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Voyageur offers a wide range of so you can make your soap the perfect color.
Herbs & Spices:
When using herbs and spices to color your soap, the color of the ingredient will not necessarily create the same color in your finished soap. The saponifcation process can make herbs and spices change color, and flower petals will tend to brown.The intensity and darkness of the color will also depend on the amount used. Start by adding a tsp of herbs or spices to a bit of water and then adding it to your batch of soap at a light trace.
Here are some commonly used botanicals in soap making, and the colors they make.
| Botanical Colorant: |
Makes: |
| Beet Root Powder | Earth brownish soap |
| Bladderwrack | Gray-green soap |
| Burdock Root | Warm brown soap |
| Cayenne Pepper | Salmon colored soap |
| Chickweed Herb |
Rich green soap |
| Cinnamon Ground | Caramel to brown speckled |
| Comfrey Leaf |
Sage green soap |
| Curry Powder Madras | Yellow soap |
| Dulse Powder Choice | Green soap |
| Elder Berries | Caramel brown soap |
| Henna Blonde Powder | Light brown soap |
| Henna Black Powder | Green soap |
| Henna Red Powder | Sage green soap |
| Kelp Powder Atlantic | Gray-green soap |
| Neem Leaf |
Textured deep brown soap |
| Nettle Leaf |
Lime green soap |
| Paprika |
Salmon speckled soap |
| Rosehips |
Speckled pink & tan soap |
| Stevia Leaf Powder |
Yellow-green soap |
| Spirulina Powder | Green-yellow soap |
| Turmeric Ground | Peach-orange soap |
| Walnut Hulls |
Yellow & brown speckled soap |
Clays
Clays are a beautiful way to naturally color your soaps while also adding skin care benefits. A rounded tsp. per 4 lb. batch of soap will generally give the soap a nice color.
We add the clay to a tbsp of water to make a slurry first, then add the slurry to the soap at a light trace. Continue to whisk or stick-blend the soap to distribute the clay evenly with no lumps or streaks.
| Clay: |
Makes: |
| Australian Pink Clay | Dusty pink |
| French Red Clay |
Brick red |
| French Yellow Clay |
Mustard yellow |
| French Green Clay |
Light grey-green |
| Bentonite Clay |
Pale grey |
Pigments, Oxides, Ultramarines, Neon Powders & Micas
Commercial colorants such as Ultramarines, Chromium Greens, Iron Oxides, Neon Powders and many of our Micas will give your soaps beautiful colors in varying shades depending on the amount that you add to your batch.
To use these colorants in your soap, simply make a concentrate by mixing together 1 tsp. of colorant with 1 tbsp. water, then add the liquid bit by bit when your soap is at a light trace, continuing to mix until you reach your desired color and trace level.
Voyageur Soap and Candle has spent the past 27 years providing soap crafters and soap manufacturers in the United States and Internationally with the soap oils, soap colorants, soap fragrances and essential oils needed by them to make and market a diverse range of bar soap and liquid soap products. If you have any questions please use our online chat or contact us by email. We are always happy to help.
