I want to experiment with adding colors to my soaps.
I first bought indigo leaves powder and was very disappointed to discover only after buying that it was not the kind that can be used straight to color soaps (I still have to try @AliOop 's suggestion to add salt to make the blue pigments...
Today's experiment was to see how different herbal colorants work when you make a tea from them and then use the tea for your water for the lye solution.
Today, I used Madder Root. It's suggested that you can add this herb (also Indigo) to lye solution and then filter it out, so I figured if...
I'm going to try a madder root soap this evening using an infusion I made a few weeks ago. I was just wondering what % of infused oil people would suggest? I dont want it too red, a nice pink would be great.
I've found a 25% soap while researching but would appreciate any advice +/- pics...