Natural colorants for soap

NOTE: In this article, you’ll find out how to color your soap using only natural ingredients! These include things like herbs and plants, clays, and even some textures. Get creative with your natural, handmade soap! When I first began making soap, I was just concerned about the soap lathering, mo

Adding color is one of my favorite parts of the soapmaking process. Color in soap can convey different places, scents, themes or moods. If you prefer to keep your soap as natural as possible, there are a wide variety of colorant options. Various clays, herbs, botanicals and powders can give soap surprisingly vibrant hues. If …

Ready to learn how to color soap naturally? Handmade soap is so much more fun when you add some color. But using natural soap coloring is so much better than chemicals and dyes.

Although I identify myself as resourceful, I never believed I was a true member of the Do-It-Yourselfer Club. Making my own toothpaste? Concocting a face mask I could eat? I’ll pass. That is, until I ran out of my favorite lotion one exceptionally cold morning and was left with a spare jar of coconut oil stored away in a kitchen cabinet. After a quick Google search followed by a messy ten minutes, I realized that my skin felt way more moisturized and softer than when I resorted to my…

I wanted to see what natural powders would do to color my soap, these are my results.

I was boxing up some soap to donate and ran across some naturally colored soaps. I decided to take a quick picture to share. These soaps were made adding the herb/spice/clay to trace. The photo was taken after 6 months so you can see that some (nettle) have faded.

Soap making for beginners covering the benefits of making some at home, the difference between cold process and hot process, which process is better, and an all natural colorant guide. #soapmaking #soap #naturalcolorant

In this tutorial I’ll take you step-by-step through how to color your handmade soap naturally wiht herb and spice infused oils! This method is easy and works very well for most natural colorants when coloring your handmade cold process soap. Infusing oil helps to prevent the grainy or speckled look you may get when you add spice or herb powders to traced soap! We’ll go over both the cold infusion and heat infusion processes. Click through to the blog for the instructions! Happy soaping!

Learn how easy it is to make pencil lines to add visual interest to your handmade cold process soaps. Also includes 12 natural colorant options to experiment with!