Taking your Soap To a Farmer’s Market Surviving the farmer’s markets and day markets as a soap maker can be a challenge. When you’re considering taking your soap to a farmer’s market, choosing the right market and where you set up your tent is essential. After talking with several market vendors who have been doing…
A month ago, while I was selling my soap at a day market, a lady approached me and invited me to be the soap vendor at an art festival. She told me I would be a perfect fit. I had not heard of this festival before and I was already booked into a day market…
Natural Gums are a great way to thicken your natural liquid soap and cosmetics. This ingredient has been used for centuries. Most natural gums are Carbohydrates and they help to improve the stability of your products. Some sources for these gums include plant seeds, marine algae and sap. Acacia Gum also known as Gum Arabic…
Adding Botanicals and Extracts to your products is a wonderful way to increase the benefits of your creams, beauty products and natural soap. This has been happening for thousands of years, all over the world. Most of the time, the reasons for adding the botanicals and extracts in commercial products are for the promotional benefits…
Sustainable Palm Oil. What does this mean? The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was formed in 2004 with the following goal: promoting the growth and use of sustainable oil palm products through credible global standards and engagement of stakeholders. So who is involved in the RSPO? That would be Palm Oil Producers, Traders, Retailers,…
Soap Making – How to Sell Your Soap At A Craft Show So many Soap School Members have asked me what to do about getting their soap out there, where do you go once you have soap inventory. This is a huge topic, so I will do several segments on how to sell your soap….
This is Uttuh She is an Indonesian Orangutan who was rescued from a palm oil plantation by a wildlife organization. They think that her mother was probably killed, since Uttuh was left in the middle of the plantation road. When they found her, she weighed 8 lbs, but now she is 16.5lb. She is completely…
How to Keep The Scent in Your Soap Losing the scent from your soap is a real problem that all soap makers face. I’ll walk through the steps on how to keep the scent in your soap You have unmolded and cut your fresh soap, you have let it cure and set, now it’s ready…
The other day I was in a cellular phone store waiting for a sales person to help me. It took about 15 minutes so I watched a program on their store screen. I thought at first it was a video on Nature in the Rainforest. A few minutes later it turned into a show on…
I love spiders, I think they are wonderful and useful creatures that keep all of the annoying insects in line. This is a picture of one of my spiders. He looks like he is on holidays with a picture of Mexico in the background. I really think they are beautiful, but when they grow to…
I just finished making some Organic Liquid Olive Oil Soap, and just wanted to comment. If you are a soap maker and have never tried soap making with organic oils, you really don’t know what you are missing. I don’t know if it’s psychological, but the oils just seem different. They act differently, they are…
Natural cleaning is becoming a big hit in so many people’s households. There has been a big push towards environmentally friendly and safe products, that it’s becoming main stream and we can see more and more natural cleaning products on the grocery store shelf. People are choosing natural products because of the environmental cost and…