Colored with food colors

[Obsidian]

Made these yesterday using FD & C colorants. The pink is red #33 and the orange is red #40. Gelled to bring out the bright color.

 

[LittleCrazyWolf]

Gorgeous, I love those wispy swirls!

 

[not_ally]

Really lovely.

 

[dixiedragon]

Lovely!

 

[kumudini]

Are those soaps? Lol. Gorgeous. I immedietly thought of my close friends daughters. May be I can make such beautiful soaps one day for them. Really nice swirls.

 

[not_ally]

Obsidian, do you care about bleeding? I have never used FDC's, but do use BB Labcolors, which bleed. I don't care so much because I don't sell them, but it would be really great to get such beautiful, bright, easily used colors without the bleeding, at least sometimes.

 

[Obsidian]

Depends on what kind of bleeding you mean. I dislike colored lather unless its barely noticeable, however, I don't mind colors that migrate or bleed into the surrounding colors. I don't sell either but even if I did, I wouldn't mind migrating colors as long as I knew it would happen and planned the swirls to look ok with it.
This was a itps at heavy trace, turned out a lot better then I thought it would.

 

[not_ally]

I was talking about the colors which start to migrate into the surrounding ones in the soap, which happens w/LabColors. As I said, I don't mind it, and oftentimes it is pretty. But I do wish I could that combo of deep, bright color *and* crisp lines sometimes. I would be happy with that swirl any day.

 

[shunt2011]

Those are gorgeous!!!

 

[CTAnton]

Jeez....I am blown away by the talent in this group! Kudos!!!!

 

[Obsidian]

Thanks, I'm really happy with them I've only used one of these colors before and it did bleed a little but not much. This batch was actually a test to see how bad the migration is. I should have used a bit less color and made more defined swirls but I sure do like the wisps swirls.
I have some neon pigment powders that make nice vibrant colors that don't bleed but you need quite a lot. With the food dyes, you need such a tiny amount that is can be hard to control. I didn't make them that bright on purpose lol.

 

[doriettefarm]

Super impressed that you achieved the wispy swirls at thick trace, rock on!

 

[Sonya-m]

Oh my those are awesome!!! Love the bright colours and beautiful wispy swirls!!

 

[Saponista]

Those are lovely, I always find it really difficult to get such fine wispy swirls. The colour vibrancy is lovely too.

 

[snappyllama]

Those are fantastic!

 

[Cactuslily]

Wow! Absolutely stunning! Your white is so bright! I'm having trouble with that one.do the FD&C colorants accelerate trace?

 

[Obsidian]

I used a lot of TD, I wanted a nice bright white. DO you use TD? I generally use 1 tsp PPO but doubled this time. The FD & C didn't affect trace at all, I soaped too warm and went a bit crazy with the SB.

 

[newbie]

I like!!! Great colors and the pattern is beautiful.

 

[topofmurrayhill]

Nice. Those are some vivid colors and intense swirls. Is the soap very white?