Hi Ross Blue & Red powdered soap dye - from Source Living. Jan -----Original Message----- 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------- > > This list is sponsored by http://www.soapcraft.co.nz - > supplier of raw ingredients. > > To unsubscribe from this list go to > //www.freelists.org/list/soapcraft/ enter your email > address and choose unsubscribe. Or you can send an email > to soapcraft-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the > subject line. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- This list is sponsored by http://www.soapcraft.co.nz - supplier of raw ingredients. To unsubscribe from this list go to //www.freelists.org/list/soapcraft/ enter your email address and choose unsubscribe. Or you can send an email to soapcraft-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by http://www.soapcraft.co.nz - supplier of raw ingredients. To unsubscribe from this list go to //www.freelists.org/list/soapcraft/ enter your email address and choose unsubscribe. Or you can send an email to soapcraft-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the subject line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------