How Do You Use Natural Colorants In Soaps?
Make homemade soaps completely natural by adding natural ingredients for color. There is no need to taint your natural soaps by adding artificial coloring when so many natural options are at your finger tips. Add color in small amounts, such as one teaspoon. Add more coloring to your soap mixture until the desired color is achieved. Make natural shades of purple and blue by adding oil steeped alkanet, indigo root, madder root, poppy seeds and spirulina. Add less of these ingredients to get a lavender or light blue, and more for bold, richer colors. Add kelp, chlorophyll, alfalfa, cucumber, sage or spinach to get lovely green coloring. Gage the brightness of green you will get by the natural coloring of the ingredient added to the soap. Create soapy sunshine by mixing annatto seed, ground calendula petals, ground carrots, ground chamomile, curry powder, ground tumeric or saffron. Achieve colors ranging from creamy yellow to bright gold with these ingredients. Color your soaps pink and r
