Oxide - Red (liquid)

Red Oxide is a flat, brick red pigment suspended in vegetable glycerine. This product produces muted, natural shades of colour and is a cosmetic grade colourant that is stable and non-bleeding in soap..

Add colour to your base drop-by-drop. Adding more drops will produce a darker colour. If your soap bubbles are not white you have used too much colour. Adding this colour to white melt and pour soap will produce a a pink pastel coloured bar of soap.

INCI: Glycerine, Iron Oxide

Usage rate: 15ml will colour approximately 5kg of soap for a medium shade. Recommended usage rate is roughly 3-6 drops per 100g (6 drops for a medium shade).

Product Suitability:
Melt and Pour Soap: Yes
CP soap: Yes
Lip Products: No
Cosmetics: Yes, but not the eyes
Not suitable for oil based products such as lotions and creams.
Not Suitable for Bath Bombs, Bubble Bars and Bath Salts as it can cause staining.

Performance results:

Colour: Produces a matt brick red colour in clear m&p soap base and a pastel pink colour in opaque (white) m&p soap base. Produces a nice brick red in cp soap at full strength
Solubility: dispersible in water so suitable for water based products such as soap. Not suitable for oil based products such as lotions and creams.
Product pH: Stable in products with a high pH so it will not change / morph in cp soap.
Colour Fading: This colour is not sensitive to light so will not fade in your soap.
Colour Migration: This colourant is non-bleeding so is suitable for making soap with layered colours or embeds as it will not migrate or “bleed” between the layers.

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