Why aren't your soaps white?

I will never use titanium dioxide in my soap. Why not?

Other soap makers use it as a pigment to make their soaps white, however...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified titanium dioxide as a possible human carcinogen, based on studies showing lung tumors in animals exposed to respirable titanium dioxide dust (i.e. powder form). This would effect me while I am making the soap IF I used it. If soap makers are using titanium dioxide and NOT using a respirator - yikes! No thanks!

Also, the EU, their most recent Opinion (2021), the EFSA Panel concluded that E171 (titanium dioxide) could no longer be considered as safe for use as a food additive, due to uncertainties in some of the data, such as on genotoxicity (DNA damaging effects. This is yet another reason to avoid titanium dioxide, as your skin absorbs ('eats') whatever is put on it

I will not be risking my own health, or yours, so that soap can be white - sorry / not sorry! ;-)