Palette of natural soap colorants - pic heavy

[MsBien]

F-a-b-u-l-o-u-s, thank you!

 

[heartsong]

x

thanks a bunch!

ver nice job and very helpful! love the rosehips!

for a very nice "dial soap" gold www.fromnaturewithlove.com carried calendula extract. a little goes a long way! 1/8-1/4 tsp ppo gave you light to medium gold. i would think powdered calendula petals would give you about the same thing, just would have to use more ppo.

thanks again!

monet

 

[ewenique]

Wow, thanks for posting the photo results of your experiment.

 

[scrapgabbie]

l LOVE the carrot one, l haven't used carrot juice yet, l hate cleaning the juicer but am going to have to give in soon and do it LOL.

With paprika for colouring...l'm curious, isn't parika 'hot' like chilli? Wouldn't it be an irritant in soap? l love the idea of colouring with it, but have been too scared to try it and am really interested to know if it has any effect on skin being in soap?

ps. not sure if it is just an aussie thing, we have normal paprika and hot paprika here, obviously l wouldn't be using the 'hot' one in soap, but even the mild one gets complaints from my kids if l use it in cooking!

 

[surf girl]

As far as I know, all of the paprika here is dried up and powdered red pepper (red capsicum, like the green capsicum), not hot pepper (whatever the various hot, red little peppers are that are like chili peppers). If you put it on your tongue, it is not hot. So no, it's not hot in soap.

 

[GrumpyOldWoman]

Wow thanks for sharing your results with us!!
I favs are the spirulina & stevia samples.

I read that some herbs and spices are not smelly when dry. But can be pretty strong when you get them wet. I hear spirulina smells fishy when wet

 

[rubato456]

1000 thanks

this was fabulous, detailed and divine!

 

[surf girl]

I read that some herbs and spices are not smelly when dry. But can be pretty strong when you get them wet. I hear spirulina smells fishy when wet

One of the first soaps I made was a soap whose only added scent was imparted by infusing the olive oil (80% of the oil weight) with cedar "leaves". I coloured about 1 cup (roughly 8 oz) of the soap with around 1/2 tsp spirulina (for a 2-lb batch) - totaling therefore around 1/4 tsp per pound soap. It has no fishy smell when wet. I don't know what the smell would be like with the higher concentration of spirulina... I will suds up some of the spirulina test bar and let you know!

FWIW, the only additives I have noticed in the above array of soaps, when I have used them in other full batches (spirulina, stevia, paprika, 5X, dock, carrot) are the 5X (obviously) and, in combination with buttermilk, the carrot (nice nutty smell). I have not noticed any scent with carrot alone.

I soaped some red and green pepper purees the other day, and the soaps have a distinctly red-peppery and green-peppery smell. I suspect they will fade substantially over time.

 

[Dixie]

Thanks for sharing your hard work!

 

[IanT]

well i can sum this thread up in just one word ......

AWESOME!!

great idea to do a palette! I love the research-type feel to it 8) nice job!

 

[GrumpyOldWoman]

I read that some herbs and spices are not smelly when dry. But can be pretty strong when you get them wet. I hear spirulina smells fishy when wet

One of the first soaps I made was a soap whose only added scent was imparted by infusing the olive oil (80% of the oil weight) with cedar "leaves". I coloured about 1 cup (roughly 8 oz) of the soap with around 1/2 tsp spirulina (for a 2-lb batch) - totaling therefore around 1/4 tsp per pound soap. It has no fishy smell when wet. I don't know what the smell would be like with the higher concentration of spirulina... I will suds up some of the spirulina test bar and let you know!

Thanks

 

[surf girl]

Your post reminded me to suds up the soap - I just did. I can report that neither the spirulina alone nor the spirulina-carrot had a fishy smell.

As an aside, the carrot one had nicer lather than the canola oil alone.

 

[GrumpyOldWoman]

Your post reminded me to suds up the soap - I just did. I can report that neither the spirulina alone nor the spirulina-carrot had a fishy smell.

As an aside, the carrot one had nicer lather than the canola oil alone.

Thanks for the update
I'm glad to hear that! As those colors are very pretty

 

[bombus]

Great idea! lots of work!

I have a question about your procedure-
did you put your additives in the oils, in the lye mixture, or at trace?

 

[surf girl]

I put the additives in separate plastic cups (or ceramic ramekins for batch #2), and poured the traced soap into each cup, then mixed.

Actually, for batch #2, I think I mixed each additive with a tiny bit of olive oil in each ramekin, then poured the traced soap into the ramekins.

 

[knicelyr]

Surf Girl,
These are absolutely outstanding!!!

I may borrow some of these ideas

 

[tincanac]

I like speckles in soap!

I'm a speckler - this is a Cranberry Bran speckle experiment though it was in MP soap - I loved the way it looked!

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This is how it looks when light is shone through it:


SPECKLES rule and I am so glad you posted this experiment - I am going to try and speckle some MP with the stuff you experimented with!

 

[chrisnkelley]

Oh, that is too awesome! What a neat thing to try!!

 

[xraygrl]

As an aside, the carrot one had nicer lather than the canola oil alone.

I'm guessing that's because of the natural sugar in the carrot.

TFS, cool experiment!

 

[studioalamode]

Wow, this was a neat experiment. Thanks for sharing with all of us! I'm thinking I'm partial to the ones with the carrot juice...but I love red-orange anything. They are all beautiful though.