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Where can I purchase organic inks and dyes and/or low impact dyes online?

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I would be using them for printing on cotton and hemp material. Thanks!!!

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  1. Be careful when using the word organic as you get closer to an industrial context.  In industrial chemistry, organic generally means derived from benzine or similar precursors.  These can be highly synthetic and or dangerous chemicals (benzine itself, is a significant carcinogen).  

    For the record, most all the dyes that will be both colorfast and colorful will be synthetic (this is how the modern chemical insustry got its start- artificial dyes, the first being mauve, derived from coal tar).  Many nonindustrial dyes will unfortunately be of the 'make it yourself, hippie' variety

    You want to look for "natural" (whatever that means) or traditional dyes.  Try the following links:

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