@DebFiel3 I recently tried Todd Ziegler’s vanilla color stabilizer in a batch of Dragons Blood soap. It works!
Without ZVCS:
With ZVCS:
I used Trial by Fire red (NS) in both batches, but not at a strong enough ratio to get a full-blown red, hence the pinkish color. In the ZVCS bars, I did not swirl the gold glitter, which I like. The smell in the cured ZVCS bars is a true Dragons Blood with none of the questionable notes of the color stabilizer when it is first added. FYI per Todd’s suggestion, I did not use the full amount of the stabilizer. It’s possible that the color might have been a little brighter without it, but I’m not sure.
This is good information for me to have for fragrances that tint soap brown or beige. I want to try ZVCS with a coconut fragrance next. Future Dragon’s Blood soap will, however, be allowed to age to its glorious Brown shade and incorporate the gold glitter swirl. This is the year of the wood dragon, so my DB soaps are perfect in there unstabilized state.![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
Hope this information and the pics help!
Without ZVCS:
![IMG_5184.jpeg IMG_5184.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/soapmakingforum/data/attach/74/74788-IMG-5184.jpeg)
With ZVCS:
![IMG_5808.jpeg IMG_5808.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/soapmakingforum/data/attach/74/74790-IMG-5808.jpeg)
I used Trial by Fire red (NS) in both batches, but not at a strong enough ratio to get a full-blown red, hence the pinkish color. In the ZVCS bars, I did not swirl the gold glitter, which I like. The smell in the cured ZVCS bars is a true Dragons Blood with none of the questionable notes of the color stabilizer when it is first added. FYI per Todd’s suggestion, I did not use the full amount of the stabilizer. It’s possible that the color might have been a little brighter without it, but I’m not sure.
This is good information for me to have for fragrances that tint soap brown or beige. I want to try ZVCS with a coconut fragrance next. Future Dragon’s Blood soap will, however, be allowed to age to its glorious Brown shade and incorporate the gold glitter swirl. This is the year of the wood dragon, so my DB soaps are perfect in there unstabilized state.
![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
Hope this information and the pics help!