Colors and additives for soap

When you are making soap, you will want to make a nice soap. Soap naturally has a shade of beige color and you will surely want to slightly refresh and revive it. The possibilities are great, but the appearance should not call into question the nature of the soap. So you do it yourself, to make it a completely natural and healthy product. It is a pity to ruin it with chemical dyes. Even nutritional colors are considered chemicals because they are in their composition and they are. It's not just clear why they are called "nutritional". Well-known "Lush" soaps are used in these nutritional colors, because they are better sold with soap. My criteria are more rigorous and nutritional color is not a good choice.
What is first imposed is the natural colors obtained from plants, fruits and vegetables. My experience has shown me that this is not the luckiest solution. Especially not for the cold soap making process. The problem is that in the cold process at the time of adding natural color, saponification has not yet ended. Most plants react at that point with soda and mostly change color. There are few natural ingredients that do not react. Among those who are well maintained and give a succulent color are: red peppers, curry, cinnamon, cocoa. My sincere recommendation is to cool the process and do not try too much to achieve the color of the natural ingredients. You will never achieve the vibrant colors you have imagined and this color will always change a bit because of the reaction with soda. The warm process where the saponification finishes is much more acceptable for coloring the natural ingredients. The warm processor is a long-term thermal oil treatment.

Another coloring option is pigment for cosmetics. I agreed to limited use of cosmetics pigment. It is about iron oxides obtained by chemical rust treatment. Thus, a red, green, purple pigment is obtained. Blue and white pigments are gained especially as ore. Pigments do not really have any alkaline reaction and are excellent in color.
As for the other extras, the possibilities are great. You will surely want to add petals of flowers, leaves of plants. It is recommended that you use dry plants. You will very often want to add ingredients with peeling properties. These can be crumbs of coconut, poppy, coffee, ginger ... Instead of distilled water you can use tea from plants, fruit or vegetable juice, milk, yogurt, honey ... The possibilities are as limitless as your imagination.