You can use red powder food coloring but reduce the quantity of color used if using powder based colors. (sailusfood.com)
On the morning that he died, the local women came to help my wife dress his tiny body and rub red powder into his cheeks. (bookbrowse.com)
Unscrupulous sellers label bags of fresh chile as «Hatch» and bags of red powder as «Chimayó,» and very often, this is false advertising. (fieryfoodscentral.com)