Staining Styrene with Natural Materials( Food Safe)

[joedoc973]

Long time member looking for something natural to stain White styrene plastic. My little brother is celebrating his 50th birthday and his wife wants to throw him a Viking Themed Party. I want to take the Lindberg 1/1 scale skull and make him a drinking cup out of it. Was thinking of using alot of teabags, any thoughts or Ideas ???

 

[DiggsBarklightr]

Why not use Rit fabric dye? It’s mostly salt based, non toxic and cheap. I’ve used it to dye plastics for many years on models,RC cars and even car parts.

 

[joedoc973]

Thanks, but is it food safe ? Dont want to kill my little bother on his birthday...lol

 

[DiggsBarklightr]

Yeah probably not good idea because Rit doesn’t fully say it can be used on food safe containers. I’ve always used an old pot to boil in when I used it. My best suggestion is try the easter egg dye by PAAS because I’ve seen they have a plastic egg/dye combo in years past and those would be considered food safe as they are used to hold candy etc.

 

[DiggsBarklightr]

Just googled it and yep, they still make it.

 

[joedoc973]

cool, thanks