I choose those products for now because I happen to be very low on stock compared to usual. The only flower soaps I have left have never sold (though the cedar soap in small bar was in my top 3 sellers until I ran out, more are curing in all 3 shapes) and the large bars are new and I haven't sold any yet. Another reason I put just small ones for now and that I make such small bars is that they cost infinitely less to ship because with Canada Post, anything 20mm or less in thickness ships for a fraction of the price, even if the weight is the same. This means I can ship 8 small bars (400g) for a fraction of the cost of shipping 1 large bar or flower soap, so it's been by very far my most popular shape since I introduced it by allowing customers to save a fortune on shipping while getting as many grams of soaps as with larger soaps that cost much more to ship.
I have several batches of soaps curing (olive oil, orange salt soap, cedar pumice salt soaps, all in the 3 shapes) and will be adding more variety and also probably one each of my large bar and flower in the featured products once I have photos of them.
Speaking of photos, I also have never been happy with my soap photos and I keep trying different backgrounds, camera settings, and even made a light box for the current photos on the website. It's strange because for "normal" photos (people, scenery, etc.) people always say I take really good photos, but for product photos I just can't get anything that looks good. I had tried natural lighting but the problem with that is that I always have to wait for a sunny day otherwise different photos have different lighting and I prefer to take photos when I'm ready to take photos, not when the weather is, which is why I made the light box. The reason the small soap photos show a lot of background is because it shows the difference in size between the 3 shapes I sell, at first I did zoom more into the small ones, but then they look as big as the big ones for which I need to zoom out and I thought that was misleading. Isn't it better to use the same zoom/distance for all shapes so that the difference in size can be seen in the photos?
Does anyone have tips for taking good photos using the light box I built? I will try taking them from a lower angle.
OliveOil: What would be the benefit of selling the small bars as a set rather than let the buyers make their own set by adding the different ones they want to the cart? I appreciate the comments on the photos and agree they are far from good. About buying a small one and a large one, that prevents the benefit I explained above that ordering only small ones allows the order to ship for a fraction of the cost, as soon as you add anything other than just small bars, the shipping can almost quadruple depending on the destination and weight.