MAKE Holi Natural Colors - Ingredients and Tips

Holi is the most awaited festival for Indians especially by youngsters. It will be celebrated this year on 2nd March, 2018 and Holika Dahan is slated to be celebrated on 1st March, 2018. Holi is beautiful festival of colors. Everyone likes color. Many different types of colors are present in the market. But very harmful chemical contain in these colors which are the cause of many disease. So you can make this festival more beautiful with herbal colors which can be easily made by you at home with very cheap ingredients. So get ready to play safe holi with chemical free natural colors. Here are the tips for making it.

How Make Natural Color For Holi:

Make Red Color-

For dry color:

Ingredients:

⦁ Natural Sindoor or Red Sandalwood Powder (Lal Chandan) 

⦁ Refined Flour (Maida)

Method:

Take double quantity of Refined Flour (Maida), add two teaspoons Natural Sindoor or Red Sandalwood Powder (Lal Chandan) to make dry red color. You can use kasturi for fragrance.

For wet color:

Ingredients:

⦁ Boil Beetroot (Chukandar) / Rose Petals /Red Sandalwood Powder (Lal Chandan)/ Red Hibiscus Flowers (Gurhal)

⦁ Refined Flour (Maida)

Method:

⦁ Boil Beetroot (Chukandar) in water or soak overnight in vessel

⦁ Use crushed Rose Petals soaked in water.

⦁ Mix Red Sandalwood Powder in water.

⦁ Red Hibiscus Flowers (Gurhal) soaked in overnight in water.

Yellow Color-

For dry color:

Ingredients:

⦁ Turmeric (Haldi) 

⦁ Gram Flour (Basen) 

Method:

Take double quantity of Gram Flour (Basen), add two teaspoons Turmeric (Haldi) to make dry Yellow color. You are using Turmeric (Haldi) in which already contains good fragrance. This mixture is used widely as an ubtan while taking bath which is good for skin.

For wet color:

Ingredients:

⦁ Marigold (Genda) /Turmeric (Haldi) 

⦁ Water

Method:

⦁ Boil Marigold (Genda) in water or soak overnight in vessel.

⦁ Mix Turmeric (Haldi) in water.

Green Color-

Ingredients For dry color-

Crushed powder of dried Fenugreek or mint.

For wet color-

Mix the paste of green leafy vegetables. Use few leaves of spinach, coriander, Fenugreek or radish in water to make green colored water.

Brown Color-

Ingredients:
⦁ Tea leaves or Coffee
⦁ Water

Method:
Tea leaves or Coffee boiled in water.

Purple Color-

Ingredients:
⦁ Back Berry
⦁ Water

Method:
Mixture of Back Berry juice and water

Orange Color-

Ingredients:

⦁ Tesu flowers (Palash) 

⦁ Water

Method:

Tesu flowers are soaked in warm water one day before of Holi. On the next day you can used to play Holi.