How to paint eggs on Easter with natural dyes?

How to paint eggs on Easter with natural dyes?

Easter eggs that we see today on holiday tables and in the temples, hostesses mostly paint shop dyes. And although manufacturers are written on packaging that they are safe to risk them. In any case, these paints are made with the addition of a variety of chemical elements. It is better to seek the experience of our ancestors, which for dyeing eggs used natural dyes.



1
Long husk - color brown or lilac

The most famous and affordable dye for eggs is the usual leek husk.

  • Weather husks from Luke in large quantities. It will take you no less than 3 glasses, tightly rammed.
  • Bring 1.2 liters of water to a boil and put all the husks in it. Boil it until 200 ml of water is popped into a saucepan.
  • Pour the water along with the husk to another pan, which set the colander. The husks throw off, and brown water will warm up to 80-90 degrees.
  • In hot dark brown water, lower the pre-boiled eggs and keep them there so much time, what color you want to get. For 30-40 minutes, the eggs will become light brown, in two or three hours - the color will become darker. If the eggs you hold in the pans of hours 5-6, then they will be painted in a dark brown color.
  • In the same way, you can paint eggs into a purple color. To do this, collect the husk from the Red Crimean Onion.



2
Cherry bark - color red

With red, this color can be called conditionally, but eggs in this brave are obtained unusual bright color.

  • In a saucepan of three liters, put a lot of bark from the old trees of Cherry. The crust fill in the tank half. The remaining volume is water.
  • Boil the bark until the water gets dark color. Cour from it delete.
  • Boiled eggs immerse in a saucepan with red water and leave them there for a whole night.

3
Cranberries, red currant, raspberry - color pink

This method is suitable for those owners who grow berries on their plot.

  • From one variety of berries or their mixture squeeze juice.
  • Boil the bare eggs.
  • Put eggs into juice and hold them in a pink fluid at least 5-6 hours.

4
Beet - Burgundy color

Beautiful saturated color of the egg will turn out if they are painted with beet juice.

  • Stit on the grater of beets and press juice from it.
  • Boil the eggs until readiness and let them cool.
  • Place the eggs in a saucepan with juice and let them absorb the beet pigment.

5
Spinach, Parsley, Celery - Green Color

Juices of these plants paint eggs into green. But to obtain the juice of greenery, you need a lot. Eggs, too, first need to boil, and then hold a few hours in the fresh squeezed green juice.

A few more ways to paint eggs in green:

  1. Make a steep decoction of dry blueberries. It takes half a glass into two glasses of water. Blue decoction strain and mix it with a yellow turmeric powder. In this mixture, lean the eggs before getting the desired shade or simply hold the eggs in it already boiled.
  2. Take 300 g of frozen spinach. Place it into a small saucepan and pour 1 liter of water to the greenery. Put with raw eggs in this mixture and bring the content to boil. Boil eggs together with spinach 10-15 minutes. During this time they will get green.

6
Turmeric or saffron - yellow color

These well-known spices will give eggs yellow. In one glass of hot water, dissolve two tablespoons of turmeric and a pinch of saffron. Lower boiled eggs in the yellow water alone and keep them in the liquid before getting the desired shade. This method involves the use of only one glass of water, because the spices of yellow color are very expensive.

7
Red Cabbage - Blue Color

Blue color will be as a result of adding cabbage cubbunds to the decoction.

  • Two small cabbage heads finely cut and pour them with water. Water Take so much so that it covers the whole cabbage.
  • Pour to cabbage with water 6 tablespoons of vinegar fortress in 9%. Bring the mass to a boil and retain from the stove.
  • Give water completely paints cabbage juice, and then lower the boiled eggs in it. Keep eggs in blue liquid at least 10 hours.

After any kind of staining, remove the eggs from the colored liquid and gently flow into their soft napkins or let them dry in a natural way. Next, take the most soft tissue of the type of bike and moisten it with vegetable oil. Oil napkin gently wash all the painted eggs. Oil film will give Easter symbols shine and elegacity.

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