Fotosintesis
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Hello everyone,
Have been reading the forum for answers for some time (very valuable info btw!), but had never participated. I decided to ask as it is my first time working with colorants in CP soap.
I am trying to make Creeper and Slime soaps (minecraft based). I made a very basic soap (34% olive oil, 33% coconut oil, 33% palm oil, 5% superfat).
First try: I used micas (Gwen green) and, although the soap was nice, I wanted a more matte tone. I assumed maybe all micas give this shiny, pearly tones, so I decided to try with liquid colorants.
Second try: I tried liquid colorants with the same soap recipe, but this time I made a smaller batch of 70 grams (maybe too small though). I noticed this time, I had to add quite an amount of colorant and when I stirred after, the color was fading into a brown color
I was thinking this type of colorant might not be good for soap making, and maybe it's getting burnt and mixed with the yellow color of the olive oil?
Another experiments I want to try:
Thanks everyone!
Have been reading the forum for answers for some time (very valuable info btw!), but had never participated. I decided to ask as it is my first time working with colorants in CP soap.
I am trying to make Creeper and Slime soaps (minecraft based). I made a very basic soap (34% olive oil, 33% coconut oil, 33% palm oil, 5% superfat).
First try: I used micas (Gwen green) and, although the soap was nice, I wanted a more matte tone. I assumed maybe all micas give this shiny, pearly tones, so I decided to try with liquid colorants.
![20240315_134055.jpg 20240315_134055.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/soapmakingforum/data/attach/73/73642-20240315-134055.jpg)
Second try: I tried liquid colorants with the same soap recipe, but this time I made a smaller batch of 70 grams (maybe too small though). I noticed this time, I had to add quite an amount of colorant and when I stirred after, the color was fading into a brown color
![Loudly crying face :sob: 😭](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png)
![20240315_134016.jpg 20240315_134016.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/soapmakingforum/data/attach/73/73643-20240315-134016.jpg)
Another experiments I want to try:
- Decrease amount of olive oil, or substitute by a lighter oil. Then the resulting soap will be lighter and the color won't get mixed?
- Try another colors of micas, maybe there are more matte tones?
- Surrender to MP soap... Tried same colorants with transparent MP soap. Didn't notice any color change with MP soap, although it might because the temperature is definitely higher when the soap is forming.
![20240315_144712.jpg 20240315_144712.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/soapmakingforum/data/attach/73/73644-20240315-144712.jpg)
Thanks everyone!