[soapcraft] Re: Colour

  • From: "Jan Abernethy" <janabernethy@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:05:57 +1200

Hi Ross
Blue & Red powdered soap dye - from Source Living.
Jan

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From: soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of galahad
Sent: Monday, 19 July 2010 3:57 p.m.
To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [soapcraft] Re: Colour


Hi Jan

What colours were you using?

Ross

----- Original Message Follows -----
> Hi everyone
> 
> OMG - I made my (only) 3rd soap batch yesterday.  I added
> some red soap dye and a little bit of blue, to get a
> purple, mixed it with some oil, and it looked purple,
> really dark purple in fact.  Not really what I wanted but
> oh well, that was that, because I thought well that's a
> nice purple albeit dark!
> 
> But this morning I'm looking at the soap and its faded
> quite a lot, but you can see the red and blue dots
> underneath the soap as if it wasn't mixed in, but it was
> completely mixed in the oil.   So could someone help me
> and explain what I did wrong in the colour area.  I mixed
> it with the soil first, then mixed it into the soap at a
> light trace and blended it in.  Looked mixed.
> 
> All three of my batches that I've done, the colours have
> not been right. Helps if I use the right stuff but this
> time I have and it's spotty.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> Got my soap swap all wrapped and ready to go, what a
> relief, I hope it's ok, it was only my second try, so
> don't be too harsh.
> 
> Jan
> 
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