Are you struggling with obtaining vibrant and saturated colors with your oil infusions for your handmade soaps? This tutorial will help you with your woes! It could be that you’re not using enough botanical, or infused oil, or that your infusions are not up to snuff. With so many variables, it can be hard to troubleshoot your color issues. So, let’s dive in and learn how to make and use oil infusions to color handmade soap!
Here’s what you’ll learn in this soapy tutorial:
- How to determine if you should use oil or water to extract your colors.
- How to see if the “lye monster” will turn your color brown.
- Exactly how to make and use oil infusions to color your handmade soaps. (including exactly how much botanical you should be using).
- Explore using hot infusions, cold infusions, and a hybrid infusion that can cut your “oil infusing wait time” down to as little as one week!
p.s. No, this isn’t a basic “here’s how to make a hot infusion, and here’s a cold infusion”. This is a full course on all types of oil infusions, discussing when they are appropriate to use, and how to “cheat” them with hybrid infusions to optimize your soap production (and to get great colors of course!)
And, since we can’t make soap without making art (well, you could, but art is half the fun!) you’ll also receive the following mini-tutorials on in the video lessons:
- Drop Swirl Design
- Coloring portions of batter with botanical powders.