Its been very cold here in California(at night). My soaps are stored on shelves in my Zen Soap room(which was my garage). The garage is getting very cold at night. Should I move my soaps out of there? This is also where I make my soaps , saponify and cure for 6 weeks.
Can anyone tell me the safe soap making shortcuts and methods to safely speed saponification and how to decrease saponification and cure times for cold process and hot process soaps so that soaps can safely be sold one (1) week after being made.
Now that we are selling our soaps in Mothers Market, I am doing a demo this weekend to sample out my soaps. Any ideas on how to set up the samples on the demo table?
Can anyone recommend a company to print my spray lables? I am going to Kinkos and they use a laser jet...but if any oil or water gets on the labels....they smear....
Does anyone have any good websites to find out where all the craft fairs/events would be? I am in Orange County, CA. I think other fairs would be great too....health expos, green expos, etc
Why do some soaps shrink more than others? I noticed that my Naked soap(olive oil/coconut oil) is the only soap that has REALLY shrunk. Why would this happen?
I want to overhaul my website. I am using go daddy for my quick shopping cart...but I feel like it looks a little cheap. What r your thoughts on my site? Who else can I use to do my site?
www.goodnightmoonsoaps.com
PS...I am totally NOT a website designer
I am going to Mothers Market on Thursday in order for the buyer to place her order.Does anyone have an example of a nice looking order sheet that I can take with me? Yes, this is my first time selling to a store.
Any advice would be awesome
Annmarie
WOW...4 weeks hugh? That helps me alot. I was just worried that after 4 weeks the soap would not be hard enough....
I am gonna do the 4 weeks......
Thank you for all your input. OH...Do I need to start paying taxes? I want to be able to claim all my receipts at the end of the year.
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I just got into my first big store. Mothers Market in So Cal. I am a bit nervous since I am a one woman show and have only been selling online. Just bought my barcodes and Insurance...yippeee
Any advice? How do I keep up? The past few weeks I have been making soap everyday to prepare for...