Wendy90292
Well-Known Member
Hello all,
I'm sort of intermediate as a soaper, don't do it commercially. However, I'm dogged by this issue: my friends and family have asked me to STOP using black as a colorant in all my soaps, because it smudges on their skins and weeps all over their bathrooms.
I've tried charcoal AND I've tried black oxide AND (some other kind of black colorant from Ann Marie). I tried a 1 T:1 t ratio with oil, same ratio with water, mixing the black colorant right into the soap, and deducting oil (pre-lye) from the soap to use as the oil:colorant mix. No matter what I do, my soap streaks humans with black!
What am I doing wrong, please? It looks so pretty! I followed Ann Marie's "clover swirl" 100% according to the recipe (several times now, with different kinds of black) and it STILL messes it up, just like black does in every other recipe (Taiwan swirl, bottle pour, etc.) that I've tried. I even tried a Dragon pour to see if it was a method instead of an ingregient thing! Help! Help!
I'm sort of intermediate as a soaper, don't do it commercially. However, I'm dogged by this issue: my friends and family have asked me to STOP using black as a colorant in all my soaps, because it smudges on their skins and weeps all over their bathrooms.
I've tried charcoal AND I've tried black oxide AND (some other kind of black colorant from Ann Marie). I tried a 1 T:1 t ratio with oil, same ratio with water, mixing the black colorant right into the soap, and deducting oil (pre-lye) from the soap to use as the oil:colorant mix. No matter what I do, my soap streaks humans with black!
What am I doing wrong, please? It looks so pretty! I followed Ann Marie's "clover swirl" 100% according to the recipe (several times now, with different kinds of black) and it STILL messes it up, just like black does in every other recipe (Taiwan swirl, bottle pour, etc.) that I've tried. I even tried a Dragon pour to see if it was a method instead of an ingregient thing! Help! Help!