Madder Root Infusion Soap

[kazmi]

I posted these on the Natural colorants thread but thought I'd post here just in case someone was looking for a way to get a good red soap. This soap is made from a 30% infusion (30% of my oils were infused with madder root for a few weeks). Half of the batter I added a very diluted red labcolor at trace. The other half was not colored with anything. I also gelled the soap since I read that this will help obtain a deeper color.

 

[thefarmerdaughter]

Very nice!

 

[lsg]

I love the color.

 

[savonierre]

That turned out very very pretty.

 

[kazmi]

Thanks everyone! Once I bevel them and get the ash off they should look better.

 

[Soapman Ryan]

I posted these on the Natural colorants thread but thought I'd post here just in case someone was looking for a way to get a good red soap. This soap is made from a 30% infusion (30% of my oils were infused with madder root for a few weeks). Half of the batter I added a very diluted red labcolor at trace. The other half was not colored with anything. I also gelled the soap since I read that this will help obtain a deeper color.

Beautiful soap!
When I used madder root, all I got was pink.
How much madder root did you use?

 

[kazmi]

Thanks Ryan! I made an infusion at a rate of 2 T of madder root powder to 1 C of OO. Then I used that infused oil as 30% of my total oils.

Here's a good tutorial that I learned from: http://www.soap-making-resource.com/madder-root-soap-making.html