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[Megamister]

Hi everyone, I happen to be on looking up soap making ideas and saw this forum. Believe it or not, this is the first time EVER that I have been on a forum. So please have patience with me. I might not know what I'm doing!!!!!
Trying to start a little business on the side for my daughter who is Aspergers and needs to do something during the day. It was actually her idea to come up with making soaps!!!! I'm trying to help her out as much as I can so we can get this up and going!!!!
Any ideas???? We need to pick a name first

 

[shunt2011]

Hello and welcome. There’s a lot of great information and members here. It’s great you would like to make a business but, it’s highly recommended you learn to make soap first. Read some of the stickies. It can take a year or longer before even thinking of selling. You need to make many many batches and recipes then you need to test them and see how they perform and hold up. You need to know your soap will last 3, 6 or 12 months without going rancid. Then there’s licenses, insurance etc... not to mention. That the soapmaking market is over saturated and it can take a long time to get a clientele little lone male money doing it.

This is not a cheap hobby, little lone a business.

Learn to make soap and enjoy the process and the rewards as you learn. You’ll have good batches but also some bad ones.

Feel free to ask questions. We welcome new members and are willing to help out.

Start with small batches so if something goes wrong you don’t have 5 lbs do something you don’t like

Can’t wait to see what you produce.

 

[lsg]

Why not start your daughter with melt & pour soaps. In my area, soap making is a crowded market. One needs to have a website and go to many craft fairs and farmer's markets. My grandson has high functioning aspergers. I know that presents a lot of challenges. An acquaintence of ours has started an egg selling business for his son who is autistic. They sell eggs to many of the local markets and stores. They had to get a license and inspect all of the eggs before selling. Of course they have to have a space for enough hens. That would present a problem for someone who doesn't live in a rural area.