How to Make Colored Soap

Making colored soap is easy and fun.

Making your own soap is a fun and useful hobby. You are in charge of what goes into the soap in terms of ingredients, fragrances, and yes, even colors. It is simple to make your own soap, and it is just a simple to add vivid or soft colors to the soap as well. Using special colorants or even a little food coloring is all it takes to make the simple recipe below into your own colorful soap.

Things You'll Need

• Glycerin soap base
• Mixing bowl
• Plastic wrap
• Microwave
• Spoon
• Soap fragrance oils
• Soap colorant or food coloring
• Soap mold
• Rubbing alcohol in spray bottle
• Airtight container

Instructions

1. Break the soap base into smaller chunks. (This can be done by hand.)

2. Place the chunks into the mixing bowl.

3. Cover the mixing bowl with plastic wrap.

4. Place the bowl into the microwave and heat on high for one minute.

5. Remove the bowl from microwave and remove/discard the plastic wrap.

6. Stir the base to melt any remaining chunks of solid soap base.

7. Add 15 to 20 drops of your choice of fragrance oil.

8. Add soap colorant (follow package directions for the colorant you chose, as usage varies greatly by product), or add three to five drops of your choice of food coloring (more food coloring makes a darker color).

9. Carefully pour the soap into your soap molds, lightly spraying any expose areas of soap with rubbing alcohol (to prevent air bubbles from forming).

10. Allow the soap to solidify for 3 to 24 hours.

11. Carefully remove the soap from the mold and store in an airtight container until you are already to use it.

Tips & Warnings

• Specialty soap making supplies (such as soap base, colorant, fragrance oils and soap molds) can be purchased in soap making stores or online. Soap bases are pre-made, basic soap that can be used without additives such as colorant or fragrance. You can purchase soap base that is already colored and skip adding colorant altogether.

• Be careful when working with hot liquid soap base as it can burn the skin.

References

• TeachSoap.com: Basic Melt and Pour Soap Tutorial