If the potato farmer had painted furniture in the early 1900's, he might have ordered milk paint through the mail.

Its walls are tinted with milk paint, a 99 percent food grade pigment.

With this product, you can add your own powdered pigment to create milk paint in a custom color.

For many years, the only solvent that would dissolve milk paint was ammonia.

Because it could be made easily by do-it-yourself homeowners, milk paint was used extensively in homes built before the Civil War.

One drawback to milk paint is that once it is mixed, it does not store well.

Today, there is a remover made especially for milk paint.

Though milk paint has been used for thousands of years it does not compete commercially with oil paints mostly due to its short shelf life.

This was milk paint, and it was made, as the name implies, with a milk base.

The milk paint must first be mixed with water to make liquid paint.