I've tried the food colorings before and know they turn, but these colorings are pretty new to me. I started to say "nope, they're Essentials by Catalina" then I went and looked. Those are just the FD&C in a dextrose base...LOL. The green morphed orange on me, but I had never tried the blue. Now I know...lol Thanks for the kind words ya'll! It really helps keep the courage up to try things again. The colors are really very pretty now and the bars look a bit better now that they're cleaned up. Many of them still have chunks that fell out and a few have soap blobs that got no color or salt mixed in, but all in all, not bad