Solid colors

[Todd Ziegler]

I have been thinking about doing some single, solid color soaps. I want to do all the primary colors and then do a dark and lighter shade of each primary color. I was also going to try and match the colors with a FO.

How many of you have done anything like this or like doing just solid colored soap?

 

[goat soap rulz!]

I like solid soaps, I appreciate the simplicity. If you want to do a purple, you can maybe do a lavender or lilac! If you want to do a green it could be lime, or my FAVORITE from nurture soap, Linden lime blossom! It is a really beautiful smell, and it smells exactly like the lime blossoms on our tree!

Yellow could be lemon, or pineapple, or energy, I believe from either nurture or BB.

Red could be dragons blood. Maybe if there is a red poppy smell somewhere you could do that!

Blue. Maybe a beachy or fresh smell. For the light blue, you could do a clean laundry, although I don't recommend the nurture clean laundry. I used it yesterday, and my mom likes it, but it smells too much like candy to me.

 

[shunt2011]

I started with mostly single colored soaps. Sadly since I’ve been selling they are generally not good sellers. Fragrance and swirls seem to be key for me.

 

[TheGecko]

How many of you have done anything like this or like doing just solid colored soap?

I like the simplicity of single colored soaps, but they don't sell as well as a two color swirl. I think it's because folks feel that if they are paying $5.00 or more for a bar of soap, they should be getting more bang for their buck.

On the other hand, my GMS is uncolored and that seems to be okay.

ETA: My Trades Soap does well as a solid-colored soap.

 

[Todd Ziegler]

I like the simplicity of single colored soaps, but they don't sell as well as a two color swirl. I think it's because folks feel that if they are paying $5.00 or more for a bar of soap, they should be getting more bang for their buck.

On the other hand, my GMS is uncolored and that seems to be okay.

I wondered the same thing about how well they would sell.

 

[Anstarx]

Usually when I do facial bars I like to go for a solid color design because I like to use luxury oil for those and you can't go wrong with a solid color. However, I always make sure there's something else aside from its color. Two things I do: molds with interesting shapes and unique soap stamps.
There's nothing wrong with a bar of solid color soap but when it goes to business I think people like to see something fancy. I don't sell soap (yet) but I take videos of my soaping process and post them online (not on youtube) Two of my most popular videos are of solid colors. One is a burgundy colored wine soap where I used a beveled ice cube mold. The shape is pretty unique. Another one is my waxberry soap which is just a plain caramel-colored puck shape from a PVC mold but I designed a berry stamp to go with it and people really like that, messaging me asking if I intend to sell those because they want to try.
I held a give-away event a while ago when I hit 8k subscribers asking people to vote for 2 of their fav soap designs. My fancy linear swirl and drop swirl ones were sparsely mentioned as the top fav being a super simply 2 layer blue and white salt bar, followed by my solid green neem soap (w/ custom stamp) and solid pink himalayan brine soap (cylinder shape and pink salt on top for decor).

 

[mishmish]

I make a tallow/lard/coconut/olive oil soap for a farmers market vendor neighbor to sell, using her animals' tallow. She sells meat and eggs, but the soap provides a value added item and is very popular. My own soap is vegetarian, blends, swirled, layered, etc, so for her I do plain solid colors and more single note or two-note soaps. Lemongrass = yellow, peppermint = green, rose = pink, orange vanilla = brown, eucalyptus rosemary = blue, etc. I keep the colors at about the same intensity: light, pretty. Mostly essential oils but occasional fo's. I find them very relaxing to make and she sells them quickly.

 

[SeaSuds]

Most of my soaps are single colour because I prefer them to look 'wholesome' and 'natural'. If I were to buy a fancy soap, I would keep it for my guest bathroom so it would hardly ever get used. I want people to use my soaps as an every day item rather than a special treat and come back for more.