Growing, harvesting & extracting our own Woad dye pigment to naturally colour cold process soap blue

Well it's something a little different for today! Many of you who know us know that we love using homegrown ingredients where possible in our soaps. Today we are taking things one step further and trying to create our own natural dye! Back in March 2020, we plated some Woad. Woad is a plant that is native to Britain and has been used since ancient times to create a natural blue dye, similar to Indigo. In today's video, we will be showing you how we harvest and process homegrown Woad leaves to extract the natural blue pigment. It is a long and quite involved process, so the video is quite a long one, but we hope that it will give an insight into how natural dyes can be created. In next weeks video, we will be using the dye that we manage to extract today to create our very own Woad dyed soap! If you enjoy our videos and soap making recipes and tutorials please do give us a like and subscribe :-) We will be uploading new videos every Friday and possibly the odd midweek bonus video here and there! You can also follow us and find our soaps here: www.sussexsoap.co.uk www.facebook.com/sussexhandmadesoap www.instagram.com/sussex_handmade_soap If you do head over to our website, we offer our Youtube friends 20% off purchases if you enter code "youtube20" at checkout :-)