Soap turning the wrong color...... newbie!

[Marco Sadun]

Hello People! I am new to soap making ( just few attempts so far ).
I had used a step by step approach!
First attempt with olive oil only soap.
I have used soap calc to prepare che lye, the distilled water, and some essence for the fragrance. that’s it.
The bar came out fine with a yellow-ish color.... that I supposed be normal color.
Then I have prepared a second bar of soap... mixing this time olive oil, almond oil, coster oil and coconuts oil... always using soap calc, I have added fragrance and this time also a ”peach” liquid color... ( cheap set of liquid colors for soap making and food taken online ). The bar came out ”pink”... also in this case I assumed that was ok as I used in the mix a random quantity of colorant.
I have made a new soap bar, mixing orange soap and green soap...
I ad the colorant while mixing for the trace... looks like more I mix the colorant, more the color fade... but looks like like to me that the mixing just accelerate the fading...
However... the end result is that the green has became a light purple... and the orange a peach color...
This is the full story so far...
Should I try to use powder colorant maybe? Or I am missing a full step in the mix that spoil my colouring? Any suggestion?

thanks

Marco

 

[Rsapienza]

Are your colorants meant for CP soap? It sounds like maybe you have colorant for melt n pour soaps which would most likely not be stable in cold process soaps.

 

[Marco Sadun]

By then description looks like... I didn’t buy anything fancy for the time been....

 

[KiwiMoose]

Most of us one here use mica to colour our CP soaps: https://www.soapqueen.eu/c-1381283/sq-mica-pigments/

 

[shunt2011]

You’re using colors not mad for CP soapmaking. They are not high PH stable so morph. You need to get colorant made for CP soap. Micas and oxides work well. Cocoa powder will give you a nice brown.

 

[Marco Sadun]

You’re using colors not mad for CP soapmaking. They are not high PH stable so morph. You need to get colorant made for CP soap. Micas and oxides work well. Cocoa powder will give you a nice brown.

How do I know if the colorant is made for cold process soap making? Because on the colorant that I do have now there is no mention about cold or hot process...

 

[shunt2011]

How do I know if the colorant is made for cold process soap making? Because on the colorant that I do have now there is no mention about cold or hot process...

You may have to search but purchase from a reputable company that has cosmetic safe colorants and mention soap safe at high ph.

 

[Obsidian]

Some places to check are brambleberry, mad micas and tkb trading.

 

[KiwiMoose]

How do I know if the colorant is made for cold process soap making? Because on the colorant that I do have now there is no mention about cold or hot process...

I put a link in my post above^

 

[dixiedragon]

I don't know of any suppliers in Italy. You may have to search case by case.

One option might be icing colorant. Here's an article about FD&C (that's a US thing - Food, Drugs and Cosmetic) in CP soap.
https://inmysoappot.co.nz/2017/04/23/lakes-and-fdc-colours/

I'm thinking you could check out a place that sells baking supplies and check out the icing colorant - it's thicker and much more potent than watery food coloring. Then Google the name of the die and Soap, or CP soap, and see if you can find pictures.