Mica Pigment Powder 24 Bags

I purchased this to use in snowglobe tumblers. The bags of pigments are very small but you get a nice variety of colors and they worked well for my intended use. I can get a couple uses out of each color, so overall a good deal.

I wasn't expecting much from an inexpensive little set of mica powders, but man there are a ton of really pretty samples! 2-3 of each color in varying shades is really nice (some have four). Great little set at a great price for people just starting out and overloaded with options. They mix well, solid color saturation, and nice outcome.

Wonderful colors

The product itself is amazing and works exactly as advertised. You get all the colors in the picture and depending on the size of your project there’s quite a bit of product per baggy. The only thing that drops this rating to four stars was the box they arrived in. It was torn and collapsing and looked very rough

I used it to color Plastisol while making soft plastic lures. Color comes out really nice. So far I have tested lime green and hot pink. My lures look great.

I love these. For a beginning soap-maker, they're wonderful to work with, an excellent introduction to working with micas that won't break the bank (if you're wondering whether or not to splurge and get the 50-pack, you might want to). Although they come in 0.1oz baggies, that goes much further than you might think. According to the manufacturer, one 0.1 oz packet is enough to color 50-175 oz (about 3.1-10.9 lbs) of soap, depending on how intense you want your colors to be (i found measuring to be a bit of a trial-and-error thing, since my scale doesn't go to hundredth-place increments). The only trouble is when using the mica as an accent rather than as a colorant, you're liable to use way more than you actually need. Less really is more with this stuff. Fortunately, with 24 packets there are bound to be a couple colors you feel you can use freely and for experimental purposes before using your favorites. Cold process: I've used these twice in cold process soap: the first one (at its 4-week checkup) held up very well. The second (at it's 1-week checkup) seems to be maturing fairly well. Melt and pour: it produces decent pastels when mixed with a white melt and pour base. The clear melt and pour projects I've done have all used the mica as an accent (rose-quartz chips in matrix, 'painted' onto bon-bon shaped embeds, etc.) and has produced lovely effects. The mica mostly stays, but a little will come off, which touched the rest of the clear with color and sparkle. I found it quite agreeable. I haven't used these in bath bombs, but the box does come with a little bottle of Polysorbate 80, and instructions on how to use it. Pros: -Bright assortment of fantastic colors! -Cheap enough not to feel like you can experiment without feeling the need to hoard your precious colors! -Hold up reasonably well in cold process soap -Do really well in melt and pour -A little bit goes a long way! Cons: -I was a little disappointed not to receive anything approaching a decent red. I'm still not sure how to feel about the 'oranges' I got. The Vineous is muted, the Light Papaya doens't really pop (not as far as I've used it). I class them as 'orange' but I'd really have liked an orange that was recognizable as a bold orange. -I've heard other soap makers talk about getting pearly looks with micas, but I have yet to get anything I'd call 'pearly' with these. Then again, I'm still exploring their usage. -Knowing how much mica I need has been something of a struggle, since I don't have a scale sensitive enough to measure to 0.0x. That said, once I adopted someone else's "1/2 tsp. per pound of soap" things got easier. It's a good ballpark figure to start with. Anyway, these cons are really minor things, and a little quality time with Google cleared at least one of them up. I highly recommend this for soap makers who are still at that stage of deciding if soaping is right for them (or those who think it is and simply want to experiment without breaking the bank or going through soap-making suppliers).

I have used a epoxy plenty before, but only the fast setting adhesive application type. This was my 1st time using a slow setting two part epoxy and adding pigment to it, and so I picked up these mica powders. Pros: It seems like a great value - a ton of colors and even though the amounts are small, a little goes a long way. You might need larger size if doing large river tables, for example, but I am using 2 oz quantities of epoxy for small wood carving art. It mixed well, and seem to disperse in the resin nicely. The colors are great, I did some color combining and found some of the colors to have a nice pearlescent quality to them, which gives some nice dimension to finished product.

Loved this buy!! You get so many and a little goes along way. Is doesn't mess up the texture or the cure time.