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 > > -----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. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------