Soap Business Start Up Tricks
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
Look, a soap business can make money. Now if you just want to work out of your kitchen, your potential is limited. But maybe not as limited as you might think. Many people make several hundred dollars a month working out of their homes. Especially during the fall holiday buying season, there is a big demand for handcrafted soap.
Now if you get all distracted about all the licenses and regulations you might have to deal with, you’ll never get started. So don’t let anyone distract you with all that stuff. The first thing you need to do is to learn how to make good soap and how to sell it. As far as I know, our soap business had all the permits and licenses we needed and it wasn’t difficult to do. So it’s first things first.
OK, with a few tools worth about $200, I can make 100 bars of soap in an hour. That’s start to finish.
Two days later that soap comes out of the molds and gets trimmed and put on a shelf to dry.
Four weeks later, I package that soap and it’s ready to go. My total time in making and packaging that 100 bars of soap … 3 hours. It’ll take you longer to start with. I only handle the soap three different times: mix it, take it from the molds and cut and finally package it.
OK, so that’s 100 bars…3 hours to make and package.
Handmade soap will sell for $4 – $6 per bar, depending on where you are. If you’re still with me … do the arithmetic. That’s at least $400 worth of soap you can make in three hours total and then you go sell the stuff. And I can make three batches like that per week with my cheap set-up. Let’s see … 3 times $400… And this stuff almost sells itself if you get in the right places. Can you see the potential of a soap business?
The right places can include many possibilities. I like craft shows with follow-up sales to those who buy at the shows. You can develop a mail order soap business just starting with your sales at the craft shows.
Now if you decide to do a large volume with small equipment this can turn into a lot of work in a hurry. But at a small scale, a soap business can make good business sense.
We sold over 35,000 bars of soap in about four years just working part-time making soap in the kitchen sink. Now think about that. That’s 35,000 bars of soap worth about $4 per bar!
To get the insider soap making instructions and details about starting a soap business go to The Soap Business Kit
Al Bullington and his family have made and marketed natural soap for years. Al has captured all their soap making instructions and marketing tricks in his writings.
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