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It has long been accepted that the colors on your walls can influence your mood, but can your mood change the color of your walls? In the same way mood rings change color with temperature, thermochromic paint is heat-activated. Stocking these specialty products will set your operation apart and give your customers something to be excited about.
Solar Color Dust’s Liquid Crystal® (12 Color) – Concentrate Sprayable Version, Mood Paint™ changes colors between 60 F and 90 F. The heat-activated “mood ring” effect results in shades of black, brown, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, yellow, green blue and purple. This specialty material can be used on a variety of different projects and can be used in a high-powered airbrush for a smoother finish.
Atlanta Chemical Engineering LLC offers a variety of thermo color-changing paints that can be applied to paper, wood, metal and plastic surfaces. They come with different activation temperatures and are water-based and nontoxic. The company also sells thermochromic powder pigments, which can be added to acrylic paint and used on walls.
