Handmade Soap Business: How to Start Selling Online 🧼 

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I am loving all your videos! I am actually in the final stages of rebranding and launching my new skincare company. I have been making and selling soap for over 15 years and thought I would chime in on a few things that most of us reputable makers try to instill in new makers. #1 Soapmaking is a lot of work. There should be a ton of research put into what you make. #2 PLEASE PLEASE do not sell your first 10 batches! I cannot stress this enough. Practice, test and hone in your recipe. #3 NEVER use a recipe you found online without running it through a lye calculator. So many new makers want to get rich quick and use a recipe from online without making sure it is safe. #4 NEVER buy your fragrances or essential oils or base oils from anyone but a reputable vendor. So many eBay and Amazon products are adulterated. I have seen makers buy fragrance at smoke shops or the candle isle at Walmart. They are almost never skin safe and any essential oil brand that prices all oils the same is not selling you pure oils. #5 any learning channel or RU-vid tutorial that tells you your soap is ready to sell in a few days to a week is NOT reputable. Soap HAS to cure! ( unless it is true melt and pour) . Even hot process soap needs a bare minimum of three weeks cure time. Soap is like wine, the older the better. Cure allows your soap to become milder and sheds the extra water which makes it last longer. If you sell soap made a week ago it is going to melt in the shower, turn to mush and last 1/4 of the time a cured bar will last. That means you will lose repeat customers. And finally #6 get product liability insurance before you sell. If your product injures someone it’s not worth losing everything you own in a lawsuit. Soaping 101 is a goddess and she knows this craft inside and out. For insurance look into the handcrafted soap and cosmetics guild or indie business network. Always check with your home owners or renters insurance as well they can void a claim if they find out you are making product at home and they did not know. For industry information on FDA labeling rules and GMP look up Marie Gale. Read her blog and buy her books. She is our guru on everything to do to be in compliance.

Omg... I've been waiting on this... I've been making soap for 4 years and I need your course

You can actually get very creative with melt and pour. There's advantages to it. Most flowers don't brown in melt and pour like they do in cold process. Lavender seems to be an exception to that rule. Also, fragrances can change in cold process, but not in melt and pour.

Wow!! This is such a great detailed video, I really love how simple and easy you made it for people like me who are new to soap making! Thank you for making this awesome video! I can't wait to try to make some of my own!

Thank you! Such a well-made video full of great info and resources :)

thank you so much!!! I loved this video.

Thank you I really needed this!!

I have been seeking my soaps. I need more word of mouth but I am getting some good ideas from you on how to make the word get out. Thanks for the advice!

Absolutely wholesale has been life saver for me. As a soap manufacturer I can tell you, you need to make a heap of SOAPS to live off the income. Not sustainable unless you go BIG

Thank you! this was really helpful :)

Thank you this is so helpful.

Thank you so much for this video.

Helpful thank you!

Thank you for always being so open and helpful!

Hello Mei! Greetings from the Philippines. Thank you for these videos. I've just recently found your channel as I was searching about hand soaps. And now Im enjoying watching you everynight, skipping on my Korean dramas. Hehe! Your videos are very inspiring, I hope you can also make video about perfume making business as I'm interested in it too. Thank you! More power!

This was super helpful!

Thank you so much for such detailed information it would be great if u make more video on related soap business. Looking forward

Love your courses are very clear and need explained

Amazing and awesome I have started making soaps and listened with great interest.

I am struggling and I wanted to start in this business. Your video helped me a lot to think how I would like to proceed. Thanks❤

Thank you for this informative video! I am a painter and fluid artist who recently started making melt and pour soaps.

I've been making hand crafted bath and body products for about 13 years now.

Thanks for the helpful video

Hello, great video. I have been making soap for years but never sold and I finally decided to do this as I am getting ready to retire in 9 years and wanted something g to do in my retirement years, love what I do love a lot your advise. Ty.

ah, Thank you i have been wanting to start a online business for a while.

Thank you so very 🎉 I really learnt a lot from watching your this video

This is a really helpful video, thankyou I have just started making soaps and have been testing out recipes:) xx

it is so nice to find another fellow Malaysian here. I've been finding videos but most of the videos I found are catered for the states. I wanna start within Malaysia but I'm super scared

Very nice video. I will try to make my own handmade soaps. I hope to succeed

You are a wealth of information!

I've been watching your videos for a long time now I want to start my business. Can you do a video about us that sew , like zipper pouch. Thank you.

Awesome pun intro!

Royalty Soaps is awesome I love her channel.

Hi Mei, just to let you know that in the EU you do require special licences to sell soap, and they are quite expensive!

Thank you!!!! You’re an Angel 😇

Thank you!

Thanks I'm planning to make a soap business for young children audience since most bath products are for adults

What are the requirements (tests, certificates...) that Amazon requires to sell handmade soaps? Thanks for the video! 💘

I been thinking about it fba Amazon

Hi Mei. Would you mind sharing which label application machine you use please? And if it’s manual or semi automatic? I appreciate your guidance:)

Can you talk more about the amazon warehouse-ing Also should I get an LLC?

Ive never made soap before but I’ve been interested in the business 😭

Great video! If I want to open a bath bomb and bath sea salt shop on etsy, do I have to get a license ? I'm afraid of being sued if there's something wrong with the stuff I'm selling🥺🤧🤧

Hi, Mea Do you have a video about set up shopify without products? I’m not completely ready to launch but close, so I want to work on my store in the meantime and set up an email sign up for when I direct traffic to my site, Thanks

Lovely says

I’m a beginner and i would love for you to walk me though on making my own soap from scratch.

Hey i really want to start a business asap. I wanna know which will be best for me and cheap start and where to start

Bramble berry I try to order from them but the prices for me in personal thoughts are high price than Amazon or Etsy

I love soap and people always gift me handmade soap. I’m also allergic to soap other than baby soap 💀

But how to get approval for handmade soaps? Before we can sell on Amazon we need certificates or approvals I believe.

Do I need to get a business license & Name to sell my homemade facial soap?

Can I do my online soap biz in UK without any license or testing?

can you do this if you are under 18 ? also what about getting the product tested?

Melt and pour is safer at home?

I am only ten and I am starting one todayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Pls do videos on body butter

Insta is also a great place to market now

Can the melt and pour soap be sold

Do I need a license to sell?

I wanted to do this but in Europe you can’t sell cosmetics so easily... you need to have your product tested, etc. The law is quite strict...

Do I need license for bath bombs home business ?

Omg .... you're so cute.......😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍MEI PAK.......

Cool... Can I make footmade soap too? Edit: actually no.. It might smell

can I know which country are you from?

Loved this video. I've been a soap maker since 2010 coconutluxe.com.au in Australia. I'm eager now to take it to the next level. I have received amazing feedback from you Mei, I cannot wait to do your course..x Katherine

Am afraid of cold process I rather do melt and pour .. I saw people making different styles and you can play with styles.. I think we can also make it with melt and pour.. and Thanks a lot for your words it’s helpful.

Can u mentor me plz

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I’ve started a homemade skincare products on instagram three months agobut I’m having a trouble with selling the products although I can see how many saves and shares I get and yet there is zero sells. Its been frustrating, because that’s the business that I have always wanted to have and it’s not successful and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong! This is the account (glowlush.om)

What do you think about purchasing bulk/wholesale and reselling under your own label soaps, lotions, etc ?

“selling soap isn’t about huge profit margins”- well what if that is someone’s sole income source? Kind of disappointed you said that