At all our shows we wrap each bar individually in brown tissue paper before it goes into the bag. We use a gingham style bag, green and white check, red and white check, with our label on the front. Label has Thank You on it along with our logo, website and our location. We pay about $.10 for...
Keep in mind there is a big difference between drying and curing.
If you pour concrete on Monday you can most likely walk on it by Wednesday, it's dry.
If you pour concrete in June it will be mostly cured by July.
The longer it sits the harder it becomes.
Same principal applies to soap.
Our beer bars are round and at the center of our display so they are the ones that get noticed first. When we tell them it's soap we get "oh I thought it was cheese". Yup an open display of unwrapped cheese on a 90* day sitting for hours on end. How many you want?
Or our salt bars which are all...
If I use the "big boys" I stick with American Owned breweries. Saranac, Sam Adams, Yuengling. Craft beers for that local flavor depending on where I'll be selling at.
We have done both in our short time of selling and they are different in the aspect of the time people will spend in your booth.
At the market there are about 75 vendors at any given time and most are fruit and veggie types. When people stop at our both they do like to ask questions but then...
I want to make a round bar with a different color round center core. My thought process is to use a 4" pipe for a mold, yes I really want it that large for our "Magnum" line, in the center of the pipe I would set a 1/2" pipe with a liner on the outside. Pour the main batter into the 4" pipe...
For those of you that sell and have made the choice not to have liability insurance as it's "just a hobby" and "it's soap" my agent likes to point out that as soon as you charge for your "hobby' it became a business.
Also your soap may be the greatest thing since the merry-go-round, hate the...
Thanks Mommysoaper.
As of now we aren't doing any online sales. I too use Square and have set it up that if I'm charging say $5.50 tax included the receipt will indicate $5.09 with an additional $0.41 tax for the counties we are working in at 8%. I know the tax rates in NY can get screwy...
Believe it or not when I use soapcalc I take the results of the oils required and multiply by 1.5 and that gets me real close to total yield.
Most of my batches are 132 oz. of oil/butter. Times 1.5 yields 198 ozs. in the mold. I get 32 bars from a loaf, so 198 divided by 32 yields bars of 6.2...
I was playing around with pricing last night and you are spot on with the rounding factor to the nearest $0.25 or $0.50. It makes things so much simpler than figuring in pennies, nickles and dimes.
I think for shows I'm going with "tax included". It's simple, it's clean and even though a...