Morning Zing

If I'm going to have a sell soap as a business I'm going to have to develop a range. I have decided on a basic soap recipe that I like - now to think about fragrance and appearance.

After playing around with essential oils I came up with a blend of grapefruit, lemon and peppermint. I'm not the biggest fan of minty smells but with the citrus it made a fragrance that was very invigorating and refreshing. And so Morning Zing was born.

I also had plans to have colour swirled through the soap. I am thinking that I want to try and make soap that has as little impact on the environment as possible by using natural colourants and essential oils as opposed to synthetically produced colours and fragrances. I had some powdered beetroot that was a beautiful purpley-red colour. When I added it to some soap this is what I got:

Ewww :(

So decided to have another go with spirulina and this is what I got:

After how much the spirulina faded last time I made it fairly strong. Will see how it looks in a month's time...