Black rice soap

[rainycityjen]

I was inspired by some "forbidden" black rice I found in the grain bins at my local Whole Paycheck this week. I know I'm not the first person to make black rice soap, but I couldn't find any recipes for it. So we'll see how it goes.

My idea is to soak the black rice, to leach the color into the water I will use for lye. Check. I let rice soak for 2 hrs and water came out a dark, dark purple. Then I ran the rice-water through a Brita filter to remove any starchy floaters.

Right now I'm going to freeze and dry the rice so I can grind it into a fine powder for an exfoliant. Hopefully it gets dry enough to grind, but if not I'll just use ground black poppy or black oxide and colloidal oatmeal.

Then I've got a plan for a recipe with shea and rice bran oil. Double rice!

I'll let you know how it goes. I'm hoping for a nice black color like this:

 

[RiverRose]

Would love to know how this turned out!! What a great idea.

 

[seven]

this is so interesting. love to try this out myself!

 

[jules92207]

Ohhh that sounds really cool, I can't wait too see how it turns out!

 

[neeners]

how cool! you can also add activated charcoal to get more black colour if you need it.....

 

[LunaSkye]

I'd love to see the results of your black rice soap. I also made a soap using a rice product (brown rice flour), a 5.5oz tester. I hope we both have success with our endeavors.

 

[rainycityjen]

Here's the result:

The main body color is from 3-4 tablespoons of rice flour. I was able to grind the soaked rice to a fine powder in a coffee grinder, after drying via freezing and baking. The powder looked dark brown-gray; the ricewater which was added to lye went from dark purple-grey to Coca-Cola brown.

It traced a little fast for a mostly soft-oil recipe. I think this was due to the stearic acid and maybe the new FO. It was creepily ready to unmold about 10 hours after pour.

The white and black oxide are there because I tried to do my first dandelion zebra swirl. Well, that swirl is a soup sandwich. I did manage to get a bonus white drop swirl in some of the bars.

Fragrance: Wild West from fragranceoil on Etsy (cologne-like scent)
Oils: Rice bran, coconut, RSPO palm, apricot, castor, 2 tbsp stearic acid

 

[KristaY]

Well, that's just lovely, isn't it?! Excellent job. I'm going to have to pay more attention to the odd ingredients found in interesting shops. Way to go!

 

[jules92207]

Nice looking soap!!!

 

[Carty812]

Very nice looking bar of soap. I love soap made with food things. Don't know why but I am never brave enough to try anything more adventurous than salt, milk, honey, and sugar lol. Fantastic job!