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Washable, Non-staining Stage Blood by the Gallonby RavingMadStudios on November 12, 2009

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Washable, Non-staining Stage Blood by the Gallon ....................................................................................

Intro: Washable, Non-staining Stage Blood by the Gallon .............................................................................

Step 1: Gather Your Ingredients and Tools .......................................................................................

Step 2: Make the detergent base ...............................................................................................

Step 3: Nuke the Peanut Butter ................................................................................................

Step 4: Add the Peanut Butter to the Detergent Base ................................................................................

Step 5: Make it Red .........................................................................................................

Step 6: Make it Bloody ......................................................................................................

Step 7: Feeling the Strain ....................................................................................................

Step 8: Let It Bleed .........................................................................................................

Step 9: Precautions .........................................................................................................

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Author:RavingMadStudios

Jack of all trades, master of a couple. Eclectic interests combined with a short attention span make me just knowledgeable enough to be really dangerous.

Intro: Washable, Non-staining Stage Blood by the GallonFor our recent stage production of The Revenger's Tragedy, Ineeded to come up with an economical and effective way to make several gallons of realistic stage blooNormally, Iwould have used one of the many corn syrup based recipes that have been popular for decades, but the Technical Director wanted to avoid sugary recipesdue to the risk of attracting ants and other nasty creatures into the theatre.In addition, the costume designer needed to be able to wash the blood completely out of the costumes between performances, the set designer wanted to preventstaining the set, and (since there was a possibility of splashing the audience) we needed to be able to assure audience members that their clothes would not be ruine

This pretty much meant no red food coloring could be in the recipe either.Furthermore, the blood would have to be visible on both light and dark surfaces and work in several different delivery devices, including air cannons, pneumatic squibsqueeze bulbs, blood bags and a trick knife. (For a truly excellent pneumatic squib, see Crosius' phenomenal Instructible here:http://www.instructables.com/id/Pneumatic-Squib-Tutorial/)After experimenting with several formulas Icame up with this one, which met all of the needs listed above very well, and only costs about $13.00 a gallon. Compared some commercial blood at $60.00 a gallon or more, this is quite a bargain. If you need buckets of blood for any reason, give this a try.

Image Notes1. The color on my camera is a bit off. It doesn't look nearly as much like ketchup in real life

Step 1:Gather Your Ingredients and ToolsFor this recipe, you will need:

Ingredients:Four 28 oz. bottles of orange or red ultra-concentrated dish detergent (the red frequently contains bleach - do not use any detergent with bleach)One small bottle of ultra-concentrated Dawn dish detergent (blue)1.5 cups of creamy sugar-free peanut butter (regular will also work)One 16 oz. bottle of washable red poster paintBlue washable poster paintBlack washable poster paintSugar-free chocolate syrup

Tools:Large pot or mixing bowlGallon-sized jug or pitcherSpoonStrainer or cheeseclothFunnel
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Microwave oven

Image Notes1. Not sugar-free, but it should be. This is a demo batch, and I was out of sugar-free peanut butter.2. Different paints have different properties, so check your paint (especially the red) for washability. Really really cheap washable paints are sometimes lesswashable than good-quality regular paints.

Step 2:Make the detergent basePour all four bottles of orange detergent into a large bowl or pot. Add 8 oz. of blue Dawn. Mix well. The blue detergent helps to tone down the orange color. When don

mixing, you should have a big bowl of caramel colored goo.

Image Notes1. No heating is required, I 'm just using a stockpot because it's the largestcontainer I could find.

Step 3:Nuke the Peanut ButterPut 1.5 cups of peanut butter into a microwave-safe container and heat for 45 seconds at 30% power. You may need to adjust this based upon your microwave's powYou want to warm the peanut butter up, not melt it. This makes the peanut butter easier to mix in the next step.


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Image Notes1. Notice that the PB is on a paper plate. The first time I did this, I just put the jar in the microwave, but I forgot about the remnants of the foil seal around the jar lip.The sparks were very pretty.

Step 4:Add the Peanut Butter to the Detergent BaseStir the peanut butter into the detergent mixture. This will take a while. To avoid whipping air into the detergent and making a big bowl of foam, use a spoon, not a whior an electric mixer. Keep mixing until you have a semi-smooth beige-ish glop. Some of the peanut butter will not combine, which is OK. We'll be straining out theundissolved peanut butter in a later step. Just try to get it as smooth as possible. The peanut butter adds opacity to the mixture and gives the red paint in the next stepsomething to bind to.

Image Notes1. Lots more stirring will be required.

Step 5:Make it RedDump in approximately 13 oz. of the red poster paint and stir until the color is evenly distributed. Make sure this is well-mixed, as the next step is to adjust the color tolook more like real blood than the bright red paint.


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Image Notes1. This lovely shade of puke brown is what the previous step should produce.

Step 6:Make it BloodyAdd blue and black poster paint and sugar-free chocolate syrup to adjust the color of the mixture. The exact amounts will depend on the look you want, but 2 oz. of eais a good place to start. Mix well, then add more as needed.If the blood is too red, add a little more blue, or a little more Dawn, if you prefer. If it needs to be darker, add more black. If it lacks a certain undefinable "richness", add

more chocolate syrup.When adjusting the color, go in small increments to avoid overcorrecting, mixing well at each increment. If you do overcorrect, try adding some of the remaining red paleft over from the previous step. If you have seriously overcorrected, you may be able to salvage the mixture by adding another bottle or two of orange detergent andmore red paint. Otherwise, you'll have to scrap the whole thing and start over.

Image Notes1. Too red, add blue.

Image Notes1. Too light, add black.

Step 7:Feeling the StrainWhen you have gotten to a blood color you like, strain the blood into a gallon-sized container for storage, using a wide-mesh strainer or cheesecloth to remove thechunks of undissolved peanut butter. The mixture is very thick, so strain small amounts at a time. You will probably need to stop about halfway through to clean thestrainer or replace the cheesecloth.


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Image Notes1. For illustration purposes only. Do not balance the strainer on top of a funnel.Messes will ensue.

Image Notes1. The opacity added by the peanut butter helps the blood show up even on darksurfaces. Most commercial stage blood doesn't read well against black.

Image Notes1. Mmmm... tasty-looking, isn't it?

Step 8:Let It BleedThe blood is now ready to use.As I mentioned in the intro, this formula has been successfully used in a large variety of effect devices, including air cannons, pneumatic squibs, squeeze bulbs w/ tubblood bags and a trick blood-squirting knife. I had some initial reservations about foaming, especially in the air cannons, but testing showed that my reservations wereunfounded.For all these applications, we used the formula without diluting it. If you need a higher flow, the blood can be cut with water, but be careful not to use too much. Excessdilution will cause the blood to tend to bubble and foam when ejected through the delivery device, and will probably require additional paint to maintain the correct colo


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ozawatest says: Mar 15, 2011. 3:00 PM REPAny thoughts on having lots of blood in a swimming pool (someone falls into a pool after being shot like crazy) without damaging the pool? The blood doesneed to last long. Thanks!

blodefood says: Mar 3, 2011. 6:20 PM REPObviously because of the detergent content you would not be able to use this blood coming from the mouth. For that I suppose you would have to go back

the corn syrup recipe.

By the way, peanut butter is an ant attractant for some species of ants. I take it there would be enough detergent content to keep them away.

corkie11 says: Oct 30, 2010. 9:44 AM REPwhy is the blood light coloured?

RavingMadStudios says: Oct 30, 2010. 11:19 AM REPThe color balance of my camera is a bit off. It was darker in real life.

corkie11 says: Nov 5, 2010. 4:40 PM REPoh ok... then this is a pretty great recipe

yespotato says: Oct 18, 2010. 5:22 PM REPwhat if someone in the audience is allergic to peanuts??????? might want to think about befor u use it next. lawsuits could ensue.

RavingMadStudios says: Oct 19, 2010. 7:24 PM REPYup. That's listed in the warning section of the Instructable, and lobby signs were posted.

yespotato says: Oct 20, 2010. 6:03 PM REPok good cuz i have a couple of fr iends that cant even smell peanuts. let alone touch it

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featherwurm says: Oct 14, 2010. 10:36 AM REPOh where oh where was this tutorial when I had to produce so very much washable blood for Seven Crimes? I managed with a couple different mixtures(mostly detergent based), but this is by far superior (though so far as color went for us, the director had a thing for using red light on all bloody scenes whicmeant the blood usually needed to be deeply purple to show up, but that's not really an ordinary concern). This is great though, it seems like it really wouldcreate a nice visual mess without being a mess to clean up.

In other words, thank you. You are fantastic for posting this and I know I'll be using it in the future.

Is there any chance you could add a photo or photos from the production so we can see your handiwork in action?

RavingMadStudios says: Oct 14, 2010. 12:04 PM REPThanks for the kind comments. Always nice to hear from a fellow wetworker. ;-)

Red light for all the blood scenes? That's a new one on me, although I have been known to strongarm a lighting designer or two in the name of goodblood visibility. Usually for me, the lighting was more green than I'd like, which made the blood look l ike chocolate syrup. In this production, the l ightingwas never an issue, for which I am grateful.

Oddly enough, I was unable to be at the photo call for Revenger's, and so they didn't take any shots with blood, probably because of the cleanup issueI had known, I would have taken my own photos at final dress, but it didn't even cross my mind until it was too late. That is a mistake that I won't bemaking again....

featherwurm says: Oct 14, 2010. 2:03 PM REPTo be fair the red l ight did look cool in that context, but it nearly 100% washed out blood-colored blood. This was about as light a color as it could gohttp://www.featherwurmgraphics.com/Theater%20%28Costume,%20Puppets,%20etc%29/Seven%20Crimes%20%28Add%20More%29/Razor.htmas you can see in the more regular light in the last couple photos it's really pretty purple.

Aw dang that sucks, and I know the feeling, but there's always the next one... there's always a need for blood!
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M4industries says: Jul 22, 2010. 7:57 AM REPTo make the thumbnail more interesting, make the blood arterial and dark. This is to be more anatomically correct.

RavingMadStudios says: Jul 22, 2010. 12:00 PM REPWe chose to go with a more "cinematic" look for this production, as opposed to purely realistic. The blood wasn't as ketchupy as the photo makes it loothough.

M4industries says: Jul 22, 2010. 1:46 PM REPAt least make a latex wound, it just looks like a spill. But I still like your method.

Valeil says: Oct 7, 2010. 3:04 PM REPMaybe it was vomited?

romanceblood says: Aug 18, 2010. 9:27 PM REPdidnt know i'd find this on here, but btw i stil l have blood splatters (yes stained) into my khaki cargo pants from when I saw RT at GSU.

RavingMadStudios says: Aug 19, 2010. 4:36 AM REPSorry about your pants. I haven't heard of any other cases where this blood left a stain behind, including the wedding dresses we used in the show. Veodd. Swing by the Theatre cookout this Fr iday afternoon, and I'll buy you a cheeseburger by way of apology.

keithwarburg says: Jul 23, 2010. 6:51 AM REPOH, very much enjoyed it. See you around.

keithwarburg says: Jul 22, 2010. 10:01 AM REPOur campus did a production of tRT in october, and it was incredible bloody. I left with small amounts of this stuff on my face, hands, and everywhere else range of a headshot. :)

RavingMadStudios says: Jul 22, 2010. 11:36 AM REPHey, that's when ours was. You don't live in Georgia, do you?

keithwarburg says: Jul 22, 2010. 6:44 PM REPI do! It was at Georgia Southern.

RavingMadStudios says: Jul 23, 2010. 5:02 AM REPThat's the one. Glad to know there are other Instructables folks here in town. You make the fourth one I know of (counting me), andRedHandFilms has graduated and left, so he doesn't count anymore.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the show,

abbyholverson says: Jul 21, 2010. 8:25 PM REPAwesome... great instructable. (And really, any show where the there is so much blood that the audience gets sprayed = best thing ever) I know I've madesimilar blood with liquid laundry detergent... never thought of the peanut butter, though, that's great.

RavingMadStudios says: Jul 22, 2010. 6:43 AM REPThanks very much! I've been playing with blood recipes for (mumble mumble) years now, and I'm pretty pleased with this one. I'm not sure where theidea for the peanut butter originated (probably an edible formula), but it does really help a lot with visibility and consistency.

yoyology says: Jul 21, 2010. 2:46 PM REPI can't resist a theatrical quote: "Were more of the blood, love, and rhetoric school. [] I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do youblood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I cant do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood iscompulsory theyre all blood, you see." Great instructable. Makes me want to see the show!

RavingMadStudios says: Jul 21, 2010. 7:48 PM REPHee hee hee. Thanks very much! Gotta love Stoppard.
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moo of the cow says: Nov 25, 2009. 11:12 PM REPhow long will the blood last? will it go rancid????

RavingMadStudios says: Nov 26, 2009. 5:00 AM REPHonestly, I have no idea. We ran through it pretty fast, so it didn't really sit around long enough to tell. I'm sure that the peanut butter will eventuallygorancid, but your guess is as good as mine as to how long that would take (weeks or months is my guess, fyi).I did discover that if you refrigerate the blood, it gets really super-viscous and separates a little, but a few hours of thaw time at room tempand a shaketwo fixes it right up. If you don't mind having to warm the blood up before using it, this would probably extend your shelf life.

Prof. Yummy says: Feb 3, 2010. 9:27 AM REPIf you happen to have any laying around, you can add a little methyl paraben to help keep it from going bad.

RavingMadStudios says: Feb 3, 2010. 3:40 PM REPGood to know. I'll try that next time I have a show that demands a large quantity of blood.

cowscankill says: Nov 13, 2009. 5:55 PM REPBut what happens if water is sprayed on the blood? Won't it foam?Still, it's really good. Maybe instead of soap, use water and some kind of cheap thickener, like flour? Hmm... Much pondering to do...

RavingMadStudios says: Nov 13, 2009. 9:25 PM REPIt won't foam up unless it is agitated somehow (or the water spray is very strong), but it will get even more slippery. Flour makes a good thickener, asdoes corn starch, but the test batches Iran with flour and cornstarch were much more likely to stain, so we decided that he soap was the lesser of theevils. That said, if staining is not a big issue, cornstarch or flour would make a very good, much less slippery, and less irritating to the eyes blood recipe
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