[soapcraft] Re: Colour
- From: "Jan Abernethy" <janabernethy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:13:30 +1200
Hi Gina
About ½ of the little plastic bottle. The colour is the liquid, I think I
bought the wrong stuff.
My first batch of soap made last week was exactly the same ingredients apart
from the colour. The water is lavender hydrosol from our lavender oil
distillation and was the same as used last week. Caustic soda same,
everything same except the colour.
Do you think it will set?
Regards Jan
From: soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Soapcraft
Sent: Saturday, 19 June 2010 3:57 p.m.
To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [soapcraft] Re: Colour
Now on reading your second post my guess is right.
Yes pigments for soap.
That may have casued the hissing?? Did you wind up adding the whole bottle?
Gina
On 19/06/10 3:08 PM, "Jan Abernethy" <janabernethy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I?ve just looked and touched a bit and it?s really soft, runnyish, not at
all like my previous ?first? batch. I don?t know if it will set, panic,
panic.
The colour I got from Aromatics and More. Water Soluble Liquid Colors - Is
this not suitable for CP soap? I think I bought the wrong stuff - was I
supposed to get Pigments for Soap?
Maybe that?s why is all turned to custard, so to speak.
J
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On Behalf Of Louise Shing
Sent: Saturday, 19 June 2010 2:55 p.m.
To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [soapcraft] Re: Colour
Hi Jan
The colours I use come from Soapcraft and are in powder form I used to just
add about 1/4 teaspoon or less to the batch straight, now, after advice from
Ross and Liz, I put the same amount in a little bit of olive oil and give it
a quick whizz with a coffee frother, then mix with the batch of soap after
trace. Yeah colour is a really hard thing to get right, when I first
started I used a rather heavy hand and had soaps that were full of colour
(in spite of Gina?s advice to go easy with the powder) then next batch put
in too little and no change in colour kept adding and adding and adding and
was (like you) disappointed with the colour, but after unmoulding discovered
quite a pretty colour. Just to let you know that the violet colour is, in
my opinion, very difficult to work with. I?m very fond of the Raspberry Red
colour and Sky Blue (you only need a small amount).
I?m not sure about the rest as I?ve never had froth or hissing when mixing
oils and lye water (but I?m super cautious-type and do everything slowly).
Hopefully others might have an idea. Good luck and let us know how the
colour turns out. By the way one of the best colours I have had came out of
a batch that was creamy-light pink in colour but after unmoulding was a nice
pale pink!!
Cheers
Louise
on 19/6/10 2:35 PM, Jan Abernethy at janabernethy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Louise, Gina and everyone
I made some soap today with Gina?s colour. I put a drop, another drop and
ended up putting more and more because it was hardly making any difference
at all. I was the mauve little container. It didn?t turn out mauve, it?s a
kind of creamy colour. I also think something was not quite right, because
I seemed to have froth when I put the water mixture in with the oils. It is
the same recipe I used last time but I times?d it by 4 to make a bigger
batch as there wasn?t enough last time. It also started hissing a little
like it was reacting.
Any ideas to what I may have done wrong. I was very very careful and
measured everything to the enth degree but something went wrong and I?m so
disappointed about the colour. I was expected mauve. I put it into the
moulds so will be interested to see whether it worked at all. I made it a
lot thinner than my previous ?to thick to pour? time.
Thoughts other soapers for a newbie?
Regards Jan
From: soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Louise Shing
Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2010 10:40 p.m.
To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [soapcraft] Re: photo
Hi Jan
You have to act quickly when mixing soap as soon as you get trace you need
to mix in colour and eos and pour. As a beginner I used to always have a
thick trace as had to make sure had trace before pouring. Now after several
months or so (and lots more confidence) I sometimes get a thin trace and
when I pour with thin trace I get a nice smooth top/pattern.
You?ve used the wrong stuff for colouring cp-soap ? cake decorating gel is
for cakes ? the colour won?t take to cp-soap. I use Gina?s colours which
work well, use only about a pinch but mix well first in a little bit of oil
? they are bright colours. If you?re more inclined to use natural - Liz (on
the list) sells natural colour ? haven?t used yet but I intend to try out
alkanet root soon.
Can?t use soap straight away as it needs to cure for a minimum of 4 weeks ?
shed water, get right PH, etc otherwise might be too harsh on skin.
Cheers
Louise
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