Teach Soap

Apologies if there is already a question about this on the board, I haven't read through all of it. If I use cocoa powder in an attempt to make chocolate soap, is that enough to colour it a chocolatey brown, or should I use an actual colourant? I'm using BB's dark rich chocolate fragrance. I've looked at a few recipes but they seem to mostly use coffee as well and I'm not doing that - not this time anyway. Also, can you use a clay colourant and an oxide or ultramarine in the same soap? Not mixed together, just in swirls etc. if I had a red clay and a green oxide and wanted to make red and green soap, would that be okay?
Thanks for any help - I know I should be experimenting to find these things out, but it takes a while to get new ingredients so I'm always reluctant to waste any!

Cocoa powder can bleed and give you brown bubbles. I would mix red and green soap colors to get brown.

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Irena
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You really don't need to add any colorant with Dark Rich Chocolate. It will turn your soap a very dark brown. Not immediately, but over several days. It will also make brown bubbles and some of the brown color will come off on your wash cloth. It was the first discoloring f.o. I used and didn't know about the color coming off. Everyone said they liked the way it smelled but not the discolored wash cloths. Good luck and many happy soaping days ahead.

MaryLou

Thanks for the advice, Irena and MaryLou! I didn't know that about the chocolate fo