Zany_in_CO
Saponifier
Two things...
1) The technique described above I use in liquid soap and non-soap products. And yes, the color comes through. For example, I have a blend that contains German Chamomile -- it colors the water pale blue to minty green. The water is not cloudy, but clear. Once added to the product, it's so light it doesn't matter, to me at least.
2) Unfortunately, all my transparent soaps were colored. If I were trying to make clear, not cloudy, and no trace of amber color, I think I'd go nuts trying to figure that one out! Because all liquid soaps I've made, for example, have that amber hue to them.
I do admire your persistence in trying to achieve colorless soap. Have you tried, or do you use, stearic acid? That, plus lowering the glycerin and upping the sugar syrup for better clarity might work??? Dunno.
ETA: FYI: Polysorbate is a sugar-based product. Poly-20 with olive oil for non-foaming products; Poly-80 with coconut oil for foaming products. It is sometimes used to make water-based fats, like cocoa butter for example, compatible with liquid soap.
1) The technique described above I use in liquid soap and non-soap products. And yes, the color comes through. For example, I have a blend that contains German Chamomile -- it colors the water pale blue to minty green. The water is not cloudy, but clear. Once added to the product, it's so light it doesn't matter, to me at least.
2) Unfortunately, all my transparent soaps were colored. If I were trying to make clear, not cloudy, and no trace of amber color, I think I'd go nuts trying to figure that one out!
Because all liquid soaps I've made, for example, have that amber hue to them.I do admire your persistence in trying to achieve colorless soap. Have you tried, or do you use, stearic acid? That, plus lowering the glycerin and upping the sugar syrup for better clarity might work??? Dunno.
ETA: FYI: Polysorbate is a sugar-based product. Poly-20 with olive oil for non-foaming products; Poly-80 with coconut oil for foaming products. It is sometimes used to make water-based fats, like cocoa butter for example, compatible with liquid soap.
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