Hello everyone. I would just like to thank everyone for being so patient with our soaps during this time. I hope everyone is staying inside and staying healthy during this rough time. With that being said we haven't had a whole lot of time to discuss our new ideas with each other.
Today I'm going to talk about the different products that we use and how we use them. Maybe this will seem interesting and fun to you and you can make some cool soaps over the break. One thing we use are essential oils. We use these if someone wants a soap that has a very subtle smell, such as lavender and peppermint. We have started using a lot more soap scents. The soap scents allow us to make soaps with more of you everyday scents such as, different types of fruit and just normal scents. Another thing we use are plastic soap molds. We like to use these because they are very simple shapes and if we're being honest, the plastic molds are the easiest to get soap out of after they've cooled. Although, we have found that cookie cutters are very fun to work with!! They are able to give us so many more awesome designs to work with. Even though it is a little harder to get out, it's worth it. When we use the cookie cutters were have to wrap it in tin foil so that they liquids don't get out, but when you take it out you can see all of the tin foil marks on the bottom. So to get that off we decided to use a vegetable peeler It actually works so good. I highly recommend a vegetable peeler if you need to smooth your soap out. We have soap dyes that we use to color the soaps that we make. We only buy three colors at a time because we can mix the colors to get different shades or even completely different colors. Oh my gosh, I almost completely forgot! We use a melt and pour soap base. There are all different kinds of bases you can choose from. We mainly use glycerin and goat milk base.
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Welcome back everyone!
This is officially our first week being in quarantine and not being able to see each other or be at school due to this whole Coronavirus thing, and let me tell you I sure do miss seeing these ladies! Although not being able to get together we have worked on our own trying to make new soap and new designs as we stated in the previous blog. The process of making more improved and more challenging soaps by ourselves had been going good, but it's had it's downfalls and challenges as well. Each member of the group has their own stuff to make soap, but one of us has more of something than the other. That is why it is easier and we get more soap made when we are together rather than when we are alone. Along with the challenging designs, we stuck to more simple designs that we have done all along that we knew we could do. We hope to get together soon after this panic has calmed down some and get back at trying harder things. Well, it's been a real hectic week with this whole coronavirus thing spreading. Let me tell you, that just gives us a whole lot more time to work on this project and we are taking advantage of it. We also got some super cute soap molds that are more aesthetically pleasing. Of course we had to test them out, and let me just tell you they are SUPER cute. People seem to love them, we got a message from two people right after we posted on our story. They're selling quick so don't miss out!! So far we have sold $108 worth of soap! That is already way more than we thought we would have sold throughout the whole project, let alone just week 3.
After evaluating everything we have had to buy for the process of making the soaps, our profit comes out to about $70 which is insane! We want to say a special thanks to everyone who has purchased soap from us so far, and we will be having new soaps available soon so it's not too late to buy some! See y'all next week! Welcome back everyone!! We're very excited to share with you all what we have been up to this past week! This weekend Katy and Kaitlin went over to Bailey's house and for almost three hours all we did was make soap and packaged the soap and sold the bars we made! We didn't really come in with a plan on what we were going to do but we eventually figured it all out. We began by making bigger and less complicated designs using the actual soap molds we have purchased at the craft store, but after about five bars made Bailey came up with the idea of using cookie cutters on a baking sheet to make different and more unique designs. We ended up making seventeen bars of soap with many different scents and colors. After making the soap we began to package what we made, and later that night we ended up selling all the bars we made earlier that day to a couple different people. We have also sold a few bars to our friends before we had met up with each other. As of right now we have sold $64.00 worth of soap. Our prices range from two to six dollars depending on the size and amount of soap sold in each unit. We have made a bigger profit in week two than we had thought we would. Before the next time we get together we hope to buy more options in the scent field and maybe more options in the color field. We hope to have more variety before the end of this project. Can't wait to show y'all what we make next week and what has changed from this week to the next!
See ya next week!! Hey y'all!! This blog post is just going to be an introduction to our project and how we are going to do it. By the title you can tell that it has something to do with soap, not just any soap, we are going to be making all different kinds and shapes in hopes to sell them and to make a profit. So our project is making soap! We hope to get together every week and make some new soaps together!! We all bought different supplies so we will have a variety of different materials to use, such as molds, essential oils, soap glitter, soap base, and so much more!!!
What we have to do to make this work is time management, work ethic, communication, and just staying on top of things. We have 12 weeks to make as many soaps as we can and to learn different skills to make sure we stick to our plan. We will be using google sheets to keep track of our sales, expenses, and our profit. This website is going to be used to post weekly about what we are learning and if we are failing or improving. What's also nice about this website is that y'all can comment. So feel free to make a comment if you have any suggestions or if you just want us to try and make something that you think would be cool. We can't wait to start posting all of the soaps we are making together and to show y'all our progress!! Se ya next week!! |
AuthorsKaty Zwanzig, Bailey Snow, Kaitlin Mischler Archives
May 2020
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