Make homemade nopal painting with these simple steps

Nopal was used by Native Americans for therapeutic purposes, but it has also proven to have incredible thermal properties, making it a good waterproofing agent. The use of nopal as paint for walls and interiors has not been so popular, curiously, although making one of these homemade mixtures is very simple and is an addition that will also protect your home. The natives mixed the nopal with sand to paint their temples, while the Spanish waterproofed the convents with it, mixing it with quicksilver.

How to make a homemade nopal painting?

Ingredients

5 large nopales

2 1/2 kg of salt

2 cups of table salt

Colorant for cement of the desired color

6 liters of water

Utensils

Glass bowl with a capacity of 3 to 4 liters

large colander

Bucket or container with a capacity of 8 liters

Clean 50 cm stick Knife and chopping board Rubber gloves Face mask

Empty paint cans with lids, clean and dry, enough to pack 7 liters of paint (you can recycle jugs and bottles)

Process

  • Cut the nopales into small pieces and put them in the bowl. Add 2 liters of water and let them sit overnight to “drop the slime”.
  • The next day, in the bucket, pour the lime, the salt and the remaining 4 liters of water, stirring the ingredients very well with the wooden stick.
  • Add the nopal slime, previously strained. Stir perfectly until you achieve a uniform mixture.
  • Gradually add coloring; remember that the amount depends on the tone you want to obtain. If you want to get white paint, you don’t need to use the dye.

    • Packaging and Conservation

    Pour the paint into the containers. Do not forget to place a label with the name of the product, the date of preparation and the expiration date

    The painting keeps in good condition for up to a year if it is kept tightly closed, in a dry and dark place.

    If you don’t have buckets with lids, you can store it in a jug.

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