Greetings from Bristol (United Kingdom)

[foxandmonkey]

Hello all,

Just found this forum when googling how to make beard soap! I recently began making my own beard balm and now getting ready to dive into the world of soap making too! Tonnes of questions but I'm going to read through as much as I can before asking ones that have been answered time and time again.

Best,

James (Monkey)

 

[snappyllama]

Howdy!

 

[welsh black]

Hello. You will get hooked and spend lots of money !!

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

Hello Monkey. Where in Brizzle are you from?

 

[lsg]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Seawolfe]

Hi and welcome

 

[foxandmonkey]

The Fox and I live in Montpelier in Briz. Hoping to make more than I spend but will have to see if that's fanciful thinking!

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

If you are thinking of selling soap, you have a lot to do with the EU and safety assessments and so on. There is a thread I started in the Business forum about it all.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

How is the water situation for you there at the moment? Far enough away from the issues with the burst main?

 

[foxandmonkey]

Yes safe from the burst main! We are up quite a hill from the centre so not much flooding danger. And yes have been wading through EU regulations which do seem like quite a mouthful! Any help in that regard certainly appreciated

 

[Susie]

Hey and welcome!

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

Best advice is find a safety assessor. Then work out which recipes you want to actually get approved - you can't sell unapproved recipes, so you need to invest a bit in market research to see which ones are worth paying the fee to get approved for sale. Or take a shot in the dark and risk getting a recipe approved only to find that no one buys it! Not to mention that you need to look at where you make your soap and that your practices meet the Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines.

The thread over in the forum has much more information. But it's a rabbit hole, that much is true.

I would suggest that a newbie doesn't think of selling - it's like having never made a cake before or only a few cakes and thinking of running a business making cakes! Just make soap and enjoy making soap and playing with the fun aspects of it.

 

[IrishLass]

Welcome, James! :wave:


IrishLass

 

[shunt2011]

Hello and welcome!