Natural Coloured Soaps

Create your own naturally coloured soaps using vibrant natural ingredients like paprika, spirulina, and green clay. 

DIY Natural Coloured Cold-Process Soap Recipes

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: 

Here's the process with Chelsea & Megan's Video Tutorial
Cold process soapmaking video

Here's the process with step by step instructions and photos
Cold process soapmaking in pictures

You'll need some cold press soapmaking equipment
Cold process soapmaking equipment

Want to resize this recipe to fit your mould size? If you want to adjust the batch size, or tweak this recipe using a similar carrier oil, jump on Go Native's
Soap Making Calculator where you can use it to calculate the amount of sodium hydroxide and water needed to make your soap from one or more oils. It's super handy, it's free and it's and easy to use

 
paprika 2T in grapeseed-694
spirulina and poppy seed-822
This bar was coloured with 2T spirulina powder. I infused it with Grape seed Oil as explained above. I threw in 20g of poppy seeds just before I poured.
CP soap with 30g green clay-733
This bar was made with 2T of Green Clay The clay wasn't infused, but stirred in the soap mixture just before trace.
CP with rapeseed oil-450
This bar is made with Rapeseed Oil to show how you can get a very pretty yellow soap with no added colour.