You can incorporate some bright color into your bathing by making some dazzling neon soap! Using cold process soap making techniques and mixing in various bubble gum, ultraviolet blue, and tangerine colorants, you easily make some swirly soap at home. Get the full recipe with video tutorial here:: Neon Embed Cold Process Soap
Monthly Archives: December 2014
How to Train Other Craft Employees
There may come a time when your online soap shop might become so successful that it starts to slip through your fingers. Obtaining some hired help can ease your personal workload while making room for additional growth. However, what is the best way to train your new worker?
Before getting your employee into the full swing, be an example. Display your techniques thoroughly and allow your trainees to work hands-on to make sure there isn’t any misinterpretation later on. Give specific instructions on how certain tasks are to be done. In the beginning weeks, set aside some time allotted for training so they don’t feel rushed by learning “on-the-job.” With this in mind, you’ll create a great, dependable helper for your online business. For more about training, click here:: Training People to Be Trained By You
Smell the Holidays in Every Room with Some Christmas Potpourri
This Christmas, give the gift of sweet holiday scent by making Christmas potpourri for your friends at home and online at your craft shop. Using cloves, dried orange peel, and cinnamon sticks mixed in with Christmas spice fragrance oil, it’ll smell a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. Get the full tutorial here:: Spicy Holiday Potpourri
Bubble and Sweet: DIY Oatmeal and Honey Bath Fizzies
Give yourself or your friends the gift of a soothing but fun bath. Make your own bath fizzies as gifts or as sales products using a soap base, oatmeal and honey fragrances, and baking soda at home. It’ll create a bubbling good time! For a full recipe, click here:: Oatmeal and Honey Bath Fizzies
Protect Your Craft Customers, Protect Yourself
Selling your items online can be a thrill. It’s great to see so many people willing to purchase your craft or soap. Sadly, there are many x-factors that could turn a sale sour and could potentially get you in legal hot water. That is why writing a thorough yet easy to interpret privacy policy, terms of service, and disclaimers page is essential.
This isn’t the fun part of running you own business, but every smart business has privacy policies, TOS, and disclaimers to make sure that the customer knows exactly what to expect and how their information is to be used. This will educate the buyer on what scenarios where you won’t be held accountable. It will also spell out return policies and answer other questions without doubts. This way both your customers and you will be able to do business without an unknown issue. To read more about TOS, privacy policies, and disclaimers, please click here:: Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Disclaimers
Make Your Own Snow Globes Without Water!
A waterless snow globe is a wonderful decorative piece to have around the home for the holidays. Plus, it comes without the worry of a wet mess should the kiddos get rough. With a mason jar, a tree made out of a bottle brush, and some glitter, you can make a creative craft for your home and your friends to enjoy. For a full tutorial, click here:: DIY Waterless Snow Globe
Give Your Christmas Tree a Sweet Scent with Ornaments
You can dress up the tree and give it a sweeter fragrance by making ornaments out of beeswax! Give a plastic holiday tree with authenticity by infusing a pine, clove, and juniper scent into an easy-to-make beeswax candle. This craft is perfect as a parting gift for holiday party guests or as an additional product for your craft shop. Get a full tutorial here:: Scented Beeswax Ornaments
Crafting Your Online Business’ New Year
2014 is coming to a close. This month is a time of reflection and analyzing what we have learned and accomplished the past 12 months. It is also a perfect time to set goals for yourself and your online craft store for the upcoming year.
Grab a yearly planner and start setting goals of what you want to accomplish in the upcoming year. Set up what events you want to attend to sell your wares, what new crafts you’d like to introduce to your shop, and anything else that feels attainable within a reasonable timetable. Next, think of one big thing, whether it’s going fulltime with your craft business, expanding into a brick-and-mortar store, or whatever that may be and set up a daily, weekly, and monthly goal to slowly turn that daunting monster of an idea into a easy-to-attain reality. This is how you can honor the lessons of 2014 into the potential of 2015. For more on goal setting, please click here:: What Do You Want Your Business & Life to Look Like in 2015?
Add Christmas Cheer to Your Soaps Using Holiday Stencils
You can make a variety of soaps with snowmen, mittens, Santas, or other holiday silhouettes within in them using stencils! With you favorite melt-n-pour soap, a paintbrush, and printable stencils, you can have some seasonal soaps that make perfect holiday gifts for your soap shop customers to buy as gifts. Get a full recipe here:: Snowy Stencil Melt and Pour
Penguin Soap Ornaments Make a Great Two-For-One Gift
Give your friends or soap customers a great two-for-one gift by adding a decorative penguin tree ornament onto your iceberg-like soap! With some ribbon, eye hooks, mini penguin figurines, and your favorite wintery soap recipe, you can make this fun, convenient gift at home. For a full tutorial on penguin ornaments, click here:: DIY Penguin Christmas Ornaments