Learn how much turmeric powder to add to your cold process soap recipe. The tests also demonstrate how to make and use a turmeric oil infusion.

Soaps using natural colorants are free of artificial dyes. The colors produced are typically more earthy. Perfect foe those looking to use less artificial ingrediants on their skin.

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…

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 …

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

Use this woad soap recipe to make natural blue soap with specks of darker blue throughout. Woad is a traditional dye plant.

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

dowel about 1/2 inch into the top of the soap. Beginning in the top left-hand corner, make a figure eight pattern through the soap, working your way across the mold.

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.

List of natural soap colourants. Learn what to use to colour your soap naturally with herbs, clays, oil infusions and more.