March 2024 Limited Edition
Color Lab Orange: B05-E10 (Marigolds)
Color Lab Orange: B05-E10 (Marigolds)
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 March, 2024 is:
Book 5, Entry 10.
Available through March 31, 2024 or until sold out.
(Marigolds)
What a super happy orange! This hits all the spots I was hoping for. Looks like marigolds, mandarins, apricots, carrots, candy, California poppies….I could go on and on. This is the light and bright orange we’ve been wanting to achieve!
In cold process (CP) soaps, I used 3 grams for a pound of CP soap batter - melt and pour I went with ½ teaspoon per pound of clear base and they both came out great, but very different.
The CP soap looked like a radiant circus peanut - in clear MP, it was a vibrant and punchy marigold color.
I also poured epoxy resin to see the color and it made me think of orange flavored sour hard candies. I am in love with this one.
Ingredients | FDA Info | SDS
Ingredients | FDA Info | SDS
Orange: B05-E10 (Marigolds) | SDS |
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Product Type | Mica/pigment blend |
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 | 1–60 μm |
Ingredients | Mica, titanium dioxide, polyurethane-11, iron oxides, FD&C yellow no. 5 aluminum lake |
Usage Rate in Soap
Usage Rate in Soap
Cold process soap | 1-2 tsp per lb. of oils OR 2½-3 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. |
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.
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This is THE PERFECT ORANGE!! I LOVE IT!!! I have looked EVERYWHERE for a color like this and not found an orange like this one.. It is so BEAUTIFUL it's Orange Groves, Sunshine and Bright Marigolds in a jar! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP THIS COLOR!!! It's PERFECT
I purchased this to make my orange slice embeds but I also added a bit of pink mica to achieve a peach color for my peach slice embeds.
I haven’t used them yet, but the colors seem so vibrant and beautiful. Can’t wait to try them out.
I’m so glad that I grabbed a bigger jar of this before it was out of stock. It’s a beautiful, vibrant orange and it works so well in CP.
What a great color! It's super bright and a little bit went a long way. (I actually needed to tone it down with some TD, but it turned out so beautiful!). I'm so glad I got the bigger container, I will be using this a lot this fall!