Colorant ideas from the market

[Carl]

I'm looking for some ideas on how to color soap with basic things you can get at the supermarket.

For example, I saw somewhere (can't remember where) they used dried out spinach to give the soap a greenish color.

So do you have any other ideas on things I can use to color soap that are available at the local market?

Thanks!!

 

[shunt2011]

Cocoa powder, tumeric or paprika infused oil. Pumpkin purée, baby food carrots.

 

[Obsidian]

I've used loose eye shadow before with decent results. I made sure to get the ones that are mostly mica and oxides.

 

[zanzalawi]

Spirulina is lovely!
Hibiscus or tamarind
I wonder how beet juice or red cabbage juice would do? [emoji848]

 

[Obsidian]

Beet and cabbage turn greeny brown and the cabbage smells really, really bad.

Not sure if hibiscus morphs or not. The only natural pink/red colorants I know of is madder root or rhubarb root.

 

[cmzaha]

Blue 1 food coloring will give a nice lavender to purple. Itis also fun to watch all the color morphing. Spirulina will give a nice bluish green but will fade to tan. Baby peas will give a light green

 

[Magic7M]

Paprika turns a love peachy colour as well, parsley ground into a powder also colours green. I also use comfrey leaves dried and crushed and it gives me a green soap as well. Marigolds, calendula petals and dandelion flowers will colour soap yellow gold. I hope this helps and that I am not repeating something that others have posted here.

 

[Dawni]

I will say first, that it depends on the supermarket? Haha

Here we get these:
cocoa powder to get brown
annatto to get orange
moringa powder to get some sort of green
turmeric to get yellow to orange-ish tones
spirulina to get green
coffee to get brown
wheat grass to get green
curry powder to get orange-y brown
carrot (juice) to get yellow to orange-ish tones
parsley to get green
green tea to get a brownish green
papaya to get yellow to orange tones
avocado to get green

Do a Google search, there's lots of ideas online. You can get a better description to what I've given above, and also how tos, coz some are oil infusions, some purees/juices and some are powders.. Then maybe figure out which of those are available where you are.

Also remember that natural colorants fade over time..

 

[Deadgroovy]

I recently posted some pics using turmuric and paprika infused oils
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/natural-colours-for-my-soap.72010/
I have also just made a batch using parsley dried in the oven, ground to a fine powder and then infused in oil. It's turned out a lovely pale green.
Plus, of course, loads of help and info on here