AlchemyandAshes
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This isn't the first time I've seen this, but today a "fellow soaper" told me at a craft show I participated in that she went home LAST NIGHT to make more soap to sell TODAY. :Kitten Love:
I asked if she did Cold Process, and she said yes.
She said she puts a date on the label and tells them "Do not use until this date". :shock:
HOW MANY CUSTOMERS ARE GOING TO BUY SOAP TODAY, READ THAT DATE, NOT KNOW WHY THEY SHOULD WAIT, THINK ITS NO BIG DEAL AND USE THAT SOAP TONIGHT?
Here's my issues with this:
1. A lot of people don't read labels. That's their responsibility, yes, but if your selling a product before its ready to use...that's your bad.
2. Most people have no idea that soap is cured. They don't know why it's cured. So telling them its not cured yet and wait to use it is probably not going to make sense to them. You are handing them an unfinished product. Do you think they go home and write it on their calendars in 4 weeks: "I can finally use the soap I purchased last month!"?
3. Even with a steep water discount, I doubt her soaps were firm enough in 12 hours (at most) to handle without making marks and finger prints all over them, much less dents and gouges.
4. Even HP should be cured. Yeah yeah, you CAN use it right away...technically, if you gel your CP soap you COULD use it the next day or day after (we all test our own soap, right?) but the pH is going to be higher, it's going to melt right down the drain because its still soft, and your lather isn't going to be at its best. The thought of a customer using my fresh soap and either (best case scenario) finding it at subpar quality than my fully cured soap or (worst case scenario) having skin issues because of the high alkalinity of fresh CP makes me cringe :shifty:
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS A PROBLEM WITH THIS?
I asked if she did Cold Process, and she said yes.
She said she puts a date on the label and tells them "Do not use until this date". :shock:
HOW MANY CUSTOMERS ARE GOING TO BUY SOAP TODAY, READ THAT DATE, NOT KNOW WHY THEY SHOULD WAIT, THINK ITS NO BIG DEAL AND USE THAT SOAP TONIGHT?
Here's my issues with this:
1. A lot of people don't read labels. That's their responsibility, yes, but if your selling a product before its ready to use...that's your bad.
2. Most people have no idea that soap is cured. They don't know why it's cured. So telling them its not cured yet and wait to use it is probably not going to make sense to them. You are handing them an unfinished product. Do you think they go home and write it on their calendars in 4 weeks: "I can finally use the soap I purchased last month!"?
3. Even with a steep water discount, I doubt her soaps were firm enough in 12 hours (at most) to handle without making marks and finger prints all over them, much less dents and gouges.
4. Even HP should be cured. Yeah yeah, you CAN use it right away...technically, if you gel your CP soap you COULD use it the next day or day after (we all test our own soap, right?) but the pH is going to be higher, it's going to melt right down the drain because its still soft, and your lather isn't going to be at its best. The thought of a customer using my fresh soap and either (best case scenario) finding it at subpar quality than my fully cured soap or (worst case scenario) having skin issues because of the high alkalinity of fresh CP makes me cringe :shifty:
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS A PROBLEM WITH THIS?