green tea soap questions

[apurwa]

Hi All
I made my very first batch of green tea soaps and its looking all brown. Infact if it continues to look this way it will pass for a chocolate / coffee soap. i donno what has gone wrong. here are the steps..

1> made a strong green tea solution in water.
2> let the solution cool.
3> added a pinch of sugar (since i was making only 4 bars)
4> added lye to the cooled solution

till here the solution had a nice dark green shade

Mixed the following oils and added those at 90degrees celsius to the lye

1> olive oil
2>palm oil
3>castor oil
4>sunflower oil

as soon as i added oils the mixture turned brown. it took very long to trace and finally i was so tired that i poured into molds in a semi solid state. i added lemongrass EO to it.

this is how the soaps look

can anyone help me with this?

Apurwa.

 

[cranberrylk]

when I made soap with a green tea liquid- it also turned brown-
now when I make green tea soap- I just open up the tea bag and sprinkle the dry tea into the traced soap and mix it in- get kind of a "herbal" look to the soap with the specks of green tea in it.

I didn't like the look of brown- Green Tea soap either!

jean
www.scenterstage.com

 

[apurwa]

ohh so its a normal reaction. i had started to doubt my oils

when you sprinkle the tea..wont the powder seem funny on the soap?

it wa disappointing to see this brown shade. with this colour how do i convince anyone that its a "green" tea soap ??