[MR] re: blue vitriol sample color

[Becky McEllistrem]

hehehehehe....

As it turns out I'm getting mixed messages about
whether it's truly the dye or just a mordant. Too bad
I didn't like chemistry in college! <grin>

And somewhere along the way I gotta go get chemistry
set just so I can experiment before I try my
experiments and see what this does...  *sigh*

Rebecca
--- David Wendelken <davewendelken at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> 
> 
> >From: Becky McEllistrem <bmcellis at yahoo.com>
> 
> >I want to create a soap display for University and
> >Challenge of the Heart but one of the recipes I am
> >recreating uses blue vitriol.  Since I want to give
> >samples away I really won't use anything so toxic
> in
> >the soap.  
> >
> >As I understand it blue vitriol creates a pretty
> dark 
> >blue-green color in dyes.  Does anyone have an
> online sample 
> >of what the color would really be so I can find a
> gentler substitute?
> 
> Really, for someone named Rebecca the Contrary, I'm
> astounded that you need
> help getting an online sample of vitriol on THIS
> email list!
> 
> Half a dozen topics will get you all the vitriol you
> can stand.
> 
> (Now, for "blue" vitriol, you might have to ask
> people to respond to you
> privately...)
> 
> xxxooo
> 
> 
>
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