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Alkanet – Alkanna tinctoria or dyer’s alkanet is a very attractive purple colourant that is found in the roots of plants belonging to the borage family. It grows uncultivated throughout central Europe and extends to central Asia and North Africa. The extracted pigment is often used in cosmetics, soaps and pigments.
Use alkanet to produce a grey – purple colour in cp soap. Best infused into an oil of your choice.
15g alkanet into 300g oil for infusion. Use aprox 15% of your oils in your recipe as the infused oil.
Or you can superfat your soap with your infusion 10 -15%. The more you add the darker towards blue/purple you will get.
Alkanet can also be used in wool dying
| Weight | 0.02 kg |
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| Size | 10G, 30G, 60G, 100G |
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tubbytabbysoaps –
This alkanet has been a staple in our standard line of CP soap for years now. We leave it to infuse for a few weeks, so it does take planning ahead. When it first infuses in the oil (we use olive, and at 40% of our recipe), you get a beautiful red colour. But when you add the lye to it, it turns a dusty blue colour! The colour seems to be PH-dependent, to once the soap saponifies and the PH lowers a bit, it settles somewhere in the middle at a purple colour. It’s really lovely! We use it in our lemon lavender soap and colour half the batter so it’s purple and white swirls. Our customers love it–it’s one of our best-selling soaps since we’ve been making it. Really can’t recommend this beautiful natural colourant enough!