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Festival colour

Cock Colours

Holi colours, gulal, rangoli powder and colour gadgets, made on a corn-starch base. Seven decades of manufacturing behind a dealer network that reaches most of India.

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Categories

  • Colour powders
  • Colour gadgets
  • Colour sand
  • Rangoli

Seven decades of it

What the colour business actually is

Corn starch, not chalk

The base is the product

Gulal is milled on a corn-starch base with chemical-free colourants, which is what lets it wash out of skin and most fabrics. The cheap end of the market uses sand or industrial dye on a mineral carrier, and it does not clear the same way.

Loose gulal in several shades
Pigment before packing
Gold gulal, on the line
Cock Colours gulal in use at Holi
Rangwali Holi, the morning after the bonfire

Tested three times

Caught while it is still a batch

Every raw material is tested at intake, the run is checked at several points rather than once at the end, and product is inspected before despatch.