Handmade Soap Business - 2 Must-Haves The handmade soap business is simple to get started. You really just have to look at a couple of main areas to get started. It's so simple to get going it is a bit puzzling why even more people don't give it a try. Here's what it takes to get going. Firstly, the budding soap maker and seller must develop products that are truly fine. It's tempting to offer soap for sale before the craft has been mastered. Don't do it. It takes some practice, and quite a lot of study, to really progress to making fine soap products. The whole process of soap making is quite simple, but there are quite a few things that need to be done properly. That's why it takes some practice to be consistent in what you turn out. Listen to many people and you could get the impression that soap making is totally confusing and over complicated. Such is not the case. In fact, if you use just a few simple ingredients, you can make great soap with a minimum of fuss. Complicated processes and ingredients are not required at all. You'll notice that many recipes just use 3 or 4 main base oils. That's really all it takes. But, for best results your soap must be somewhat unique to you. That means you will need to develop your own signature recipes. This is not hard to do though. If you have your own soap, then you have something somewhat unique. That makes marketing easier. Which leads to the second factor that makes a soap business work. Soap must be marketed if you want to sell it. And it's easier to sell soap that is somewhat different from all the other people trying to sell it. If you offer something a little different, you have a better chance of getting customers, and a better chance of getting repeat sales. Handmade Soap Business And Repeat Sales That soap washing down the drain is key to an easy soap business. It's the repeat sales that make a business like this go. It's always easier and cheaper to make repeat sales than to make sales to strangers. To make repeat sales you can make it easy for people to reorder. That can be easier if you have some marketing materials like a brochure or catalog. It also goes easier if you have a website. These are easy to get, if you know where to look. Finding new customers is easier done in some more traditional ways, as compared to operating just online. In fact, getting people interested in looking at soap is actually quite simple, if you know where to position yourself. So selling soap at craft fairs is a great way to get started with marketing, and a way to build a handmade soap business, as well as a way to generate some interest really quickly. Click here to check out the SoapBizKit... There are many other ways to get going in this business as well.