Natural colours cold-process soap

Create your own naturally coloured soaps using vibrant natural ingredients like paprika, spirulina, and green clay. Each soap offers unique benefits: the paprika soap provides a warm hue, the spirulina soap is packed with nutrients, and the green clay soap gently detoxifies.
 

Paprika For this loaf, I used 2T paprika and stirred it into the grapeseed portion of the recipe. I left it for two days, stirring occasionally. (This is called paprika-infused oil, so don't get foxed by fancy terms.) When I wanted to make the soap, I poured the oil off the grains of paprika as I didn't want them in the soap. This is your choice though. I used grapeseed oil because it is very clear. I didn't want the red of the paprika to have to compete with the green of olive oil or the yellow of rapeseed oil. The recipe: It fits nicely in our loaf mould. 230g grapeseed oil 230g organic palm oil 230g RBD coconut oil 230g water 104g sodium hydroxide 2T paprika powder 30g palmarosa essential oil Method: See our Cold-process soapmaking with pictures HERE and our how-to video HERE

This bar was coloured with 2T spirulina powder. I infused it with grapeseed oil as explained above. I threw in 20g of poppy seeds just before I poured.

This bar was made with 2T of green clay. The clay wasn't infused, but stirred in the soap mixture just before trace.

This bar is made with rapeseed oil, not grapeseed oil, to show you how you can get a very pretty yellow soap with no added colour.

 

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