Whiting Powder - Blanc de Meudon

Whiting Powder is a very versatile material with many traditional and modern uses. Also known as "White of Spain", "white of chalk", "Calcium Carbonate" or "Blanc de Meudon". It is a chalk, inorganic natural filler for paints and crafts and often used in woodworking and cleaning purposes.

Calcium carbonate is one of the most abundant minerals on Earth and accounts for about 4% of the Earth’s crust. It can be found in nature in three principal rock types: chalk, limestone, and marble. Natural, very fine ground calcium carbonate with an intermediate and closely sized particle distribution.

It has many uses! 

Decorative paints and coating 

It is used in traditional artistic painting, lime painting, coating and plaster. 

Decorative Paints, Industrial Coatings , Plasters, Renders and Joint Fillers

Whiting Powder is used as a pigment filler to increase the coverage of paints, coating and whitewash.

It is also used with rabbit skin glue for making traditional Gesso

And it is used with water for designs on glass. It's the one that adorns the windows of stores and houses at Christmas time, 

Plugging holes 
It can also be used as a filler for beams, wooden surfaces and plasterboard.

Polishing and cleaning silver and metals

All objects made of stainless steel, copper, brass, copper, stone polishing  pewter, earthenware or glass benefit from a second life with the application of whiting powder.  Even metal joinery is easy to clean with it.

Cleaning a wide range of surfaces

For maintaining glass surfaces such as mirrors, to effectively remove dirt while preserving the shine of marble to revive its luster

Filler for glue

 It is used as a filler with glue, in engraving to wipe off excess ink or as a filler in the manufacture of papers. 

How to use for cleaning