New to coloring bar soap, looking for help

[Chaiat5]

A soap I made using the Bastile soap recipe by @AliOop (minus the goat mik powder). The olive oil was infused with paprika and it was a lovely vermillion red. I was almost sorry to use it Once mixed and soaped, it mellowed to this peachy colour.

 

[Ekuzo]

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A soap I made using the Bastile soap recipe by @AliOop (minus the goat mik powder). The olive oil was infused with paprika and it was a lovely vermillion red. I was almost sorry to use it Once mixed and soaped, it mellowed to this peachy colour.

Love the color, hope it stays that way! Too bad I'm lazy to make infusions, I dump the paprika right with the oils

 

[Vicki C]

These soaps are both made with plant colorants - the red is from Himalayan rhubarb with a madder root infusion in the lye water.

 

[Ekuzo]

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These soaps are both made with plant colorants - the red is from Himalayan rhubarb with a madder root infusion in the lye water.

How did you make the cubes?

 

[Becky1024]

This is my first attempt using Himalayan Rhubarb Root from Anne George's. The color in person is more cherry red than in the picture. I measured 2.5 teaspoons of rhubarb into 250 g olive oil in a mason jar. Put the mason jar in a crockpot on high for several hours. Then let it sit at room temperature in a cupboard for a week or so. Not too happy with the swirls - I was going for more of a layered look - but the red is awesome!

FYI ... if you use Himalayan Rhubarb Root you will want to gel the soap. I also made some samples in individual molds that did not gel, and they are a pale pink.

 

[justsomeguy]

May I ask where you sources your rhubarb?

I'm not the person you asked, but I got mine here

 

[MomInWA]

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These soaps are both made with plant colorants - the red is from Himalayan rhubarb with a madder root infusion in the lye water. @curlycoat2 has two (or three?) excellent books on using plant colorants.

@Vicki C Okay, WOW!! My jaw dropped so hard it hit the floor! Wow wow wow, these are amazing!

 

[Vicki C]

How did you make the cubes?

They were made with extruded diamond shapes and little chevron shapes - and then pieced together - the diamonds came with the extruder, the chevron I cut out of a plastic cutting board. The tiny cubes were made by putting three colors at a time through an extruder with a small hexagon. It’s sort of hard to describe all of this…

@Vicki C Okay, WOW!! My jaw dropped so hard it hit the floor! Wow wow wow, these are amazing!

Thank you!

 

[akseattle]

@Vicki C - wowzie! I had to google to find out what an "extruder" is. Then I watched a couple videos on using soap dough in extruders.
I Dream in Soap had a really nice tutorial. When I see an amazing design I always say I'm going to try to copy it.
But, seriously, even with your explanation of how you did it, it couldn't even begin ... thanks for sharing!!! and great colors, too!

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A soap I made using the Bastile soap recipe by @AliOop (minus the goat mik powder). The olive oil was infused with paprika and it was a lovely vermillion red. I was almost sorry to use it Once mixed and soaped, it mellowed to this peachy colour.

@Chaiat5 That's a really pretty peach color. Nice work!

 

[Julynn324]

I'm not the person you asked, but I got mine here

Thank you for taking the time to answer- I'll check that out.

 

[MomInWA]

@ackosel Lisa from I Dream In Soap uses extruders a lot in her YouTube videos. I just love her videos!

I Dream in Soap extruder video

 

[Humblegoat]

Red is the hardest of all the colors to achieve when using plants only. Are you adverse to using clays? if not that will be an easier way going forward. The rhubarbs will be the best way to get red - any of them - Turkish or Himalyan it wont matter which one you use. The more concentrated your infusion is the better the red will be. You will need to have only very light colored oils and I had more success without palm when coloring with plants. I dont use palm at all but every experiment I did with it morphed the plant color more than without it. Long, strong, cold infusion using the alcohol method and then using a high percentage of that infusion in your actual soap recipe will give you red. I will warn you that plant colors will fade and clays will not. Also note the redder the soap the more it will bleed pink - just so know and are not surprised when you lather with it. This is my red with plants only using the above techniques. yes it does lather pink but its red and from plants only! Took me years and years to get this color and no there is no photoshop going on or enhancing or editing. iPhone 5

Truly beautiful colors!!

 

[melinda48]

Red is the hardest of all the colors to achieve when using plants only. Are you adverse to using clays? if not that will be an easier way going forward. The rhubarbs will be the best way to get red - any of them - Turkish or Himalyan it wont matter which one you use. The more concentrated your infusion is the better the red will be. You will need to have only very light colored oils and I had more success without palm when coloring with plants. I dont use palm at all but every experiment I did with it morphed the plant color more than without it. Long, strong, cold infusion using the alcohol method and then using a high percentage of that infusion in your actual soap recipe will give you red. I will warn you that plant colors will fade and clays will not. Also note the redder the soap the more it will bleed pink - just so know and are not surprised when you lather with it. This is my red with plants only using the above techniques. yes it does lather pink but its red and from plants only! Took me years and years to get this color and no there is no photoshop going on or enhancing or editing. iPhone 5

Impressive indeed!