5 Beautiful Fall Soap Recipes- Natural Coloring and Scent - Simple Life Mom (2024)

Soap making is just fun. It’s even more fun when you can share it with others! I recently shared 5 Fall Soap Recipes with you and they are still a hit. Since it’s that time of year again, I thought it would be fun to share 5 MORE Fall soap recipes with you.

This time I want to share more on how you can color your soaps for beautiful (and natural, of course) Fall colors.

Natural Fall Colors in Fall Soap Recipes

Muted sunset colors are super easy to make naturally within soap. This makes the reds, oranges, and yellows of Fall soap recipes easy to achieve simply by adding the colors at trace.

You can get different shades or even brighter colors by adding color at different times (like adding annatto seeds to oils or spirulina to lye water), but for simplicity these 5 Fall Soap Recipes will just suggest to add the colors at trace.

Feel free to experiment with other methods suggested below. You can always use these recipes as bases to work off of. For example, use the same amounts of oil, lye, and water, but change the coloring and scents to suit your needs. Use what you have or change it up.

Use the tallow recipe if you love tallow, or use the vegan recipe if you need a vegan recipe. But use any of the colorings or scents used in any of the recipes interchangeably.

Remember, color can be added to the lye water, to the oils, or at trace. Get ALL the details of when the best place and time is to add colors in my book, Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners.

For the longest time, all I did was add colors at trace. These are a simple stir in (remove a scoop and stir in color to ensure there are no lumps. Sometimes it speckles, depending on the type of coloring, which can be very pretty as well.

Adding Color at Trace? Try things like:

• activated charcoal for grey to black
• cocoa for brown
• orange Moroccan clay for light to deep orange
• rose clay for pink to red
• alkanet root powder for purple

But you can get richer and brighter colors sometimes by adding them to the lye water or infusing them into your oils before you begin.

Adding Color to Lye Water?

• Add spirulina to lye water for longer lasting green,
• or add calendula flowers to lye water for a richer yellow.

Adding Color to Oil?

Oils tend to make the brightest colors. It’s easy to infuse oils. Simply gently heat the oil with the herb, seeds, or powder in it and then allow to cool. U that oil in your recipe. For example, if your recipe calls for olive oil, infuse olive oil. if it calls for avocado oil, then you can infuse that avocado oil. Your choice.

A Few ideas for infusing oil:

• Create beautiful oranges when you infuse paprika
• Make a creamy to bright yellow and even orange with annatto seeds
• Create a pretty green when infusing parsley powder.

5 More Fall Soap Recipes

Remember that you can find 5 Fall Soap Recipes HERE as well. So check out both articles of recipes and then choose your favorites to try.

If you are new to making soap and you need extra instructions, you can learn everything you need to know to get you going in 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners and What is Trace? or you can get one of my books here and here.

Make it or find it in my SHOP.

1) Cinnamon Roll Soap

Makes 3 pounds or 12 – 4oz bars.

Ingredients:

• 9 ounces olive oil
• 9 ounces tallow or lard
• 7 ounces coconut oil
• 3 ounces castor oil
• 2 ounces hazelnut oil
• 2 ounces cocoa butter
• 1 ounce shea butter
• 4.6 ounces lye
• 12.5 ounces filtered water
• 1 ounces cinnamon leaf essential oil
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder

Directions:

1. Weigh and combine oils, lard, and butters in a large pot and heat over medium heat until melted, and then cool to about 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh water. Wearing appropriate safety equipment, weigh lye. Go outside and add lye to water and stir until dissolved, being careful to not breathe in fumes. Let cool until it is around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. When both oils and lye water are at desired temperatures, pour lye water into oils and use a stick blender to blend on and off until very light trace.
4. Add essential oil and blend.
5. Remove 1/2 cup of soap and mix in cinnamon.
6. Pour main batch into lined mold. Pour cinnamon soap over batch in a back and forth motion.
7. Insulate for 24 hours. Remove, cut, and cure for 3-6 weeks.

Make it or find it in my SHOP.

2) Fall Sunset Soap

Makes 3 pounds or 12 – 4oz bars.

Ingredients:

• 24 ounces olive oil
• 8 ounces coconut oil
• 2 ounces castor oil
• 4.5 ounces lye
• 12.9 ounces filtered water
• 0.5 ounce orange essential oil
• 0.5 ounce cinnamon leaf essential oil
• 2 teaspoons orange Moroccan clay
• 2 teaspoons rose clay
• 2 teaspoons turmeric powder

Directions:

1. Weigh oils and combine in a large pot and heat over medium heat until melted. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh water. Wearing appropriate safety equipment, weigh lye. Go outside and add lye to water and stir until dissolved. Do not breathe in fumes that are given off for 1-2 minutes. Let cool until it is around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. When both oils and lye water are at desired temperatures, pour lye water into oils and use a stick blender to blend on and off until very light trace.
4. Add essential oils and blend until combined.
5. Separate soap batter into 4 equal bowls. Leave one bowl alone, add Moroccan clay to the second, rose clay to the third, and turmeric powder to the fourth. Stir until combined.
6. Pour colors into 2 opposite corners of your soap mold, pouring for a few seconds until switching colors. Rotate between colors to make a swirl design.
7. If desired, gently shake or turn your mold to gently mix the layers slightly (Don’t slosh it out).
8. Insulate for 24 hours. Remove, cut, and cure for 3-6 weeks.

Make it or find it in my SHOP.

3) Pumpkin Spice Soap

Makes 3 pounds or 12 – 4oz bars.

Ingredients:

• 14 ounces tallow
• 8 ounces coconut oil
• 5 ounces sweet almond oil
• 3 ounces castor oil
• 2 ounces hemp seed oil
• 2 ounces jojoba oil
• 4.7 ounces lye
• 5.5 ounces filtered water
• 6 ounces pumpkin puree
• 0.25 ounces nutmeg essential oil
• 0.5 ounces clove essential oil
• 0.5 ounces cinnamon essential oil
• 0.25 ounces allspice essential oil
• 1 teaspoon Moroccan clay

Directions:

1. Weigh and combine oil in a large pot and heat over medium heat until melted, and then cool to about 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh water. Wearing appropriate safety equipment, weigh lye. Go outside and add lye to water and stir until dissolved, being careful to not breathe in fumes. Let cool until it is around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. When both oils and lye water are at desired temperatures, pour lye water into oils and use a stick blender to blend on and off until very light trace.
4. Add essential oils, pumpkin puree, and clay to the soap mixture and blend.
5. Pour into the mold.
6. Insulate for 24 hours. Remove, cut, and cure for 3-6 weeks.

4) Evergreen Tree Soap

Makes 3 pounds or 12 – 4oz bars.

Ingredients:

• 10 ounces olive oil
• 10 ounces coconut oil
• 5 ounces cocoa butter
• 5 ounces sweet almond oil
• 2 ounces mango butter
• 4.5 ounces lye
• 12 ounces filtered water
• 0.5 ounces cedarwood essential oil
• 0.5 ounces fir essential oil
• 1 teaspoon spirulina powder

Directions:

1. Combine oils and butters in a large pot and heat to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Wearing appropriate safety equipment, go outside and add lye to water and stir until dissolved. Let cool until it is around 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. When both oils and lye water are at desired temperatures, pour lye water into oils and use a stick blender to blend on and off until light trace.
4. Add essential oils and blend until combined.
5. Remove 1/2 cup of soap and mix in spirulina. Blend until combined.
6. Pour main soap batch into lined mold. Pour green soap down the middle of the batch in one long line. Take a dowel rod and stick it into the middle of the mold. Pull toward the side and lift it out. Repeat this on both sides of the green line, making a tree pattern.
7. Insulate for 24 hours. Remove, cut, and cure for 4-6 weeks.

5) Chai Tea Soap

Makes 3 pounds or 12 – 4oz bars.

Ingredients:

• 9 ounces tallow or lard
• 9 ounces olive oil
• 6 ounces coconut oil
• 6 ounces mango butter
• 2 ounces castor oil
• 4.4 ounces lye
• 12.2 ounces tea water
• 1 Chai tea bag
• 0.25 ounces ginger essential oil
• 0.25 ounces cinnamon leaf essential oil
• 0.25 ounces clove essential oil
• 0.25 vanilla oil

Directions:

1. Make tea with the chai tea bag. Save the water and the tea bag. Weigh 12.2 ounces of the tea water.
2. Weigh and then combine tallow, butter, and oils in a large pot and heat to melt the oils. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Weigh water. Wearing appropriate safety equipment, weigh lye water. Go outside and add lye to the tea water and stir until dissolved. Let cool until it is around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. When both oils and lye water are at desired temperatures, pour lye water into oils and use a stick blender to blend on and off until light trace.
5. Add tea leaves and essential oils. Blend until combined.
6. Pour soap into lined mold.
7. Insulate for 24 hours. Remove, cut, and cure for 3-6 weeks.

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