps
How To Make Natural Eco Friendly Holi Colours
Yellow Colour
- Add one teaspoon of haldi to two litres of water and stir well. This can be boiled to increase the concentration of colour and further diluted.
- Soak Amaltas (Cassia fistula) or Marigold / Gainda (Tagetus erecta) flowers in water. Boil and leave overnight.
Magenta Colour
- Slice or grate one Beet root. Soak in 1 litre of water for a wonderful magenta. Boil or leave overnight for a deeper shade. Dilute.
- Boil the peels of 10 – 15 pink Onions in half litre of water for an orangish-pink colour. Remove the peels before using to remove the smell.
- Soak Kachnar (Bauhinia variegata) flowers (pink variety) in water overnight, or boil for a
- pinkish colour.
Brown Colour
- Kattha (Acacia catechu), the one eaten in pan, when mixed with water will give a brownish colour.
- Boil Tea or Coffee leaves in water. Cool and use.
Black Colour
- Boil dried fruits of Amla / Indian Gooseberry in an iron vessel and leave overnight. Dilute with water and use.
- Extract juice of black grapes and dilute with sufficient quantity of water to remove stickiness
Green Colour
- Mix two teaspoons of mehendi in one litre of water. Stir well.
- Green colour can also be obtained by mixing a fine paste of leaves like spinach / palak, coriander / dhaniya, mint / pudina, tomato leaves, etc. in water.
Red Colour
- Put 2 teaspoons of Red Sandal wood powder in a litre of water and boil. Dilute and use.
- Peels of Red Pomegranate boiled in water give red.
- For a bright orangish-red, mix thoroughly a pinch of chuna / lime powder (the one that we eat with our paan / betel leaves) with 2 spoons of haldi / turmeric powder and a few drops of water. Use only after diluting with 10 litres of water.
Blue Colour
- Crush the berries (fruits) of the Indigo plant and add to water for desired colour strength. In some Indigo species the leaves when boiled in water yield a rich blue.
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