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Natural Soap Colorants Gallery – Clays added at trace

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Here are some results using cosmetic clay to color your soap naturally. From Nature with Love has an awesome clay sample pack (affliliate link).

Sea Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Rose Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Rhassoul Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Red Kaolin Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Red Illite Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Pink Kaolin Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Multani Mitti Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Green Illite Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace


French Green Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Yellow Illite Clay – 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace

Color Soap Naturally Series

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Although I love making bright and colorful soap using micas, pigments, Lab Colors and other synthetic colorants, ever since I started making soap I’ve been drawn to using natural colorants in soap making.  To me there is a romantic notion that soap can be colored using natural herbs, spices and clays.

And if you sell soap…you probably know that consumers love the word “natural”.  Using botanicals and other natural colorants sounds great on a label.  “Colored naturally using alkanet and annatto seed herbal powders” sounds much better than “colored with Mica, Titanium Dioxide, iron oxide and Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide”.  

Over the past year and a half I’ve been experimenting with herbal powders, spices and clays and want to share my results with you.  We’ll start the series off today with how to test herbal and spice powders for pH stability and also how to make herbal infusions.