Coloring Soap

There is a myriad of ways to color your soaps. Let's look at the many different ways for coloring your homemade soap. You can make your soap any color of the rainbow. Make it blue or yellow! Or blend blue and red colorants to make a purple soap that can be poured into a mold that looks like a bunch of grapes! Make a bowlfull of soap balls that are red, orange, green, yellow, pink, red, blue, or whatever colors you can blend to make a bright and cheerful pile of soap balls to brighten up your bathroom.

One of the most common and easiest ways, to color your soap is to simply use food coloring. It is one of the most inexpensive ways to color all of your homemade soaps. One can find packs or bottles of food coloring in the spices and/or baking goods area of your local grocery store. Just about any herb or spice that has a strong staining quality to it, such as sassafras, and turmeric, will make an excellent soap colorant. Black soap is made by the addition of not a colorant but a strong, smoky smelling black powder that comes from Africa.

Finding natural soap colorants for your homemade soaps is always better than the harsher, artificial color additives that the commercial soaps use, and many of the colorants also have therapeutic qualities that are added to the soap. Many of the plants you have growing in your garden or the spices in your kitchen pantry can be used to scent and color your homemade soaps. Violets, lavender, and jasmine will give your soap a pretty light purple colors while scenting your soap beautifully. Cinnamon and sassafrass will give your soap reddish to brownish color and smell yummy. Red rose petals will impart a lovely reddish to pinkish tinge and make your soap smell like a rose garden.

So, if you want to naturally color your soap try using your basic store bought food colorings, and mix those to get different colors. Or you can try using natural herbs for making your colorants, and many of these can also be found at you local grocery store in the spice aisle. Turmeric will make a beautiful light to golden yellow color. Sassafras will give a reddish brown color to your soaps as well as adding the antibacterial properties of the sassafras tree. Experiment!

Making colored homemade soap is fun and rewarding. It is an activity you and your whole family can even enjoy and do together.

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