Blue Power Mega Blue Laundry Soap

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There are three ways to use woad to naturally color soap blue. No matter which method you try, begin with a soap recipe that doesn’t include a lot of yellow or golden oils. The reason being is golden oils naturally create cream to pale yellow colored bars. This warm color will interact with woad, giving you green bars in the end — it’s like mixing blue paint with yellow. So avoid extra virgin olive oil and other dark oils and butters and use recipes that include coconut oil, shea butter, and light-colored liquid oils such as olive oil pomace. Color: Green. Usage: Replace the water called for in the lye solution with the juice. Alternatively, you could infuse fresh clippings in distilled water, strain, cool, and use in the same way.

Color: Light to deep yellow. Usage: Add 1/4-1 tsp powder PPO mixed in a little oil at trace. Be aware that it can add an exfoliating/scratchy texture. You can also infuse liquid oil with the powder and use the oil as part of your soap recipe. Color: Yellow to pinky-orange to deep orange. Usage: For yellow, add as a small part of your solid oils at 1-10% of the total recipe. Ensure that you’re using sustainable palm oil. I have a question about Red Sandalwood. I used some in a soap but my testers said it was too scratchy. I tried to make an infusion, however the soap came out more maroon. Any ideas why? And have you ever used an infusion? Any advice on how to make the red sandalwood less harsh? Color: Natural green. Usage: I’ve read that you can infuse dried leaves in liquid oils, but I’ve not used this one before.Color: Pale lavender to deep purple. Usage: Though you can add dried and ground alkanet root directly to soap recipes, this tends to result in a gritty texture and dull color. It’s better to make an alkanet-infused carrier oil using around 3 TBSP dried roots per pint (454 g) of liquid oil and then use the strained oil in the soap recipe. Learn more about using alkanet root for deep purples in this lavender soap recipe. I have found that lightly scented waters don’t really hold up once the lye is made. Things like aloe juice and rose water are overcome by the chemical reaction taking place. You would probably get better results from putting peel shreds into your soap at heavy trace. There’s nothing quite like growing a plant, nurturing it through its life, then finally using it in the kitchen or creative pursuit. A full circle of growing, harvesting, making, and finally using that has as much to do with the plate as with the soap draining dish. As you can guess, my main interest, aside from kitchen gardening, is making natural handmade soap. Blending raw ingredients like oils, dried herbs, and plant-essences to make beautiful bars using deliberate, skin-safe ingredients.

Color: Peach to light orange to orange-brown Usage: The best way is to infuse paprika in liquid oils, strain, and discard the actual spice, or your soap may be scratchy. Adding the spice directly will also result in less vibrant hues. New Pears soap with mint extract is enriched with the goodness of nature. The gentle formulation is enhanced with spearmint extracts and menthol, known to provide effective cleansing with a cooling and soothing sensation. Color: Dried flower powder can be added to melt-and-pour soap for a soft pink. Color does not survive CP/HP soapmaking.Not only is it a better alternative for the environment. It smells good unlike other harsh chemicals and IT WORKS. Very well I might add. Pink is quite an easy color to achieve with natural ingredients, and any of the ingredients used for purple and red can also produce pink. Of the colorants listed below, you can get one of the loveliest botanical pinks from madder root. You can either infuse the larger pieces into a light oil before soaping or add powdered madder to your soap at trace. Gelling (insulating) your soap after it’s molded will intensify the pink. Ingredient Would you consider butterfly pea powder (Clitoria ternatea ) for a blue coloration? It’s often used for tea and apparently very good for hair, blond hair for some reason, and the colour blue is just so rich and beautiful? Very Rich antioxidant also. I can’t find woad at all in Canada unless I grow them myself .. and I will coming summer.. but in the mid time, I ran into that and wondering if you knew about it and your though on this. Madder root can be used in different ways for different shades of pink soap. Naturally Color Handmade Soap Adding honey to your lye solution can give a natural golden brown color. Natural Brown Soap Colorants

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Color: dusky pink.Usage: simmer the cochineal in water and use it to replace some or all of the water called for in the soap recipe. Please note that this is not a vegetarian or vegan ingredient. Cochineal soap recipe

Infuse with oils: add the dried material to oils that are liquid at room temperature. Either allow them to infuse for two to four weeks or heat gently until the natural color has been released into the oils. More on how to make infused oils. Color: Pale to buttery yellow. Usage: Create a pureed infusion with the fresh flowers like you would for the daffodil soap recipe above. Use it as the water ingredient for your lye solution, or stir it in at trace. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to get a true red when using natural soap colors. Most plant-based colorants will be closer to deep pink, reddish-brown, and mauve, with the exception possibly being Himalayan rhubarb. It’s more of a vibrant pink-red in my experience, though some soapmakers have reported getting a scarlet red with it. Ingredient The tins and bottles are a lot sturdier than I would have thought. Very well put together for long lasting use” Color: Bright Green. Usage: Add the peels as a puree at a light trace. Cucumber soap is initially green but usually fades to a muted yellow. You could use cucumber in soap along with green clay for color, as in this cucumber soap recipe.Mr H. – I had to look that one up but know exactly which plant you mean – It's mainly referred to here as Mahonia and is used in herbal medicine. It's effective in the treatment of skin conditions such as acne and even psoriasis…very cool that it also can be used as a dye! Thank you for this post Tanya it was very interesting. Looking at the photo of Woad, I'm almost certain there is lots of that growing wild a hundred yards from my gate. I shall have to investigate. Color: Pale to dark yellow. Usage: add 1/2-1 tsp finely grated lemon peel, either fresh or dry, after trace.