{"id":6671,"date":"2015-08-18T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:33:01","slug":"how-to-make-black-cold-process-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/2015\/08\/how-to-make-black-cold-process-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Black Cold Process Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email the other day asking how to make a nice black bar of soap. This person had tried using black oxide but it came off on the wash rag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24643\" src=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-683x1024.png\" alt=\"How to Make Black Cold Process Soap\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-67x100.png 67w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-600x900.png 600w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap-700x1050.png 700w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/How-to-Make-Black-Cold-Process-Soap.png 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>My #1 advice for making black soap? Use charcoal powder!<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of black oxide or black mica. Usually when I make a black soap with either, it lathers gray. Charcoal never seems to lather gray.<\/p>\n<p>I LOVE charcoal powder! I use nothing else when making my soap gray or black. You can find it from many soap suppliers including Bramble Berry (affiliate link) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brambleberry.com\/Activated-Charcoal-P4956.aspx?bb=5\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. If you have a local natural health food\/herb store, they probably have it.<\/p>\n<p>You also get the added benefits of using charcoal. It is drawing and cleansing, great for acne or oily skin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9952.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6674\" src=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9952-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"black soap\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9952-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9952-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9952-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9952-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9952.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How much should you use?<\/h3>\n<p>Do you want gray or black soap?<\/p>\n<p>For gray soap, start with 1 teaspoon charcoal per pound of oils.<\/p>\n<p>For black soap, start with 1\/2 tablespoon charcoal per pound of oils.<\/p>\n<p>If your soap goes through gel phase, it will help make it dark black!<\/p>\n<p>Add it to the oils before adding the lye solution, or if you are swirling, add it to lightly traced soap.<\/p>\n<h3>Here are two blog posts where I used charcoal.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/2015\/07\/charcoal-and-sea-salt-face-bar-cold-process-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charcoal and Sea Salt Acne-Busting Face Bar Cold Process Soap<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/2012\/10\/charcoal-facial-bar-with-mango-avocado-and-babassu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charcoal Facial Bar with Mango, Avocado and Babassu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">For other recipes using natural colorants and essential oil blends, check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/shop\/lovin-soap-studio-cold-process-soap-recipe-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">recipe book<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h3>Giveaway!<\/h3>\n<h3>What is your favorite black colorant? What experiences have you had with making a black soap?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Leave a comment<\/strong> to be entered to win a free eBook. We\u2019ll draw a name from the comments tomorrow at 1 pm (central time).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I asked &#8220;Have you ever had a soap seize? Did you panic? How\u2019d you fix it? I\u2019d love to know!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the drawing for a free eBook is Sheila Peoples!\u00a0 Congrats! I&#8217;ll be emailing you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Black Soap Making!<\/p>\n<p>-Amanda Gail<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email the other day asking how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","iawp_total_views":211,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[645,648,652,640],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_99512.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10gIL-1JB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovinsoap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}