Celebrate your creativity with Party Paints!

Homemade paints for every occasion and every surface!

With a certain spooky holiday coming up, we wanted to develop a new face paint recipe. But in the end, we did you one better! Our Party Paints can be used on your face or body or even on good old-fashioned paper. Whip them up for a top-tier Halloween costume, set up a face-painting station for a fun birthday party activity, or use them to create masterpieces on paper throughout the year. 

We wanted our face paint recipe to wash off easily, but most importantly, we didn’t want it to irritate your young ones’ delicate skin, so we chose only the gentlest ingredients. This non-toxic DIY paint is perfect for transforming your pint-sized Picassos into dragons or butterflies, and it’s as easy to make as it is fun! You only need a few ingredients to guarantee hours of good times. 

Get ready to celebrate any occasion with Party Paints!

How to make non-toxic face and body paint 

Ingredients

Black paint

• 39 g (39%) aloe gel
• 34 g (34%) demineralized water
• 26 g (26%) activated charcoal
• 1 g (1%) elderberry extract

White paint 

• 34 g (34%) zinc oxide
• 29 g (29%) aloe gel
• 21 g (21%) cornstarch
• 15 g (15%) demineralized water
• 1 g (1%) elderberry extract

Colour paint 

• Add the colorants of your choosing to the white paint recipe above. To determine the appropriate quantity, we recommend you add your chosen colourant bit by bit until you reach your desired colour intensity. 

Tools

• Scale, accurate to 0.1 g
• Two small stainless steel bowls
• Six ramekins
• Two small silicone spatulas
• A few spoons
• Two jars (100 ml)

Good to know!

• To create colour paints, just use the white base above and experiment with any of our colourants (mineral colourants, micas, liquid colourants). Do keep in mind that powdered colourants may thicken your paint. To adjust the texture, just add a few extra drops of water. Conversely, if you use only liquid colourants and your paint becomes too runny, add cornstarch sparingly to thicken it.

• Alternatively, you can use whatever colourants you have on hand to make colour paints! You can use food colouring or even vegetable powders (cocoa, beet powder, spirulina, carrot powder…). Likewise, you may need to adjust the texture of your DIY face paint as above. Keep in mind that some brands of food colouring may stain or damage your skin. Be sure to read up on your chosen colourant and do a spot test to make sure your skin is not sensitive to the final product. COCOÉCO’s liquid colourants will generally not stain your skin.
• The aloe gel helps thicken your homemade paint and ensures it has the right consistency.  
• This face and body paint is astonishingly gentle on your skin! We specifically chose ingredients suitable for sensitive skin.  
• Our basic recipe here presents the ingredients and steps to follow to yield two jars of paint, one black and one white. To create colour paints, just add the colourants of your choosing to the white paint. Repeat the process for as many hues as you would like to make.   

Steps to follow

Black paint

1. Prepare and disinfect your equipment and workspace.
2. In a bowl, weigh the activated charcoal. Set aside. 
3. Weigh the aloe gel, water, and elderberry extract, each in their own ramekin.
4. Add them one by one to the bowl containing the activated charcoal.
5. Mix thoroughly using a small spatula until the preparation is smooth and homogeneous.
6. Pour the mixture into the jar.

White or coloured paint

1. Prepare and disinfect your equipment and workspace.
2. In a bowl, weigh the zinc oxide and cornstarch. Mix and set aside.
3. Weigh the aloe gel, water, and elderberry extract, each in their own ramekin.
4. Add them one by one to the bowl containing the zinc oxide and cornstarch.
5. To make a colour paint, add the colourant of your choice bit by bit, mixing between each addition, until you reach your desired hue. 
6. Mix thoroughly using a small spatula until the preparation is smooth and homogeneous.
7. Pour the mixture into the jar.

Use and conservation

These DIY paints are suitable for people of any age. This fun manual activity lets everyone express their creativity! 

To use your homemade face paints, dip a paintbrush into the pot and create your masterpiece on your face or body! Alternatively, you can use your fingertips. When you’re done with your new look, just use water and a bit of soap to wash off your paint. You may need to repeat the process a few times to completely remove your paint. This paint can also be used on paper.

When made in optimal sanitary conditions, this kid-friendly DIY paint will keep for about three months.