I was just about to post a thread asking for advice on getting purple and also a lavender color for swirling with white to make a batch of soap for a friend. I think the question is close enough to keep it in this thread, but if not I will repost elsewhere. I was thinking about trying alkanet, but decided to stick with micas.
Can you recommend an approach that will get me a lavender color with micas from Nuture? They have
Iris purple, which is a bit dark and then there’s Siver
Mist, which looks to be on the light side. Is blending micas an option, e.g. if I have Cheshire Cat and Silver Mist, can I mix some CC into the SM to darken it a bit? The SM pics on the Nuture website are showing some variation in the color produced. The test bar is a shade of purple, but based on the other pics, the purple tones may not always come through in the soap. Would it be better to blend CC with a white mica? At one point I found an older post here on SMF where the maker had used a lowish amount of a Nuture purple mica to oils and ended up with a brown soap. As I recall, Carrie jumped in to suggest that the purple micas should be used at 1 tsp ppo. That’s why I’m thinking that blending micas for a lighter shade might be better than using less ppo. I’ve only made two batches of soap with micas to date, so still very much a mica newbie and have no idea if they can be blended.
