I've used paprika infused olive as a percentage of my total olive oil and made shades of peach to orange depending on the concentration. The only problem is the orange fades out to white over time for me. Natural colorants do crazy things. Below are pictures of a soap I made when experimenting with natural colors. For this soap I used cocoa powder, turmeric in olive oil infusion, and sweet paprika in olive oil infusion.
First pic is the day of the cut, second pic is 3 days later, and third pic is 1 year later. They were kept in a shoe box in a cool dark cabinet from the time they cured. Unfortunately, out of sight, out of mind because I totally forgot they were under there for nearly a year.
Update: Oops! I just looked at my notes from when this was made and that wasn't cocoa powder, it was charcoal because I panicked when both the turmeric and paprika portions turned a blazing shade Halloween orange, so I split off a portion of both and added a bit of charcoal.... and that portion turned brown! Like I said before, natural colorants do crazy things.
