Argh! I tried to get a dark red tint to my MP soap because I was using the Dragon's Blood FO. So after following the chart to a T, tell me why did my soap turn out dark, grayish lavender? Well, I'll tell you. The intial color mix was ....dark pink, not dark red. Ok, I thought, add more drops of red. Note: DO NOT do this. So that's how I got the lavender. Oh, MochaMama, how did it become grayish? Well, let's see. I had some black clay that I so cleverly added, thinking it would bring the color down. Hmm, mission accomplished - now I've got grayed out lavender soap. Sigh. Sometimes I really hate experimenting. I've figured it out though. I need to use clear soap to get some of the more true colors on the chart. Apparently the MP white base of the soap interferes with the coloring, i.e no matter how much red I add, it will still look pinkish.(Look, I'm a genius - I figured that out all by myself.) Smells nice though. Very spicy/woodsy - patchouli is the I'll just cut it up and call it Mist or something like that. Thanks for "listening".