When Your Best-Selling Items Aren't Soap...

[soapmaker]

Probably it is because they are not smelling them side by side and the smell of the DB just reminds
them of Nag. They are both deep manly smells.

 

[penelopejane]

I wrap my soap in paper. I had one soap that didn’t sell at all. Changed the paper to one I don’t like much and it is a best seller.
I can’t sell Amalfi coast FO soap at all no matter what the pattern of the soap.
I made soap dough Xmas travel soaps in cute container - didn’t sell at all. I can sell as many crochet pure cotton washers as I can make.

 

[amd]

They are both deep manly smells.

Hmmm... I need to have a chat with my men. I have one guy who buys Nag Champa, all the rest are female and my DB only sells to women. The most common comments I hear when I suggest Nag Champa or DB for men is that "It's too feminine".

 

[cmzaha]

Hmmm... I need to have a chat with my men. I have one guy who buys Nag Champa, all the rest are female and my DB only sells to women. The most common comments I hear when I suggest Nag Champa or DB for men is that "It's too feminine".

That is too funny when I sell it mainly to men. Nag will sell to women and so will DB but not at the same rate I sell to men.
Nothing is going to sell at my 2 markets, they just shut them down until further notice because of CoronaV.

 

[soapmaker]

Hmmm... I need to have a chat with my men. I have one guy who buys Nag Champa, all the rest are female and my DB only sells to women. The most common comments I hear when I suggest Nag Champa or DB for men is that "It's too feminine".

Scent is in the nose of the smeller!

 

[Kari Howie]

I used to make huge batches of soap, but I ended up sitting on a lot of them. What I have been experiencing success with is smaller, more artistic batches of limited edition scents. It creates a FOMO effect.

What is “ FOMO”?

 

[Misschief]

What is “ FOMO”?

Fear of missing out

 

[Kari Howie]

Ah! Thanks, Misschief.

 

[mishmish]

We figured out that about 50% of my sales are non-soap items: shea butter, deodorant and salves, massage oil, soap dishes, essential oils, my sewn items like neck coolers and eye pillows, except now I'm not going to any shows or markets.