Beginners guide to how to colour cold process soap naturally using a selection of different clays

Hello everyone!

One question I see time and time again is how to achieve striking colour results in cold process soap, using only natural colourants. This means no micas, no synthetic colourants and no oxides. (oxides and micas can be classed as natural or nature identical, depending on what they are coated with, but for this video, we are going 100% unarguably natural!) We have put together this video to show you how we colour some of our soaps naturally using clays.

Clays are extremely beneficial for use in soap, they add colour, they have various different skin loving properties and they can even help anchor your scent in soap.

When it comes to colouring soap naturally, there are a wide variety of options, but we love using clay as it really is so easy!

Today we will be using French green clay, French yellow clay, Moroccan red clay, rose clay, Rhassoul clay, Dead Sea clay, Kaolin clay and a 50/50 mix of Moroccan red and French yellow clay to colour our soaps and show you the colour results that we achieve. We will also be chatting through the individual benefits of each clay as well as the overall benefits of using clays in soaps.

The video is quite a long one today! We have tried to condense it as much as possible, but we wanted to make it fairly detailed in order to give you as much information as possible!

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