HOW TO MAKE HANDMADE SOAP

Using natural colors to make soap is surely safe. Mostly of the natural soap colors can be found in your kitchen, the market, or from soap making suppliers.

Here are some list of natural ingredients that can use for coloring your soap :

(Note: some natural colors will change their color when they reacted with lye or oil or the soap mixture , so test the ingredients first before using them if you have created your own recipe)

Alfalfa – medium green
Alkanet – steep in oil first - deep purple to muted blue
Annatto Seed – steep in oil first - yellow orange
Beet Root – muted pinkish beige to muted pinkish dull brown.
Bentonite clay - off white to a light ivory-green
Black walnut hull - speckled purple-brown
Ground Calendula Petals - yellow
Carrots, shredded or ground - yellow to orange
Carrot juice (black) - light pinkish brown
Ground Chamomile – yellow-beige
Chamomile (German) essential oil - light pastel green
Chlorophyll - medium greens
Cinnamon - tan to brown – can be an irritant
Cloves, ground – brown
Cochineal powder – light to deep red depending on amount used
Cocoa powder– brown
Coffee/coffee grounds - brown to black
Comfrey Root – light milky brown
Cornmeal, blue - purplish-blue-brown
Cucumber – bright green
Curry powder - yellow
Elderberries – steep in lye solution – light brown
Green tea powder - brownish-greenish - speckled
Henna, ground - olive to deep drab green - brown
Indigo root - deep blues - caution, can stain
Jojoba beads - come in many colors, and add exfoliation too
Kaolin Clay - white to off white
Kelp/seaweed - green
Madder root - rosy red - purple
Milk (goats or cow's) - tan to brown, depending upon sugar & fat content
Morrocan Red Clay - Brick Red
Olive leaf powder - warm ochre/brown color
Orange juice - used in place of water for lye solution - nice pastel orange/beige
Paprika – light orange peach to orange-brown - can be an irritant
Poppy Seeds - Blue-grey to light black specks
Pumice, ground - grey
Pumpkin, pureed - lovely deep orange Example
Rattanjot – light lavender-brown to deep purplish chocolate brown
Rhassoul clay - a light speckled gray-brown
Rose Pink Clay - Brick red
Rosehip seeds, ground - light tan to deep brown
Safflower Petals- yellow to deep orange
Saffron - yellows
Sage - green
Sandalwood powder (red) - deep purplish brown - nice speckles
Spearmint - greenish brown
Spinach – light green
Spirulina/Blue-Green Algae – light pastel green to blue-green
Titanium Dioxide- bright white
Tree lichen - nice light pinkish beige - varies on type of lichen
Turmeric – golden brown to amber
Wheatgrass juice - lovely deep green
Woad powder - bluish green

The above list of natural colors for cold process soap came from :
http://candleandsoap.about.com/od/soapmakingbasics/a/natcolors.htm