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Well, yes and no. I break my soaps into unscented and scented/essential oils. Because FO/EO cost so much I do price them differently than the unscented soaps.

Packaging costs depends upon the packaging ;) :P heheh. It can be as simple as cutting a piece of printer paper to fit around the bar and taping it in place, on up to however complicated you care to make it. For direct sales I like the idea of being able to see the soap. For the mission soap...

OK, terrible formatting! ug! Trying again.... Ingredient---Used------$/Oz------Tot$/Item Shortening... 38 oz... 0.06792.....$ 2.58096 Olive Oil........ 24 oz.... 0.17584.....$ 4.22016 Coconut Oil.. 24 oz... 0.19873.....$ 4.76952...

Personally, I would skip the color and fragrance, but I really do like pure ol' soap, so I'm biased, heheh. Also, I like the look of natural soap and I enjoy seeing the variations as I modify the recipe. With regard to fragrance some people are sensitive to those, so I'm not sure I'd personally...

Done and done. Thank you for the link and notice of the comment period!

If you could post the URL for the page, others could make a similar comment. I for one would do so. I suspect others may as well. The FDA web site is large and confusing enough having the URL would be greatly appreciated ;)

You might consider joining the Soapmakers Guild. If I recall correctly, membership is $500 per year and includes liability insurance. I'm confident many folks here are members ;)

Follow-up: I also noted on my Secretary of State web site another reason a physical address is required: being served! :P The gov't wants to know where to serve process should that be required.

This is how I read the thread. Not putting your street address on the soap label is permitted *if* a person can look up your business name in a printed telephone directory. The logic being, I assume, they can then obtain your street address from the telephone directory, which is easy once one...