[soapcraft] Re: Colour

  • From: galahad <galahad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:12:58 +1200

Hmmm....not familiar with them.  I hate colour spotting

I like to use the lakes from Aromatics and More, especially
for the reds and pinks.  D&C40 is a good true red


----- Original Message Follows -----
> Hi Ross
> Blue & Red powdered soap dye - from Source Living.
> Jan
> 
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> [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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