🌿Showing the samples after 3 years was meant to show how each colorant fades.⏳ They were exposed to almost no sunlight during that time.😴🌃 If your soap is exposed to sunlight, for example, at farmer's market, this fading can happen in one day.🌞 Just make sure you know about that. It can be frustrating.🌿🧼🛁 Watch till the end to see the colorant names and how they faded.🎨💕
This is a spectacular video. Thank you for sharing. A few discoveries I've made along the way with natural colors. First, if you infuse in the alkanet root with the oils for several hours, low heat, double boiler, your soap will be a vibrant beautiful purple. Combined with red sandalwood powder, it's even more vibrant and lasts longer. For powders like madder root, if you add them to the lye mixture when it is hot at the initial mixing, you'll get more vibrant colors. If you strain it as you pour the lye into the oils, you will have a pure color without all the little dots. Also, using smaller amounts of charcoal gives light blue colors.
I’ve done the double-boiler infusion with paprika and spinach. They yielded vibrant orange and almost lime green, and didn’t fade (but my soaps get used in about 6 months or so after curing, so they may not be the best examples for fading or not fading).
I was wondering if you could tell me how much alkanet to use and how much oil?. I’m struggling to get a lovely purple and your comment caught my interest. Thanks in anticipation
This has got to be one of the clearest and most concise videos I've ever watched. Your attention to detail is staggering. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. xxx
Wow, this video took 3 years to make! Thank you so much to wait 3 years to show the before-and-after on color fading! Amazing video! It appears that most green botanical colors faded to tan.
Thank you so much for touching on on the water discount. I've been using the soapcalc suggested 38%, and now I understand why my soap takes a few days before I can take it out of the mold, oy! I love natural colourants, the specs make the soaps so interesting
Awesome in depth video, thank you! Being able see the samples years later it super helpful too. I love all the natural earthy tones, just gorgeous! When I tried spinach powder I combined it with nettle powder, they worked great and they still have a tiny twinge green/yellow two years later! I really love using natural colorings, some of them can so hard to find though! I’ve wanted to find blue woad, couldn’t find it anywhere. But, I love my indigo!
Thank you for this video, I got really excited when you showed the faded after pics haha this is the content I've been looking for!! I've had success with fresh tomato paste - its kept its lovely light orange colour but it might be because I made it hp and added after it was cooked.
This was amazing to watch - so educational! Thank you for this and all you do to educate soap-makers. I recently blended indigo and marigold powders in my quest for a lasting natural green colorant. I got green, but it's more grayish than the bright green I was hoping for...
Thank you for this incredible video; seeing the color change over 3 years at the end was the best part. I’m so impressed that the soaps arent covered in DOS after 3 years, even though you used avocado oil (high in polyunsaturated fatty acids), shea butter (high in unsaponifiables), a 7% superfat, and loads of botanical colorants! How did you store them? Did you wrap them up, and does your office stay cool all year round? I live in a hot place and longevity is always a challenge here
I agree, it really is spectacular.For quite a while now I have been looking for info re natural colourants and you have so many.Also, such a really simple way of adding them, as opposed to infusing oil. My soap making is only for my use as a hobby and so having 12 bars of one soap gets a little dull after a while.This technique allows me to make a small batch of say 6 each of a different colour!
That was very interesting. I think some of the pigments like alknet and turmeric are soluble in oils, so it may be possible to get less grainy results by letting them soak in olive oil for a few weeks before filtering, and using the oil as usual, or as part of the batch...
What an excellent video! Thank you so much for sharing. I'm using primarily mica for CP soap colorants, but very interested in the natural colorants and want to make sure they can hold up to my designs. I really appreciate the assist here. I also learned a few cool tips and techniques from your process. Thank you!
Making a color palette out of soap is so beautiful! This video is not only beautiful, but also contains a lot of information! Thank you so much for sharing your methods!💗 Making soap with natural colors felt a bit old. However, when I saw how you expressed it with natural pigments, I felt very sophisticated. Thank you so much for giving me new inspiration!
This was a super helpful tutorial as always!!! I love using natural colorants and yours is a channel I check out before pursuing another one. Well done!!
great video!!! have you ever tried carrot or beet powder? could you do a video just like this but on different liquids in place of water? Like coffee, milk, cucumber juice....etc???
Wow, extremely helpful info that’s definitely needed due to the natural additives losing pigment over time. However, mot people aren’t going to have a bar of soap around that long.😊Very well done! Hugz, Tree
Thank you, thank you. Will save your video for reference. I really appreciate all the work you put into doing this test. I did a color test using oxides so I know how much work it takes to do this type of test.
Great video! Beautiful colors! Can't wait to play around with some natural colorants. The trouble for me has been finding them locally. I might have to break down and order something, I'm really liking the blue and purple.
Thank you so much. Great detail! Beautiful samples. I am an Indie fiber Dyer and use walnut shell and onion skin as well as many of the Botanicals you use here in my dyeing. Could I use onion skin water (steep skins in simmering water) in my lye solution in soap? The yellows and oranges are great in fiber. How do I learn if there might be allergic reactions or worse?
Try Infusions of Paprika, anatto, Alkanet and indigo and Himalayan rhubarb. Gives a vastly different color! And paprika and rhubarb are especially beautiful as infusions. I gave up on Woad- perfect fresh (aqua) but fades to corpse gray ALL the time. Greens are notorious faders too. Also try putting some like ladder and possibly others right in lye.
Kudos to you, bcoz first time I have seen someone showing the details about soapcal. My question is, how your final batter (lye +oil) remains liquid for long? In my case, it solidifies so quickly that I don't get time to tap/swril
A great video- I've seen blue spirulina at our whole foods store- I'd love to know what the colour looks like in soap before I invest in getting it (it's crazy pricey here [Australia], but it's interesting that there's a stunning looking natural blue colourant)
Hello how are you? I have a question if it's ok When cocoa butter gets fat blooms how does it look like and can the Cocoa Butter still be used? Also, when Shea Butter gets grainy because of over heating, can it still be used? Thank you :)
Hi, I make soaps and am particularly new to soap making. I have a problem with my colored mica. The mica colors bleed in my soap lather no matter which mica color i use ( dark or light ). I add mica at the end when the lye and oils are combined. Even if I add little color the color still bleeds in the lather...I searched up this problem but when i read about it online they stated that no matter which color u use the lather comes out white and colorless. Please suggest how I tackle this problem. Love your videos they are very helpful. Thanks.
Hey, there! I got it here. www.amazon.com/dp/B00RGFVBQY/?coliid=I2SUZBFZLG46LG&colid=186158P92HKGJ&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it I am careful not to overheat butters because it can cause fat bloom. (Usually, it's in extreme cases.) I found that cocoa butter in chocolate will bloom that white film if heated too hot. It likes to be around 93°F.
I tested these colorants at 3 tsp per pound of oils. That may be a bit high for some of the colorants that I tested and cause the color to bleed. (I would use less tumeric.)
🌿Showing the samples after 3 years was meant to show how each colorant fades.⏳ They were exposed to almost no sunlight during that time.😴🌃 If your soap is exposed to sunlight, for example, at farmer's market, this fading can happen in one day.🌞 Just make sure you know about that. It can be frustrating.🌿🧼🛁 Watch till the end to see the colorant names and how they faded.🎨💕
This is a spectacular video. Thank you for sharing. A few discoveries I've made along the way with natural colors. First, if you infuse in the alkanet root with the oils for several hours, low heat, double boiler, your soap will be a vibrant beautiful purple. Combined with red sandalwood powder, it's even more vibrant and lasts longer. For powders like madder root, if you add them to the lye mixture when it is hot at the initial mixing, you'll get more vibrant colors. If you strain it as you pour the lye into the oils, you will have a pure color without all the little dots. Also, using smaller amounts of charcoal gives light blue colors.
I’ve done the double-boiler infusion with paprika and spinach. They yielded vibrant orange and almost lime green, and didn’t fade (but my soaps get used in about 6 months or so after curing, so they may not be the best examples for fading or not fading).
@@HeatherHogue73 Very interesting! How much do you add per pound of oil? TIA
I was wondering if you could tell me how much alkanet to use and how much oil?. I’m struggling to get a lovely purple and your comment caught my interest.
Thanks in anticipation
This has got to be one of the clearest and most concise videos I've ever watched. Your attention to detail is staggering. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. xxx
Wow, this video took 3 years to make! Thank you so much to wait 3 years to show the before-and-after on color fading! Amazing video! It appears that most green botanical colors faded to tan.
These colours are AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing. Very detailed and informative. Easily the best channel for videos on making soap at home.
I don't intend to make soap any time soon but I keep watching because I love her voice, it's so soothing 💗
That change was staggering! Wow!! Thanks so much for this
It's good to know ahead what to expect. Natural colors are so beautiful and worth exploring.🌿🧼🛁
Such a huge amount of work! Thank you so much for sharing your process and results. 🙏🏻
So very informative and excellent quality video... Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for touching on on the water discount. I've been using the soapcalc suggested 38%, and now I understand why my soap takes a few days before I can take it out of the mold, oy!
I love natural colourants, the specs make the soaps so interesting
Hello from Alaska!
Ooooo! I’m so excited to watch this one. Thanks for all your hard work.
Hello in Alaska! What an interesting life you must have living off-grid.🌿💕
@@TreeMarieSoapworks Thanks friend! Be blessed.
Wow! Impressive calculation skills! I'm envious!
Awesome in depth video, thank you! Being able see the samples years later it super helpful too.
I love all the natural earthy tones, just gorgeous! When I tried spinach powder I combined it with nettle powder, they worked great and they still have a tiny twinge green/yellow two years later! I really love using natural colorings, some of them can so hard to find though! I’ve wanted to find blue woad, couldn’t find it anywhere. But, I love my indigo!
I really admire your way to make soap so clean and precise. Love your videos ❤️
This is absolutely useful, thank you!
Such a valuable resource!! Thank you for sharing, Teri!! 👍
I remember when this channel only had around 10k subs! I was surprised to see that now it’s at 150K! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for this video, I got really excited when you showed the faded after pics haha this is the content I've been looking for!! I've had success with fresh tomato paste - its kept its lovely light orange colour but it might be because I made it hp and added after it was cooked.
Thanks for sharing your experience with tomato paste! I look forward to trying it out.
@@jeanettehaygood4154 you're welcome, good luck with it! I just looked it up and I used triple concentrate if that's helpful.
Wow, very interesting. I use many of these same natural dyes for yarn.
Soooo helpful! Thanks for sharing. The only one I didn’t see that I was interested in was annatto seed.
Very interesting video - thanks. I'd never heard that these additives reduce the longevity of the soap!
This was amazing to watch - so educational! Thank you for this and all you do to educate soap-makers. I recently blended indigo and marigold powders in my quest for a lasting natural green colorant. I got green, but it's more grayish than the bright green I was hoping for...
Fascinating and informative, as always! Thanks a bunch :)
Love this video!! So informative! Thank you for testing these.
This is an invaluable resource ❤
Thank you for this beautiful video and for all the work you put in !
You did such a great work! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this incredible video; seeing the color change over 3 years at the end was the best part. I’m so impressed that the soaps arent covered in DOS after 3 years, even though you used avocado oil (high in polyunsaturated fatty acids), shea butter (high in unsaponifiables), a 7% superfat, and loads of botanical colorants! How did you store them? Did you wrap them up, and does your office stay cool all year round? I live in a hot place and longevity is always a challenge here
Thanks, it's so inspiring. The amazing part is to see those samples after 3 years
Thanks for all your helpful information. All your videos. All your time.
This is so appreciated, Kim! 😘💖✨
What a spectacular video!! Thank you so much for this
I agree, it really is spectacular.For quite a while now I have been looking for info re natural colourants and you have so many.Also, such a really simple way of adding them, as opposed to infusing oil. My soap making is only for my use as a hobby and so having 12 bars of one soap gets a little dull after a while.This technique allows me to make a small batch of say 6 each of a different colour!
Wow so detailed information on natural colouring in soap very well done video
This is an absolutely wonderful video thank you so much, this really helps those of us who are crafters for family gifts and like natural products.
Wow, thank you so much for doing all of these samples. It was super helpful.
Your videos always have so much information, so full of knowledge. Thank you for sharing with us!
That was very interesting. I think some of the pigments like alknet and turmeric are soluble in oils, so it may be possible to get less grainy results by letting them soak in olive oil for a few weeks before filtering, and using the oil as usual, or as part of the batch...
Yes, I can confirm spinach, indigo and paprika have oil-soluble pigments.
Amazing video, thank you so much! I’ve just started experimenting with natural colorants and this is so incredibly helpful.
Wow 😮 this is an awesome experiment!!! Thanks so much for publishing it❤
Teri, I love your videos! They have been so very helpful!!
Thank you so much for this, so beautifully done and so detailed. Very helpful!! Again massive thanks ❤️❤️
WOW that was amazing to watch & know, thanks!!
Wow from a non soap maker that was sooo interesting, thanku - love the idea
What an excellent video! Thank you so much for sharing. I'm using primarily mica for CP soap colorants, but very interested in the natural colorants and want to make sure they can hold up to my designs. I really appreciate the assist here. I also learned a few cool tips and techniques from your process. Thank you!
As usual, so well done, Teri - thanks so much 👍
Making a color palette out of soap is so beautiful! This video is not only beautiful, but also contains a lot of information! Thank you so much for sharing your methods!💗
Making soap with natural colors felt a bit old. However, when I saw how you expressed it with natural pigments, I felt very sophisticated. Thank you so much for giving me new inspiration!
Excellent video and fantastic colours!
Extremely interesting, thank you so much for this video!
This is such an amazing resource, thank you so much!
This was a super helpful tutorial as always!!! I love using natural colorants and yours is a channel I check out before pursuing another one. Well done!!
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De foarte mare folos și un mare MULȚUMESC.
Dumnezeu sa va binecuvinteze!
Sooo awesome! Great job, and thank you for the information!
great video!!! have you ever tried carrot or beet powder? could you do a video just like this but on different liquids in place of water? Like coffee, milk, cucumber juice....etc???
Wow, extremely helpful info that’s definitely needed due to the natural additives losing pigment over time. However, mot people aren’t going to have a bar of soap around that long.😊Very well done! Hugz, Tree
Thankyou so very much this is very informative I can’t wait to do some testing on a few different ones also
wow thank you so much for making this video!
Amazing video learned so much. Thank you
Such a helpful video! Thank you!
This is so iinteresting. Thanks for the research.
Thank you, thank you. Will save your video for reference. I really appreciate all the work you put into doing this test. I did a color test using oxides so I know how much work it takes to do this type of test.
Glad it was helpful! It's a lot of work, but so work it for reference.
I luv the way you think! Ty
Very helpful! Thank you so much
Excellent video
Love your video, thank you for sharing.
Great video! Beautiful colors! Can't wait to play around with some natural colorants. The trouble for me has been finding them locally. I might have to break down and order something, I'm really liking the blue and purple.
Thank you so much. Great detail! Beautiful samples. I am an Indie fiber Dyer and use walnut shell and onion skin as well as many of the Botanicals you use here in my dyeing. Could I use onion skin water (steep skins in simmering water) in my lye solution in soap? The yellows and oranges are great in fiber. How do I learn if there might be allergic reactions or worse?
You shot this three years ago? Burying the lead!! 😂
Lovely video, always so interesting to see your process.
Thank you for this video ❤
So, so pretty!
I want to try calendula and nettle from my garden, I like how the colors look
Try Infusions of Paprika, anatto, Alkanet and indigo and Himalayan rhubarb. Gives a vastly different color! And paprika and rhubarb are especially beautiful as infusions. I gave up on Woad- perfect fresh (aqua) but fades to corpse gray ALL the time. Greens are notorious faders too.
Also try putting some like ladder and possibly others right in lye.
Kudos to you, bcoz first time I have seen someone showing the details about soapcal. My question is, how your final batter (lye +oil) remains liquid for long? In my case, it solidifies so quickly that I don't get time to tap/swril
I like this type soap😍😍🥰🥰
Interesting video. Thanks! My alkanet soap is a lot deeper red/maroon, rather than more brown. I wonder what made the difference.
Wow great content
thank you!
Informative
A 3-pack of uncolored, nettle & madder would make a fine Christmas gift.
A great video- I've seen blue spirulina at our whole foods store- I'd love to know what the colour looks like in soap before I invest in getting it (it's crazy pricey here [Australia], but it's interesting that there's a stunning looking natural blue colourant)
It completely loses its color after one day.
@@TreeMarieSoapworks
Oh- good to know. Thanks
Oh that was what I would like to know
Very informative video. I've a small query . does the papprikka powder colour burns while bathing? If you could answer please.
Thanks for saying so!💕
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I would love to make my own soaps but not sure how to measure oil batch size for soapcalc.?
Hello how are you?
I have a question if it's ok
When cocoa butter gets fat blooms how does it look like and can the Cocoa Butter still be used?
Also, when Shea Butter gets grainy because of over heating, can it still be used?
Thank you :)
This! I'm not super well versed but I want to know what a fat bloom is...
Thanks!
Thank you! 😘💕
I wish i could soak this soap🤤🥰
Hi,
I make soaps and am particularly new to soap making. I have a problem with my colored mica. The mica colors bleed in my soap lather no matter which mica color i use ( dark or light ). I add mica at the end when the lye and oils are combined. Even if I add little color the color still bleeds in the lather...I searched up this problem but when i read about it online they stated that no matter which color u use the lather comes out white and colorless. Please suggest how I tackle this problem.
Love your videos they are very helpful.
Thanks.
I love your butter/hard oil scooper, where’d you get it?
Why don’t you like to heat the Shea butter as much?
Hey, there! I got it here.
www.amazon.com/dp/B00RGFVBQY/?coliid=I2SUZBFZLG46LG&colid=186158P92HKGJ&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
I am careful not to overheat butters because it can cause fat bloom. (Usually, it's in extreme cases.) I found that cocoa butter in chocolate will bloom that white film if heated too hot. It likes to be around 93°F.
For the oven part, you put on wax paper and then Saran Wrap?
How to add sodium lactate to soap? Can I use stearic acid and sodium lactate both?
Wow
Can we use zinc oxide instead of titanium powder
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Paprika leaves a scent in the soap
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How to get the the purple and the blue color
How much turmeric to add
I tested these colorants at 3 tsp per pound of oils. That may be a bit high for some of the colorants that I tested and cause the color to bleed. (I would use less tumeric.)
If the cavities have the capacity of 1.7 ounces, wouldnt you then times 1.7 x 15.5…. Not 1.3… or did I miss something
That is to figure out the oil weight for putting the recipe into soapcalc. 1.7 x15.5 would be the batch weight.
@@TreeMarieSoapworks oooohhh 🤦🏻♀️gotcha. Makes sense thank you!!
Might be a good idea to explain which colourants you have used and the type as thats what your video seems to be about, buts its not lol
Watch the whole video.
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