Peacock Dyes

[kittywings]

Up until now I've been fairly resistant to using colors in my soaps, preferring the natural colors... lately, however, I've gotten a hankering for a pretty rose colored soap and I was looking at peacock dyes.

There are reviews from the "Ellen's Essentials" website, but they're all from one person, so I'm curious what you guys think.

So far the only thing I've used to color soap was yellow dock root and I apparently used too much (for the color I wanted), it's now a brick color... but it started out like the Amityville Horror/stigmata soap.

My second batch was better, but I want a more pinky pink vs. mauve-y "too natural" looking. Am I making sense?

 

[LJA]

I've used the santa red (or true red....whatever they call it) with success but thats the only one I've tried. I prefer Labcolors.

 

[kittywings]

Are you able to give a specific reason why you prefer the labcolors?

(lol, I feel like the above question comes across as defensive/accusatory... but I can't think of another way to word it... maybe it's just my guilty conscience)

 

[LJA]

lol. I can but if I told you, I'd have to kill you. :wink:

 

[Guest]

French Clay Pink will give you a pink color.

 

[kittywings]

A pretty pink or a "they must have used something natural" pink. :?

 

[ChrissyB]

You'll get a nice musky, dusky pink with french pink clay, so pink in a natural way.
As opposed to aussie pink clay which will just turn to mud in the bottom of the pot and go brick red. :evil:

 

[kittywings]

You'll get a nice musky, dusky pink with french pink clay, so pink in a natural way.
As opposed to aussie pink clay which will just turn to mud in the bottom of the pot and go brick red. :evil:

OMG!!! ROFL!!! The angry devil face really put me over the top!!! LOL!!

 

[kittywings]

OK, I was so tickled that I forgot what else I was going to say...

Have you guys used ultramarine pink?

 

[SoapMedic]

I have used the peacocks in cp with varying success. I really like the yellow for a lemony color, the blue gets me an aqua, the orange is great. The green is more of an aqua-green. No luck with the purple and the red has been so-so. I used the pink once and got a nice pink but only the one time. On the plus side, I use the pink in my liquid soap that is scented peppermint and it is quite striking in a clear bottle.
I use rose clay for a nice dusky pink. If using it with a fragrance oil that discolors, it makes a rather lovely deep carmine-pink
I also have used the ultramarine pink. Gotta be careful with this and take good notes, because it goes purple-y very easily, but if you use to little it is very washed out-looking. The pink does always have a purple undertone to it. (so I guess you'd call that a 'cool' pink versus the clay which to me makes a 'warm' pink.

 

[Milla]

I just saw this post about peacock dyes. I decided to bite the bullet and \bought the small pack of the 13 dyes. I was so sick of not having many colors. I liked LabColors, but they have so many colors to choose from I got overwhelmed. I just made a salt bar with the deep purple and got a purple pink color, which I loved. It's not a deep purple, but I didn't add enough color.

Slowly, but surely, I will be trying the other colors! I could've gone to Ellen's Essentials and got a smaller sample pack for cheaper, but symphony scents ended up shipping so fast priority mail so I got them in a few days!