Recent content by CreativeNikki

Thanks, everyone. I did have madder root so I used that along with the soap queen guidelines. Right now it looks brown, but we will see what happens as it cures. If it looks awful then I'll just use the soap myself.

Also, if using madder root, how would you use it? Will it make the soap gritty the way alkanet root does? I'm making a 5 pounds recipe.

Thank you. Have you tried madder root? I may actually have some; I bought a variety pack of natural colorants from soap making resource so I have a bunch of different stuff. If it doesn't work I'm going to go with something that isn't natural. I don't need a bright red color or anything, but...

I am trying to find a natural way to make pink/red soap. I tried alkanet root twice and both times ended up with black soap. I want to try something else. Hopefully something natural that I can get locally. I'm hoping to make a peppermint soap to thank the ER doctors that helped me last...