[soapcraft] Re: Colouring
- From: Louise Shing <louiseshing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:24:22 +1200
Welcome Annette, nice to hear from you, you've got a wealth of experience in
soaping. Look forward to chatting with you in the future.
Louise
on 27/7/10 11:56 PM, John & Annette at tupalms@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi everyone, My name is Annette, I live in Brisbane and have been soaping
> for about 10 yrs +. I soap just for the enjoyment of it, not for business or
> anything. I just made a herbal and a Lemon Myrtle soap today. I usually
> have regular oils I like to soap (Olive, Coconut, Shea, & Ricebran) but have
> run out of shea so I made these two batches with Olive, Coconut & Beeswax,
> sort of a Castile type soaps. w/- the herbal one I added Brambleberry
> fragrance called Sweetgrass, mixed with abit of pimento, bay, juniperberry,
> cabrueva, hydachieum essential oils and a touch of blackpepper fragrance.
> Don't ask me about the Cabrueva & Hydachieum, I think they were freebies
> with an order once. Anyway it all smells very fresh with a hint of spice.
> the Olive oil I used was green so I didn't have to change much with the
> colour so just added some green clay. the soap is very hard already, I cant
> wait to try it. I always like to add some dried lemon myrtle leaves to my
> L.M soaps as I think it adds a nice look as well as holding the fragrance.
>
> For Pauline, I have tried colouring with herbs, clays, oxides, mica's and
> liquid colours over the years, and I would personally say that its better if
> you experiment. It depends on the soap you are making and what you want it
> to look like re: Natural, bright, modern,fresh etc. Personally I like the
> feel that the clays give to the soap, oxides depending on the quality can
> sometimes not dissolve completely, could be just me too! liquids are easy to
> work with. At the moment I am into the more natural looking soap. Also not
> sure if I read that right but if you don't want to have a brown coffee
> coloured soap then you can add some titanium dioxide to dye it whitish. Well
> that's been my soap pot for today. Cheers Annette:-)
>
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>> Hi All - new subscriber here *waves*
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>> There's many ways to colour soap Pauline, none are really 'best' .. I like
>> clay, mica, & oxides myself .. I've never used the liquid dyes but know
>> many
>> people who do and are very happy with the results ..
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