Natural Coloured Soaps

Natural Coloured Soap 

Create your own naturally coloured soaps using vibrant natural ingredients like paprika, spirulina, and green clay. 

Each soap offers unique benefits:

•  Paprika soap provides a warm, earthy hue.
•  Spirulina soap is packed with nutrients. 
•  Green clay soap gently detoxifies the skin.

Paprika Soap

For this loaf, I used 2 tablespoons of paprika, stirred into the grapeseed oil portion of the recipe. I left it to infuse for two days, stirring occasionally. (This is simply called paprika-infused oil — nothing fancy!)

When I was ready to make the soap, I poured the oil off the paprika grains as I didn’t want the texture in the final bar. You can leave them in if you prefer — it’s entirely your choice.

I chose grapeseed oil because it’s very clear. I didn’t want the red of the paprika competing with the green tone of olive oil or the yellow tone of rapeseed oil.

Spirulina Soap

This bar was coloured with 2 tablespoons spirulina powder.
It was infused in grapeseed oil using the same method described above. Just before pouring, I added 20g poppy seeds for gentle exfoliation and visual texture.

Green Clay Soap

This bar was made with 2 tablespoons green clay. The clay was not infused. Instead, it was stirred directly into the soap mixture just before trace.

Naturally Yellow Soap (No Added Colour)

This bar was made using rapeseed oil to demonstrate how you can achieve a beautiful natural yellow tone without adding any colourants at all.

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 Natural Coloured Soap Formula 

Ingredients

• 230g grapeseed oil
• 230g organic palm oil
• 230g RBD coconut oil
• 230g water
• 104g sodium hydroxide
• 2 tablespoons paprika powder
• 30g palmarosa essential oil

Method

Here's the process with step by step instructions and photos
Cold process soapmaking in pictures

Equipment 

You'll need some cold press soapmaking equipment
Cold process soapmaking equipment

Video Tutorial 

Here's the process with Chelsea & Megan's Video Tutorial
Cold process soapmaking video

Note 

Do you have your Cold Pressed Soap Recipe Ready? If it's your first time making soap at home, it makes sense to start with a basic recipe, theres plenty of options! 

Cold Process Soap Recipes

Want to resize this recipe to fit your mould size? If you want to adjust the batch size, or tweak this recipe using a similar carrier oil, jump on Go Native's
Soap Making Calculator where you can use it to calculate the amount of sodium hydroxide and water needed to make your soap from one or more oils. It's super handy, it's free and it's and easy to use