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they all look great! Still haven't found enough time yet to make some soap!

I finally made soap again. I dumped an entire small bottle of lavender essential oil into it at trace. And then decided to wing it with swirls but apparently you cannot just add drops of purple coloring you get from Amazon into it, thinking it will be swirled. That does not come out the way one thinks it might. Drops of purple just disappeared and still did not look swirled when dropped in again with dropper after pouring into little molds.

It does smell like lavender though

Moody said:

I finally made soap again. I dumped an entire small bottle of lavender essential oil into it at trace. And then decided to wing it with swirls but apparently you cannot just add drops of purple coloring you get from Amazon into it, thinking it will be swirled. That does not come out the way one thinks it might. Drops of purple just disappeared and still did not look swirled when dropped in again with dropper after pouring into little molds.

It does smell like lavender though

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you'll have post some pictures!!!

And I'm using the milk to make soap after I just dewormed my does. I can't imagine that would be a problem....

Guess I need to watch a video and check into my soap coloring drops I got. Winging it didn't work out quite like I wanted

You need to make sure the soap colors will work in cold process soaps, or high pH soaps. The colorants for melt and poor soap just don't give you the colors you want in cold process soap. I get most of mine from Brambleberry and 90% of the time I use a mica or powdered pigment that is put into a small amount (T. or less) of oil and mixed. Some colorants will tell you to mix them in glycerin. Then I take part of the soap batter and color it and do what is called an "in the pot swirl" . It is one of the easiest ways to color and a great way to start to experiment with colors. I also do a lot of layers and you will find that a loaf mold will give you more unique ways to incorporate color than individual molds.

Here are pictures of some of mine. Playing with colors is my favorite part of making soap.

cool pictures @Moody and @babsbag!!

Those look yummy, if I put one of those on my sink, my child would definitely try a bite


They are pretty, you have excellent skills, babs. I'm guessing it took quite a bit of trial and error to achieve those awesome results

Those. Soaps! Babs... I can't wait to start trying to make soap but it will be a long while before I can do that!