making and selling homemade soap
advice on packaging homemade cookie and cake mixes to sell?
I’m looking at opening a store that sells nothing but handmade local products (useful stuff, not junk like a lot of them do) a lot of it (soaps, lotions, lip balms, bath salts, jewelry, etc.) made by me and to fill up the rest of the space in the store with consignment items or rent out shelf space to local crafters. I’d like to package some dry cookie, cake and soup mixes and sell them as well. my question is what are all the rules and regs on the food and hygiene items, and on homemade fudge and candies? all of these things will be made in a home kitchen, but would I have to have my kitchen inspected? this store will be a gift shop more or less, nothing except maybe coffee, iced tea, and samples will be served in the store, and those things will be free. any advice? I’m still googling and making notes right now, and i’m not doing anything until the economy improves, just want to get all my ducks in a row. THANKS
Your county health department is a good place to start. In my state, regs are different from one county to the next, and they are most likely to be the inspectors you need to satisfy. Usually, the kitchen (or food-prep facility) needs to be inspected, and you may be required to pass certain health tests (negative TB test, etc.) as well. Food and cosmetic/hygiene items usually need to comply with FDA labeling requirements, too.
making and selling homemade soap
How To Start A Soap Business — 5 Tips
If you learn how to start a soap business the right way, it’s one of the very quickest manufacturing businesses you can get into. See, that’s what a soap business is. It’s a manufacturing business as well as a marketing company. So there’s a lot to learn and many ways to go wrong. Here’s what to look at as you get going.
Tip 1: Get the product right.
Not too long ago I was asked to talk to a friend about what I know about starting up a soap business. Maybe that’s because the word is out among our circle of friends about all the soap we’ve moved. After the discussion, the friend discussed her plan and then showed us her product. Her idea was to make the primitive soap, which she showed us.
Folks, the days of moving crude soap at a profit are pretty well gone. You have too much competition. Learn to make professional looking soap first and then go from there. It’s easy to do, if you get the right information.
Tip 2: Imaginary scents don’t sell.
A common comment among beginning soapmakers is about the lack of smell. “Why does my soap not smell? I put in the amount called for in the recipe.” Know what you call soap that doesn’t smell? unscented soap!!! Or I refer to it as imaginary scents. Those won’t sell. Here’s the deal. You can put the right amount of scent in soap. You just have to learn how to calculate what the right amount is. Don’t trust anybody’s recipe. If they’re wrong, guess who pays? Which leads to…
Tip 3: Make it yours.
You really need your own soaps. That means something that is truly unique about your products. Otherwise your soap is lost in a sea of other homemade soap. The stuff is everywhere, much of it poorly made and poorly marketed. By now most people are familiar with homemade soap and they already have heard the pitch about homemade soap being better than commercial soap. That’s old news. What they want to know is why is yours better than the next soapmaker’s product. Sorry… That’s called competition.
Tip 4: Sell a lot in a hurry.
You could sell door-to door! But what a drag that would be. See, you have a low price item with a moderate mark-up. You must move quite a volume to make a profit. The best way to do that is to find an outlet where you can move a lot of product in a hurry at a close to retail price. There’s a way to do it and it’s worked for years.
Tip 5: Repeat is the key.
Soap gets used up, at least a lot of it does. What that means for you is repeat sales. That only happens if you stay in touch with customers. That’s easy to do if you design your sales system the right way. It’s simple as collecting some information and using the simplest of marketing materials.
A homemade soap business is easy to start and fast to get going. That’s just what my family did. Starting from nothing, we designed, produced and marketed 35,000 plus bars of soap in our spare time. We sold lots of other stuff too. There’s a demand for quality soap and people just keep using soap and looking for more.
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What would I sell for the town event?
There is this market thing that people pitch in on every year in our town. People have to make homemade things like candles, scarves, soaps, vegetables and fruits, things like that… my friends and I really want to do it next year but we don’t know what to make. What should we make???? (By the way we can’t grow things like fruits and vegetables because none of us have any sun in our yards)
For RWR, What the heck are you talking about????? I need to sell homemade things for people, like candles or something… are you talking about a book?
If you are truely concerned about the festival, then I would suggest erecting a couple of small towers, which would be mounted with mirrors.
This way, you could receive sun light in your garden, and be the talk of the town when you display your home grown plants for sale.
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