Colorants, Colorants in Glycerine

Colorants - Powdered
Descriptions of the colors are at the bottom of this page.
Also, check out our new Pearlized Colorants
Our colorants are safe for your cold process soaps, Glycerine Soap Base (M & P), our lotion base, liquid soap/shower gel, shampoo base, hair conditioner, mineral bath salts, bath bombs and many other cosmetic products. The colorants color products differently. The color names are for cold process soap. Ask when ordering if you are using colorants for other uses. Think what color you want the finished product, and we'll help you choose the best colorant for that particular use.
We carry three basic types of colorants - Iron Oxides, Ultramarines, and D & C (drug/cosmetic) They come powdered form in plastic jars.
Iron Oxides -
The color names pertain to the color you will get when using them for cold process soap. Sometimes the colors come out the same in other applications, sometime not.

Black	Pink	Buttercup Yellow
Plum	Terracotta	Chromium Oxide Green (our Avocado Green)
All above - 1 oz $5.00 4 oz $15.00

Ultramarines - Blue & Violet 1 oz $5.00 4 oz $15.00
Ultramarines will color everything the same - blue is blue, violet is violet. No surprises! Oxides and ultramarines are mined from the earth and are more natural.

D & C Colorants
Color	1/2 oz	1 oz	4 oz
Red #30 Alum Lake, Pink	7.00	11.00
Red #33 - Magenta	7.00	12.00
Red #40 - Red	7.00	12.00
Green #8 - Lime-Yellow	Prices soon
Yellow #5		5.00	15.00
Yellow #10 Lake Yellow	4.00	7.00	21.00
Yellow #5, Peachy Orange		5.00	15.00
For powdered colorants
Descriptions of the colorants are at the bottom of this page

Tips on using powdered colorants Directions for all powdered colorants when using for cold process soap: Stir until the colorant is thoroughly dissolved into the water. At trace, after you have added your scent to your soap, add a little of your soap to the dissolved colorant and stir. Add more until one cup and add when the colorant is completely dissolved, add back to the rest of the soap, stirring the soap. Remember your soap will be much lighter than when it has set for the 24 hours. It will be darker when you uncover it. You will see what I mean when you have worked with the colorants for awhile. To marble, put about one third of the scented soap batch into your mold. Then color the rest that is left in the pot. Pour into mold going down the middle of the mold and around outer edge, and then swirl with your spoon. This is like making marble cake. Marbling works best when you just come to a light trace. If you are having problems with your soap being too yellow before you add your colorant and you don't end up with the color you wanted, you could add Titanium Dioxide. Add about two tablespoons per 8# batch of soap at trace. You can also liquefy the powdered colorants. Put about one teaspoon in a two ounce plastic bottle and add about one ounce distilled water. Use flip top lid. Shake well and sprinkle on. This method does not work for cold process soap.


Colorant Descriptions Following are descriptions of the powdered colorants:
Avocado Green Oxide	This is a medium green colorant and will color everything a green color. Also called Chromium Oxide Green
Black Iron Oxide	Black will color black - but did you know if you added small amounts to other colors it will deepen them. So you can have more than one shade of your different colors without buying another colorant!!! Use about 5 to 1 at first and then to your liking. Like most oxides, it will not work well in bath salts.
Buttercup Yellow Oxide	Will color everything a buttercup yellow. Soft Golden Yellow.
Pink Oxide	We are changing from Blush Pink to this Pink. Will color cold process soap pink. Will color opaque melt & pour a pretty pink bubblegum color. Will color bath salts a brownish color, not pink.
Plum Iron Oxide	This will color cold process soap a beautiful plum color and everything else will be colored the same brownish color as the pink oxide above.
Terra Cotta Oxide	Again, will color cold process terra cotta and everything else more of a brownish, reddish color.
Ultramarine Blue	A vibrant medium to dark blue, I've tried it in lots of things and it colored them all blue - no ugly variations.
Ultramarine Violet	A true lilac color. Like the blue - colors nicely.
D & C Red #30 Pink	Will color most everything a pink color.
D & C Red #33 Magenta	Will color cold process soap magenta - maybe fuchsia on other applications.
D & C Red #40 Red	This is as close as we can come to a red color for cold process soap. Will color other products red.
D & C Yellow #5	This will color cold process soap yellow and if you use it very sparingly other things yellow as well. It's orange in color, but will color yellow. It's orange because it's so concentrated.
D & C Yellow #6 - Peachy Orange	This will color cold process soap orange and if you use it very sparingly other things will turn orange as well. Use a little Yellow #5 with it to make a more peachy tone. It's red because it's so concentrated.
D & C Green #8 - Yellow/Lime	Colors more yellow than lime. I haven't tried it in cold process soap. Perhaps that will be more of a lime.