[soapcraft] Re: Potassium lactate and Gibna's Sky Blue colour
- From: "Liz Brook" <liz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:32:03 +1200
Pleased it worked for you.
Do any of you use oxides for colouring? Or are the FD&C's, micas and
ultramarines the generally used colours?
Can we see pics of the The Library of Babel when you unmould and cut? I want
to see if my vision has been realised!
Liz
----- Original Message -----
From: Ross Spencer
To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:50 PM
Subject: [soapcraft] Potassium lactate and Gibna's Sky Blue colour
Hi all
Liz kindly sent me a little bit of potassium lactate to play with. I tried
some in a batch last night and have just cut it. I love the texture and the
hardness of the soap.
Gina, would you consider stocking this as I can't find it anywhere at the
moment?
The fragrance I soaped was Island Market I used an FD&C orange with a blue
swirl using the sky blue colour from Gina. Unfortunately the orange clumped
and spotted really badly but the sky blue came out a glorious baby blue (i used
a low concentration of colour). I am so happy to have a good blue that doesn't
turn purple. I was a little worried to start with as it initially turned a
puce green. I will try and get a pic up in Facebook in the weekend.
I am not so sure about the scent after soaping it. But will have to wait to
see what it is like when finally cured.
The raspberry red colour has quite a purple red tone to it so I will still
need to stock up on the FD&C 40 for vibrant true red. I used the Amberwood
colour swirled through natural in my soaping of The Library of Babel. The soap
is still a little soft so I will leave in the mould a bit longer before cutting.
Ross
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