When you think wood grain, you think brown, beige and black. Once you get a hang of the technique, its probably quite simple to achieve a wood grain soap with these colors – using Natural colorants.
But if you want to be a little hard on yourself, you choose to make a soap using the limited set of soap colors you recently won. (All thanks to the Amy’s August challenge – Dancing funnel)
My choice of colors were random contrasting colors because this was the first time I’ve tried them in soap. I had no idea what the end result would be.
Purple Raspberry, Rocket Red and Yellow Oxide. Scented with Burnt Wood fragrance.
The freshly poured soap did look vaguely wood-like and I was satisfied.
However, once the soap was cut and the ash removed, I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Rich, brilliant purple wood grain!
Would you imagine a tree on the planet Earth with wood grain in these colors? Well, you don’t have to imagine, because apparently they do exist.
Don’t believe me? Read more about the Purple Heart or Peltogyne tree
This picture reminds me of the Magical Faraway Tree in the Enchanted Forest! (who else remembers this tree?)
“The trees are prized for their beautiful heartwood which, when cut, quickly turns from a light brown to a rich purple color.” – exactly what my soap did 😉
Moral of the story – Just allow your soap to just do what it wants, because it will anyway! And you WILL love the results!!
It’s just gorgeous!! I love that it’s not the traditional wood color. I had imagined what this technique might look like with something completely different – like blue, even! The purple is great though!
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Thanks Amy! I was just going for bright colors which may look like wood. Imagine my surprise when I realized that nature beat me to it 😀 lol
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Beautiful soap!
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You did a great job with the purple heart wood!! Whether you meant to or not!! LOL!! I had actually considered that wood for the challenge, but then changed my mind. It came out beautiful Aruna!!
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Thank you
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I had never heard of Purple Heart wood – I had to click on the link to check it out! (Thanks for adding that!)
Purple is my favorite color and I really want to do a wood grain in that color…thanks for doing one for me to give me some great ideas!
Yours turned out beautifully!!
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Thank you! I had never heard of Purple Heart either,until after making this soap. I was looking for naming inspiration and came across this information:)
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Such vibrant colours ! Such beautiful grains ! Loved your soap, Aruna ! All the best ! 🙂
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Thanks Priya:)
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Remarkable soap, and a remarkable tree! What an awesome result you got.
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Thank you
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Very creative, totally love the colors!
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Thanks!
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WOW! Beautiful colours! So unique! I love this soap 🙂 ..and it does look like the wood of the peltogyne tree (!)
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I would so love to see this wood in real! Thanks
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Those colors are so stunning to me (then again, red is my favorite color and I’m highly partial to purple). And I thought it was so cool how your soap turned this color and you were able to find a reference to the heartwood. So neat!
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Those are my favourite colours too 🙂 thanks
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Wow! this is such a gorgeous and vibrant soap, Aruna! Congrats on another great soap challenge entry and thanks so much for sharing your process. All the best! 🙂
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Thank you
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Purple heart is beautiful wood, and your soap recreates the colors so perfectly!! You even captured its subtle sheen!
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Thanks so much 🙂 I doubt I could have done this if I’d planned
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The colors turned out so rich! Really pretty soap, Aruna!
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Thank you
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I thought you’d planned it from the start! I’d heard of that awesome wood, and absolutely love seeing someone do something outside the norm. Happy accidents, neh? Outstanding job. 🙂
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Totally!! I love happy accidents 🙂
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Very Nice! Love the color scheme 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Sooo Pretty! Super choice on the colors and it does look like purple heart wood 🙂
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Thank you!
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Purple Heart wood is so pretty, and your soap is perfect. Great colors.
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Thanks:)
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