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Adding Color To Your Homemade Soap With Soap Colorants

There are many variants for soap colorants

There are many variants for soap colorants – Photo courtesy of Flickr user necrocake.

Do you want to learn how to make soap at home?

There are many different ways you can make soap and sometimes you want to have colored soaps for more variety. Soap colorants give your homemade soap a unique look and there are numerous ways you can color soap.

Most soap colorant in the soaps you buy in the store is made with synthetic dyes and other chemicals. This article focuses more on natural dyes for your homemade soap, but for our full, comprehensive guide to soap colorants please click here. Continue reading “Adding Color To Your Homemade Soap With Soap Colorants”

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Soap Making Made Easy eBook: Version 2 release and last minute discount

Hi everyone,

A quick update from the Soap Making Made Easy team on our eBook Soap Making Made Easy by Michelle Gaboya.

“Soap Making Made Easy” has been very well received by people interested in making soap at home, and we have had some very positive feedback. However we want to keep improving and ultimately make it an even better resource for you!

We are working hard on producing “Soap Making Made Easy: Second Edition” by Michelle Gaboya which will include:
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Which Soap Making Colorants Do You Choose?

There are many variants for soap colorants

There are many variants for soap colorants – Photo courtesy of Flickr user necrocake.

Soap Making Colorants—which one to choose?

There are several different soap colorant options that are available for soap makers.

Natural soap colorants are more favored by expert soap makers as it is much safer to use. You can get amazing results with natural dyes and you don’t need to go the synthetic route to get soap that people buy. The best soap making advice I can give you is to try the natural dyes and see how things turn out. Of course you’ll need some practice but this is part of the learning process when you make your own soap.

For example, saffron can give your soap a yellowish glow, indigo root can be used to give your soap a deep blue color and Moroccan red clay can be used to give your soap a brick red color.

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Lye Soap Making

This article briefly explains the properties of lye and the importance for lye as part of the soap making process. Please click here to read our full, comprehensive article on soap making with lye, including a free basic soap recipe, or to learn more about homemade soap download our free soap making guide.

You may have asked this before, what exactly is lye?

Lye is a caustic alkaline chemical that dissolves substances like fat, and has a high degree of reactivity with other materials.

It is also known as Sodium Hydroxide.

If you know about soap or have been making soap, you would know that almost all handmade soaps are made of Sodium hydroxide except for a few liquid soaps that are made of Potassium hydroxide.  Potassium hydroxide, unknown to many, is also a type of lye used to make liquid soap.

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