Where has all the color gone?

So I was having a conversation with Melba the other night... we were talking about how she is going to make her daughter a costume for Halloween.  I asked how she was going to make a certain part of it and she said with fabric.  I was thinking it needed to be poofy or something... and BAM it came to me... colored cotton balls!

Melba had no idea what I was talking about.  Do you remember colored cotton balls?  Colored Kleenex or tissue?  What about colored toilet paper?

Where the heck has the color gone?  It's all only white now!!! Seriously... think about it.  Apparently the dye that was used to color the above items was sensitive to some users and thus it's no longer being used.  Crazy huh!