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Aluminium lactate is a safe and easy cold and warm mordant for all fibers like cotton, linen, hemp, Tencel, and viscose. You can also use this mordant as a cold mordant for protein, especially wool.  For aluminium lactate, the aluminium component is combined with lactic acid produced from natural and renewable food sources.

 

Aluminium lactate is a great alternative for aluminium acetate when mordanting cellulose fibers.

Aluminium lactate will give you very clear and bright colors which makes it a fantastic mordant for yellow and red natural dyes.
Aluminium lactate is certified to be compliant with GOTS 6.0.

 

As a single-step mordant, you use aluminium lactate at 5%-10% WOF for cellulose fibers.

No need to heat, dissolve the aluminium lactate in hand-warm water and top up with water at room temperature. Leave your fabrics in the mordant for at least 1.5 hours.

 

For a two-step process to create more mellow colors, use tara or oak gall tannin at 10% as first tanning and only then proceed using the aluminium lactate at 5-10% WOF. 

 

Some people will dung with wheat bran or calcium carbonate after mordanting, I am still on the fence about it and usually, just rinse well. 

 

Test results and full blog is here:

https://www.naturaldye.academy/post/aluminium-lactate-as-a-mordant-for-cellulose-a-comparison

 

Tech specs:

Appearance: very fine white powder.

Wear a mask while working with dry powder.

CAS 18917-91-4

MOLECULAR FORMULA : C9-H15-Al-O9

MOLECULAR WEIGHT: 294.22

HS code:  2918199090

 


 

 

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