Colored speckles for use in granular detergents

A method for making a colored speckle having a cross-sectional volume that is substantially uniformly colored by at least one coloring agent consisting of the following steps:

• (a) providing at least one salt carrier material, wherein the carrier material has an interior surface and an exterior surface, and wherein the carrier material is granulated or ungranulated,
• (b) adding at least one polymeric colorant to the at least one salt carrier material to form a carrier-coloring agent composite,
• (c) drying the carrier-coloring agent composite,
• (d) exposing the carrier-coloring agent composite to a pressure agglomeration process to form an agglomerated carrier-coloring agent composite, wherein the pressure agglomeration process is achieved by forcing the composite between two compaction rolls that apply a pressure to the composite so that the rotation of the rolls transforms the composite into a compacted sheet and/or flake, and
• (e) optionally, exposing the agglomerated carrier-coloring agent composite to a process which reduces the size and/or the shape of the agglomerated carrier-coloring agent composite.