I think the fading is why I'm excited. This is darker than I want it to stay. If I can go darker to start, maybe they'll fade to what I want them to be? I've only ever used Madder Root stirred in or infused WITH Alkanet Root.
Today's experiment was to see how different herbal colorants work when you make a tea from them and then use the tea for your water for the lye solution.
Today, I used Madder Root. It's suggested that you can add this herb (also Indigo) to lye solution and then filter it out, so I figured if...