Starting A Soap Business At Home - Tips We started selling soap and in just a few months were making a profit. By that I mean we had paid for all our start-up costs and were bringing in more money than we were spending. This all was done partly because starting a soap business at home costs so little to get started. Now here are some tips to get going with your own profitable venture. Develop Different Handmade Soap To Sell Realize that by now there is a lot of so-called natural soap out there. Very few people are unfamiliar with the concept of handmade soap. So the obvious question is, "Why buy from you?" There should be some reason to buy from you. What is it? Your approach to making soap is likely a little different than others will take. Can you in some way tell your story and show how what you do is a little different and maybe more interesting? Yes! Here's what I mean. Do you use all essential oils for scents? If you do, that sets your product apart. Are you really, really good at marbling colors? And are all your colorants plant based? If so, that is unusual? Do you make goat milk soap? Does the milk come from your goats? On the other hand, are all your soaps vegan? Do you make a castile soap as your main soap? I hope you get the idea. You can develop soap that is different. You can also communicate how your approach is different. Do this and you then have soap that can only be obtained from you. That's a good thing. That may be the only way to really sell soap in large volumes. Build soap that is different and better than what others have and you have a better chance for success. Practice Your Soap Making Skills When you get started it may take some time to develop soap that is just right, every time. After all soap making is a craft and there is some learning to be done to make soap that is perfect, or nearly so. Take the time to really get good at making soap. Whatever you do, don't get in a rush to make soap and sell it and then sell soap that is not properly cured and is flawed in some way. Look at crafting soap as a long-term venture with a lot of potential. Make great soap, even if it takes you more time to get there than you wish it did. Once you have some really great soap, what can you do with it to make some money? Get In Front Of Potential Customers For Soap Business Success You can sell soap in all kinds of ways. One of the easiest ways to move soap is to get your products in front of a lot of potential customers in a short period of time. You can do that by participating in some local events that feature arts and crafts. Certainly if you have never done anything like that, the prospect of displaying your items in front of a lot of people is a little scary. With a little practice though the scary feeling goes away. Just about any kind of local event that encourages craft displays will work for a start. Consider farmers markets, school harvest festivals, street fairs, church bazaars, or whatever. The idea here is to get your products in front of some people and make a presentation about what you have. Do that and you will likely make some sales. It may not be many but anything's a start. Here's the thing. This is just a start. Let me tell you that if you get some practice at local events then there are better shows, similar to those events, that you could possibly get into, given some time. Getting in bigger and better events as an exhibitor is one way to greatly increase what you can sell. Just getting started is key. Then what next? Make Soap They Will Want To Buy Again Key to the potential of a soap business is repeat sales. If customers actually use your soap, then over time it ends up down the drain. That's a good thing. If it's really good soap then after it's gone your happy customers will be ready to get some more. That repeat business can make a soap business really take off, without a lot of extra work. Making soap that really works well is therefore even more important than making soap that looks good. Make it really work well and customers buy again and in large quantities. That's how you make easy money. Sell soap to your existing customers without going anywhere and without a lot of marketing effort. Handmade Soap Business - Follow-Up Sales Getting those follow-up sales is key to building a real business. But, how do you get more sales from your customers? You can use a number of tools to get that done. You can develop a little brochure that each customers gets. That little brochure makes it clear how one gets more soap and other things you have. You can also develop a little catalog that you can mail to those on your customer list. That can generate easy sales. You can build a website to make ordering more soap easy. The possibilities are many for getting easy sales from your happy customers. If you develop soap that is a little different, and communicate your story, you can sell some soap. Make using the soap a really good experience and you can get some repeat business. That is one of the chief advantages of the soap business, potential for repeat business. Then it's just a matter of following up with customers and you can get some easy sales without going anywhere or putting much effort into getting those sales. It's true that starting a soap business at home requires very little time or money. A high level of soap business success mostly takes thought and a good plan.