Any experience using candle color chips to color soaps?

[thecandlespastore]

I have a TON of candle coloring chips from when I was making candles and I have searched on the web where sites are selling them as both candle and Cp soap color chips. They are made of food grade coloring and stearic acid. Has anyone ever used them? I have over 60 colors and the possibilies are endless. But I want to be on the safe side and see if anyone has experienced them. TIA!

[eugenia]

As long as they say OK for soap, you are good to go. Reserve about a tablespoon of oil from your batch. Melt the chip with the oil in the micro.

I used chips this way when I was starting out and they worked just fine.

[CareBear]

ooooh I'd like to try it, cause my colors keep sweating out - maybe oil based ones wouldn't do this?

[thecandlespastore]

Thanks! I am going to try a few tonight.

[Scented]

Now they make a dye that's both candle and soap safe?

[Grumpy Girl]

I've used these before in soap. The ones I have are from Peaks and they state candle and soap safe on the package. I got a vibrant color from them that didn't fade.

[thecandlespastore]

I just tried a tiny bit of red in my Flower by kenzo soap. It made the prettiest pink, think pink ice cream. These bars will go to my sample boxes this month I am going to up it tonight to 1 whole chip because I really want a white soap with deep red swirls, like the bottle for the perfume.

I have a whole bunch of solid perfumes to do tonight, better get off the net for awhile.