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IMHO, carrots, turmeric, pumpkin, and paprika infused oil just don't cut red/orange/yellow. Better alternatives are annatto infused oil, red palm oil, mashed tomato. Or the paprika seed oil I coloured my challenge submission with, that comes from Hungary. I also used spirulina; the strong blueish colour (phycocyanin) doesn't survive lye, and it's just like about any other green plant. Anything anthocyanin based (red cabbage, blueberries, elderberry, red wine, purple carrots) will more or less undergo the same fate, unfortunately.


Natural/plant based colourants have been a topic countless times already:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/plants-infused-in-alcohol-added-after-hp-cook.75970/[/URL]

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