Soap colorants

Adding color is one of my favorite parts of the soapmaking process. Color in soap can convey different places, scents, themes or moods. If you prefer to keep your soap as natural as possible, there are a wide variety of colorant options. Various clays, herbs, botanicals and powders can give soap surprisingly vibrant hues. If …

NOTE: In this article, you’ll find out how to color your soap using only natural ingredients! These include things like herbs and plants, clays, and even some textures. Get creative with your natural, handmade soap! When I first began making soap, I was just concerned about the soap lathering, mo

Adding color to soap is easy, fun, and can be done completely organically with herbs, clays, and even ingredients you have in your kitchen. Make artisan soap.

dowel about 1/2 inch into the top of the soap. Beginning in the top left-hand corner, make a figure eight pattern through the soap, working your way across the mold.

Creating your own soap is one of many satisfying (and potentially money-making) activities you can engage in while homebound during quarantine time. Customize homemade soaps by adding fragrance, dried flowers, or color to them. But how do you add your preferred hues? To add color to homemade soap, use skin-safe liquid dye or colored blocks...

In this tutorial I’ll take you step-by-step through how to infuse your soap making oil with natural colorants. This method is easy and works well for most natural colorants when coloring your handmade cold process soap. Infusing oil helps to prevent the grainy or speckled look you may get when you add spice or herb powders to traced soap! We’ll go over both the cold infusion and heat infusion processes. Click through to the blog for the instructions! Happy soaping!

Natural Vegan and palm-oil free simple cold process soap recipe colored naturally with Himalayan rhubarb root extract. Final color is a vibrant raspberry to deep magenta. Technical information: 1lb / 454g batch -- 5% superfat -- 35.7% water discount.

Although I identify myself as resourceful, I never believed I was a true member of the Do-It-Yourselfer Club. Making my own toothpaste? Concocting a face mask I could eat? I’ll pass. That is, until I ran out of my favorite lotion one exceptionally cold morning and was left with a spare jar of coconut oil stored away in a kitchen cabinet. After a quick Google search followed by a messy ten minutes, I realized that my skin felt way more moisturized and softer than when I resorted to my…

Learn how much turmeric powder to add to your cold process soap recipe. The tests also demonstrate how to make and use a turmeric oil infusion.

List of natural soap colourants. Learn what to use to colour your soap naturally with herbs, clays, oil infusions and more.