$40k for a soap/lotion business?!

[navigator9]

If I were starting a soap business, and money was not a problem, I'd head somewhere like this, http://soapequipment.com/ , put together my dream soap studio, buy oils and butters, and drums of FOs. I can imagine spending 40K on all of that. But that's not how most people start out. They start on a shoestring and see how things go. That was quite a leap of faith.

 

[boyago]

The original business operator may have also quit her job to pursue her own business and the money could have gone to covering living costs during start up.