Dyeing is one of the main processes that is responsible for the beautification of textiles; giving them colour, vibrancy and lustre. The global awareness for the need to eliminate chemical dyes harmful to the environment and the end user has led to the emergence of herbal dyes. These dyes are herbal extractions and have excellent qualities when compared with the harmful chemical dyes.
Dyes and pigments have evolved tremendously over the years and today their importance is not limited to lending color to various substrates. They have also become a vital constituent of biomedicine and biotechnology industry. Their journey has been a long one beginning with research into devising varied colors and forms that would act as colorants to plastics, textiles, inks and printing, paints and every possible aspect of our daily lives.
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The colorful world as is seen to us today is in a large measure a result of the use of colorants in every sphere of our lives. Colorants are responsible for imparting colour to a substrate like paper, paint, plastic, textiles and so on. The two important colorant sources are the dyes and pigments. However, there lies some difference in the features, manner of use, benefits and the sore points of each of them though quite often the terms, pigment, dye, colorant, dyestuff, paint, colour are incorrectly used interchangeably.
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Solvents play an important role in pigments and herbal extracts. The performance attributes of paints are multiplied manifold with the use of solvents and for herbal extracts solvents act as the medium through which the herbal properties are extracted from the plant material.
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Can we imagine the world without the bright hues of various colours? Colours make the world more attractive, fresh and aesthetic. Colours improve the appearance of not only the clothes, homes, offices, and food but also cars, toys, beauty products, waxes, paints, etc. A correct shade of colour as per the area of application can be a positive selling point for a product making it easily marketable.
Paints have been present since ancient times but they began to be commonly used only since the nineteenth century. Today, paints not only lend color to several applications but also offer protection to surfaces on which they are used. In addition to painting houses, paints are used to give color to automobiles, underground storage vessels, road markings, ships and many more items.
Pigments have entered into every aspect of our life and made it very colorful and bright. Since the time they were naturally discovered to today’s times when they are synthetically produced in laboratories, pigments have come a long way in terms of their use and application. Today, we find that pigments have wound their way into several hundreds of applications ranging from plastics, inks, paints, textiles, soaps and detergents and many more.