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So this is my Midnight Leather Soap. I was shooting for a hard black soap, and ended up with this marbling. I don't hate the marbling, but I need some ideas on why this happened. Recipe: Babassu: 5% Castor: 10% Coconut: 26% Olive: 29% Palm: 30% Used the Daystar Saddle Soap FO, which I think...

So I've tried alkanet as a colorant and annatto seeds. Both worked very well. I was wondering if anyone has tried mixing natural colorants. For instance, mixing madder and indigo, do you think you would you get a purple or a gray mess? Has anyone tried mixing any of the natural colors?

I'm currently interested in natural soap colorants and learning how to use them. To this point I've been using internet sources and the brief mentions in the soap books I have to begin experimentation. BB has an e-book about coloring soap naturally; however if I have to pay $30 for a pdf I may...

I've seen a wide range of curing times for cold process soap, anywhere from three weeks to 8 weeks and beyond. What influences the length of cure, percentage of superfatting? type of oils used? How long do you cure your soap?

I'm planning my second batch. I liked doing the natural color infusion into the oils on my first batch, and would like to do that again. However, on this batch the oils that are liquid at room temperature are fairly equally divided between avocado (15%), olive (10%), castor (10%) and apricot...

Hello, all! I'm new to this forum and this is my first cold process soap batch. I'm intrigued with the idea of natural soap coloring with infused oils, so I decided to start with an alkanet infusion, looking for a nice lavender color. Things seemed to go along pretty well. I regret that I was...