Carrot soap

[penelopejane]

I have made my own carrot powder (closer to carrot granules!).
I want to colour my soap. I can do this by adding purée but I am aiming for a colour of higher intensity.
I have seen a natural soap that says it uses carrot oil:
https://allnaturalsoap.co.uk/shop/bars/citrus-sunshine/#product-meta

I soaked the powder in oil and nothing has happened - will heating it infuse the oil with colour?
I have reconstituted some of the powder - can I put that in the oil and infuse it or will the moisture kill the oil?

 

[cmzaha]

I make carrot oil by cooking shredded carrots in Sunflower Ho until the carrots turn dark brown but not burnt. It makes a beautiful carrot orange sunflower ho oil, that I love using in lotions and soaps. But I find in soap it still helps the color if I use baby carrot puree along with the carrot oil

 

[penelopejane]

Thank you Cmzaha.
Do you heat the oil and carrot over a double boiler?
Do you strain off the carrot once it has done cooking or does that go into the soap too?

 

[SaltedFig]

For your already dried carrots, grinding the carrot granules in a ceramic mortar and pestle with a slight bit of moisture (oil or water), would both reduce the particle size and increase the colour vibrancy of the dried carrot. I would go oil, just for the slip, but wax would also work (jojoba doesn't bind up like some of the harder waxes). Honey might work nicely too.

 

[cmzaha]

Thank you Cmzaha.
Do you heat the oil and carrot over a double boiler?
Do you strain off the carrot once it has done cooking or does that go into the soap too?

Originally the info came from Zany, and this link has the directions I use which is Zany's method in post #6
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/carrot-tissue-oil-and-payapa-soap.52481/#post-497831