Recent content by Nina F

Of course. Doh! Sorry, I’m new to this

I’ve just made my first batch of seasalt soap and discovered it goes crumbly pretty quickly, so next time I’ll make it individual moulds. As I haven’t used it yet can you tell me what’s so good about salt soap? What’s SF?

I just love those colours!

Hi, this same thing happened to me with the first lot of indigo I bought. Then I discovered that indigo powder for textile dyeing is blue in the packet and stays that way in the soap, unlike indigo intended for use with henna on hair. In fact, it’s a lovely intense indigo blue. Depending on the...

I usually use a supermarket ‘light in colour’ olive oil which is a blend of EVOO and regular OO. Has a lovely feel to the soap and a creamy colour. When using oils likely to tint the batter I add 1tbsp of white kaolin clay powder to neutralise that greenish undertone. Clay powders are also...

High temperatures are the enemy of natural colorants- try blending at lower temperature & preventing gel phase by freezing

I’ve used carrot juice successfully to tint soap, although it fades after a few months. To stop it turning brown through overheating in CP, I chilled in the freezer to prevent the gel phase.