Prerna Porwal
Hello Friends, so you are ready with a soap base and looking for the best colorants? Aren’t you? Well, for every DIY Melt and Pour recipe, there is a choice one needs to make of using natural colors from spices, botanicals, or using Natural dyes which are water-soluble, or using minerals or ultramarines and oxides, or branded ready colorants. To make things easier for you, I recommend you all to select branded natural melt and pour soap colorants for your soap bases or for preparing other bathing accessories.
I have selected the 3 top brands of pure liquid colorants for your DIY soap base recipes.
Aroma’s premium quality liquid colorants have been specially formulated for melt and pour soaps, bath bombs and bubble baths. For normal soap bases of 100gms, 2-4 drops of Aroma colorant is sufficient. It is a handcrafted product prepared with love.
Key Features:
- The set includes 8 vibrant shades each in a 15ml bottle
- Colors included are pink, orange, red, yellow, brown, blue, green and purple
- The colorants come in white bottles with a built-in dropper for easy and mess-free application
Aromart Liquid Colorants are skin-safe pigments for melt and pour soap bases, bath bombs, body scrubs, bath lotions, etc. The pigments are bottled in flexible white bottles having a dropper. An additional 2 shades are gifted to consumers along with this pack.
Key Features:
- The set includes 6 shades of 25ml each (Plus, free 2 add ons)
- Skin-friendly formulation
Tatvam liquid soap colorants are naturally prepared skin-friendly colors. The brand is into purity products that are derived from natural sources and no chemical additions. The range of 8 vibrant shades is useful in DIY soap bases, bath bombs and skincare lotions and body wash.
Key Features:
- Available in 10ml and 30ml sizes
- Skin-friendly colors
These are my top 3 choices of best colorants for melt and pour soap in India. Try one of them and you will surely be satisfied with the quality.
1. Can you use food coloring to color melt and pour soap?
Yes, the melt and pour soap process is a simple process involving simple colorants which are water-soluble in nature. Almost all natural food colors are water-soluble and thus can be used here as well.
2. How do you add natural color to soap?
Easy Stuff friends, for example, you need yellow color in your soap, then take a pumpkin, carrot puree or turmeric and add in your soap base as per requirement. For having a natural green shade, you can select olive oil and so on.
3. Can I use crayons to color my soap?
Yes, it can be used in soap bases. Crayons must be grated and then melted prior to adding in any soap base.
4. Can I use eyeshadow to color soap?
In terms of safety and feasibility, eye shadow is considered safe for soap bases. However, it contains few mineral pigments like titanium dioxide, micas and oxides, which tends to get affected during the process of saponification. There might be a change of blue eye shadow color to grey or green.
To read about an overall general guide on using soap colours, read here.