Moisturize and treat dry skin with a succulent scent of chocolate and rose petals. Using some cocoa absolute and rose essential oil with beeswax, you can make your own Chocolate Rose Body Cream that will perk up the skin of your soap customers and your friends. Get the full recipe here:: DIY Natural Chocolate Rose Hand and Body Cream Recipe
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Homemade Detoxing Skin Polish
If you really want to deeply clean and exfoliate your skin, look no further. Using sugar, charcoal, bentonite clay, coconut milk powder, and a couple botanicals, you can have a homemade detoxing, exfoliating skin polish that can draw out impurities and scrub off dirt, oil, and dead skin cells. Get the full recipe here:: Exfoliate & Detox Skin Polish DIY
Don’t Forget to Include ‘Relax’ Into Your Soap-Making Schedule
Creating and running an online soap shop is a labor of love. You love making fresh soap for customers and coming up with new ideas for products. You even enjoy the busyness of running your own business, filling out orders, and running your social media. However, too many soap crafters burn out too quickly. You have schedule some time for yourself.
Take some time every day to meditate on your success. Enjoy a good book for 20 minutes. Go out for a run or go to the gym. Business owners have to take care of their employee, so start with you yourself. For more on taking a breath and enjoying success, click here:: Celebrate. Plan. Succeed.
What’s a Better Gift Than a Soap Bar Shaped Like a Gift Box?
You can make any of your craft soaps look like a gift wrapped with a bow! Using your favorite melt-n-pour soap recipe and adding a little bit of glycerin, you can make soap bendable enough to shape into some decorative bows. Get the full tutorial with pictures here:: Melt & Pour Soap Ribbons
Save Money, Soothe Skin with Homemade Salve
You can make some quality all-purpose salve at your home and save some money! With some cocoa butter, beeswax, coconut oil, and shea butter, you can make a natural, unscented salve to treat and moisturize your hands, feet, and lips. Get a full recipe here:: DIY Handmade All Purpose Salve Recipe
Don’t Be Discouraged! Experiment with Your Soaps!
You’ve answered your calling and have decided to make your own soap! This is exciting and you’ve mastered making soap from established recipes. Now you’ve tried to make an original soap of your own design and recipe… and it stinks. Really bad.
Don’t get discouraged! None of the established recipes that you have used to perfection were perfect to begin with. Try again using different amounts of materials or replacing certain scents with others. Experimentation is a part of the fun and making an original soap can put your craft shop on the map. For more on soap experimentation, click here:: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Soap Soap Again!
A Mosaic Box is a Treasure Box for Treasures
With some mixed resin, mini-tiles, and glitter, you can decorate a wooden box to create a lovely mosaic pattern. This makes a lovely gift for friends or craft shop customers to store jewelry, keys, love notes, or other treasures. Get a full tutorial here:: Mini Mosaic Box
Give Your Hair Some Zing with Ginger & Lime Shampoo
With some jojoba oils, babassu oil, argan oil, and some ginger and lime fragrance, you can make a shampoo bar that will revitalize your hair. The ingredients in the bar make for a find face wash as well. Get the full recipe to make some bars for yourself and your soap shop customers here:: Ginger and Lime Homemade Shampoo Bar Recipe with Silk
Making Your Craft Soap Shop Focused
Have you ever gone into a specialty store and wonder, “Why do they sell that?” For example, years ago Sharper Image, a store best known for top of the line electronics, sold Trump Steaks at their stores. An electronics store sold meat. Doesn’t make sense does it? That’s why Sharper Image stopped selling steaks.
The point is this: don’t sell steak when you sell soap. There are too many craft shops that lose focus and try to sell things that won’t appeal to the customers you bring in. So take a look at your inventory and honestly ask yourself if one customer would feasibly be interested in buying at least one of everything you sell. If your ideal customer you are trying to win over won’t consider it, toss it from your inventory. For more details and tips on how keep your craft shop’s focus, click here:: How to Create a Cohesive Shop
Make Shower Time Sweet with a Lemon Poppy Sugar Scrub
Exfoliate your skin while treating it with lemon. You can make your own lemon poppy sugar scrub at home using granulated sugar, essential oils, and poppy seeds. This makes a great gift or addition to your online soap shop. For a full recipe for this refreshing scrub, click here:: Natural Creamy Lemon Poppy Seed Sugar Scrub Recipe