Did not contain discoloring oils and water was used
to mix the lye with.
Method:
HP
Amount:
1 tablespoon per pound of oils
When added:
To the oils before mixing in the lye water.
Comments:
Color stays true
Soaper:
TES
(Tara)
Recipe:
no discoloring oils, 32 oz oils total
Method:
CP
Amount:
I *think* it was 2 tsp to about a third of that
total weight
When added:
After trace.
Comments:
Has faded slightly, the
first colored layer is the tumeric layer...so it's the plain white
base, tumeric colored, green clay then red clay.
Fresh
pandan leaves
Soaper:
Susanne
Recipe:
Did not contain discoloring oils for the green half
of the soap, fifty/fifty water and coconut milk was used to mix the lye
with.
Method:
HP
Amount:
Infused olive oil with the pandan leaves and pureed
the leaves afterwards with some coconut milk. of this micture I added
approx. 1 heaping tablespoon per pound of oils
When added:
After cook, just before pouring in the mold
Comments:
Soap can become a bit scratchy if you add too much
or don't puree the leaves fine enough. When kept in the dark the soap
stays a pretty green, the ones exposed to sunlight discolored to
yellowish after about 2 months. A very nice and subtle pandan scent
comes through in the soap.
Fresh
avocado
Soaper:
TES
(Tara)
Recipe:
No disccoloring oils, mixed lye w/water
Method:
CP
Amount:
2 oz pureed avocado
When added:
At trace
Comments:
Gave this beautiful green color for quite some time
but has since faded to a yellowish tint. I can't give an exact time of
when the fading occured as my soap was in storage in a barn over the
entire summer
Pureed
cucumber
Soaper:
TES
(Tara)
Recipe:
No discoloring oils, in a 42oz oils batch I mixed
lye w/half water
Method:
CP
Amount:
8 oz pureed cucumber
When added:
After mixing lye w/oils but before trace
Comments:
Olive
Leaf / Safflower Powder
Soaper:
Bathsheba
and Flowerhead
Recipe:
Very white, 60% lard soap
Method:
CP
Amount:
Scant 1/2 tsp. each of olive leaf and safflower
powder per 3 oz. of traced soap
When added:
After trace
Comments:
Not gelled
Green
stevia and safflower powder
Soaper:
Bathsheba
and Flowerhead
Recipe:
Very white, 60% lard soap
Method:
CP
Amount:
1/4 tsp. safflower, 1/2 tsp. stevia powder per 3 oz.
of traced soap
When added:
After trace
Comments:
Not gelled
Green
stevia and hawthorn
Soaper:
Flowerhead
Recipe:
1 3/4 C RBO infused with 2/3 C hawthorns (50% oils
of recipe), blended together and allowed to sit a few days.
Method:
CP
Amount:
1/4 tsp. Green Stevia added at trace to approx. 1
cup of soap for another sad attempt at a swirl.
When added:
With oils and at trace
Comments:
Unfortunately I should have put this soap in the
fridge to prevent gel, I think the green would have been nicer. Stevia
added to a yellow base seems to give a nice green.
Green
avocado oil & nettle
Soaper:
Susanne
Recipe:
10% very dark green avocado oil and 30% extra vierge
olive oil
Method:
CP
Amount:
Added 1 teabag (1.5 g) of ground nettle
When added:
Oils with the oils, nettle at trace
Comments:
Gelled and ungelled looks the same: a very light
speckled green.
Rosemary
Soaper:
Darlene ("Flash")
Recipe:
I use pomace olive oil but it does not seem to discolor.
The soap on the right in picture is the same recipe but without colorant
or scent. See below for notes on infused oil.
Method:
CP
Amount:
Infused 1 oz of freshly ground rosemary in 15 oz of
pomace olive oil. Used in my 32 oz of oils batch.
When added:
Infused in 45% of main oils the day before making soap
Other:
Green. To infuse the rosemary, I put the freshly ground rosemary
& olive oil in a pot and heated it, alternating between low heat and
no heat to keep warm without overheating for several hours one day and
a few hours the next morning. I let the rosemary settle to the bottom
& poured the oil off the top trough a coffee filter which gave me
13.5 oz of infused oil. I had to add 0.9 oz un-infused olive oil to get
my 45% of oils for my 32 oz recipe. When I used the stick blender,
everything turned a caramel brown. Insulated with towels for gel. The
next day it was back to green. Picture taken 10 days after soaping.
Now, 15 days after soaping, it has faded to a greenish tan instead of
the light-bright green it was.
Rosemary
& Ginko
Soaper:
Flowerhead
Recipe:
Lard infused with lots of rosemary, OO infused with ginko.
Method:
CP
Amount:
I got unscientific here... sorry...
When added:
IWith the oils
Other:
The lard was a beautiful sage green, the olive oil a
nice dark green from the ginko. When the lye/water was added the whole
thing turned brown. Then orange. Then tan. And back to green after a
day or so. I think the color is more of a green than the picture shows.
The darker soap gelled, the lighter less green, one did not.
