I made some purple grape soap again yesterday – this time with the grape pop mica, and just a little bit of the ultramarine slurry from the first batch. It came out surprisingly similar to the first batch – even a little more blue, and maybe not as dark. For the sake of comparison, here [...]
I know you weren’t overly impressed with my purple soap yesterday. The color I left you with in the mold wasn’t exactly pretty. However, you know if you are a soapmaker that there is a little bit of magic that takes place during saponification: I had several people on my Facebook fan page, as well [...]
There are several fragrances that smell purple to me. And almost all of them are yellow tinted oils. I’m really not sure how many batches of grey soap I’ve made trying to get a yellow tinted fragrance oil to come out purple in cold-processed soap. I’ve always used ultramarines to color soap. You would think [...]
