Youre a stay-at-home Mom, or a retired person, or someone who lives in an area where decent full-time jobs are hard to come by. Or youre just someone who loves to create, and would love it even more if you could recoup the expenses you put into your craft, or would walk on air if you could actually support yourself at it.
But whatever your situation, you have begun exploring the possibility of becoming a work-at-home soap maker. You love the idea of producing a natural product which will have health benefits for those who use it, and offer an alternative for over-processed, and often toxically-altered, commercial soaps.
So you want to get started, but what is the minimum you need to know before you do?
First, you need to assess you living situation and decide if you have the physical facilities to make soap making on an income-producing level. Its one thing to whip up a couple of pounds of soap for the familys use, and another thing entirely to produce it in batches large enough to satisfy demand from dozens, or, hopefully, hundreds of customers.
Second, decide which technique of soap making you will employ. As a beginner, you might be wise to...