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Livos SALIS Natural Hemp Finger Paint for Kids is fascinating to young children, and finger-painting is a wonderful sensory activity--kids can squish the paint in their fingers and easily blend colors. With our 6-color set of petrochemical-free natural finger paint for kids, you can feel confident that your children are safe.

Our hemp-based vegan paints may be used straight from the bottle, or they may be diluted with water. Apply with your fingers, brushes, sponges, cotton swabs, string, or any other applicator you like. Get creative!

These chemical-free hemp-based paints are made without heavy metals, VOCs, or other harmful Ingredients, and derive their colors from vegetable dyes or all-natural mineral pigments. They are the only recommendable fingerpaint under the Swiss Consumer Association, No. 177, 10/90, and correspond to the German Voluntary Agreement upon Fingerpaints.

Each set contains 6 recyclable glass bottles of paint: white, yellow, red, blue, green and black. Bottles are packaged inside a recycled paperboard box.

To make cleanup easier, we recommend adding two to three drops of liquid dish soap to each bottle before its initial use. Ages 3+. 50 ml (1.7 fl. oz.) per bottle. Made in Germany.

Ingredients: water, mineral pigments (from iron oxides or naturally colored earth), hemp oil (from biodynamically grown German hemp seed), methyl cellulose, extract of gentian roots, food-grade preservative (Benzalkonium Chloride--see below)*.

Project Ideas:

• Make homemade cards by painting sturdy blank cards made from recycled paper.
• Make your own gift wrap by cutting open brown paper grocery bags and painting them. Allow to dry, then use to wrap gifts.
• Decorate your own picture frames by painting blank picture frame mattes. Insert a special photo of your child, add a cardboard back or insert in a larger frame, and you have a unique and memorable gift!
• Cut some thick paper to fit the inside of a shallow sturdy box (like a cigar box). Place a small amount of paint (one or more colors) on the paper in the box. Let your child place one or more marbles in the box and roll around to spread the paint.
  
  

*Notes on preservative: Livos has chosen to preserve these finger paints with Benzalkonium Chloride, a preservative that is also permitted for use in the food and pharmaceuticals industries. Because children may put their fingers directly in the paint jars, this preservative helps minimize the chance of microbiological contamination related to this contact.

Standard food preservatives are not suitable for the finger paints because of the low activity in the paints, and many standard cosmetic preservatives are known allergens (e.g. pHB-esters or isothiazolinones). In Germany, Benzalkonium Chloride is used in eye-drops and is permitted for the use even on mucuos membranes. Livos has chosen this preservative because the available evidence shows it to be the best and most harmless option.