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Cock Colours

Festival colour

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

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Children playing Holi with Cock Colours gulal, colour on their faces
Cock ColoursThe gulal most of India grew up with.

Categories

  • Colour powders
  • Colour gadgets
  • Colour sand
  • Rangoli

Seventy-five years 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 additives, which is what lets it wash out of skin and most fabrics. The non-combustible grade carries a slight talc or mica content that stops it catching. The cheap end of the market uses sand or industrial dye on a mineral carrier, and it does not clear the same way.

Indiblue herbal gulal pack beside a bowl of blue pigment
Indiblue
Cylinders, filled on the line
Kesar haldi herbal gulal pack on a spread of orange pigment
Kesar haldi
Paan pachouli herbal gulal pack beside a bowl of green pigment
Paan pachouli
A row of Decora rangoli colours in easy-pour bottles
Rangoli colour, in easy-pour bottles

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.