In these colder temperatures, skin gets dry and flaky. That can be easily combated with a quality shea butter. Mix a little bit of champagne fragrance oil and you’ll have a shea butter that keeps your skin moist and your mood focused on the New Year ahead. Get the full recipe here:: 12 Days of Christmas: Whipped Champagne Shea Butter
Scrub Away Years Off Your Face With This DIY Sugar Scrub
With a few simple ingredients such as cocoa butter, shea butter, rosemary extract, and various oils mixed with sugar, you can make a scrub that exfoliates and combats skin aging. It makes a great gift for your friends or as a side item in your online shop. Get the full recipe here:: Anti-aging Natural Emulsified Sugar Scrub Recipe
If Craft Selling Makes You Uncomfortable, Ask Yourself This…
While selling your soaps and crafts online is a good way to make sales, there is still money to be made in face-to-face encounters at a market or craft expo. However, while you do want to profit from your work, the salesman aspect might stick in your craw. Even the word “sales” can bring up images of sleazy men in leisure suits trying to sucker a person into a Pinto.
If this image turns you off from face-to-face sells, then look at it from a different perspective. Ask yourself, “If this person buys my item, will their life improve?” Also ask, “Once this interaction with this person is over, will the world be a better place than when you began?” If the answer to both is “yes,” then there is nothing to be concerned about. You’re giving a good product to good people. There’s nothing shady or shameful in doing that. For more on this perspective, click here:: When You’re Selling, Always Ask Yourself These 2 Questions
Yes, You Can Make It With Duct Tape
There a bunch of various crafts for you, your kids, and for you craft shop that use duct tape as the primary material. Pencil pouches, Dry-erase gift tags, school supply caddies, and even coffee sleeves can be made with the versatile tape. Get inspired with a full article and how-to’s here:: 10 Duct Tape Projects You’ll Be Sure to Love
Rejuvenate Your Bath with Refreshing Mint
A hot bath is the perfect thing for these cold winter months. However, a hot bath with minty bath salts can provide a relaxing yet invigorating experience. With some sea salt, Epsom salt, baking soda, and mint fragrance, you can make your own minty bath salts for you, your friends, and your online soap shop customers. Get the full recipe here:: 12 Days of Christmas: Minty Layered Bath Salts
Want Better Soap Sales? Get Personal
It can be tough to sell soap and crafts out there at the market or craft expo. Getting a good spot, creating a welcoming atmosphere can help, but there is one thing that can help generate the most sales. That one thing is you.
You don’t have to change who you are, but take a good look at yourself and judge how you might appear to others. Dressing up a little bit can show customers that you are putting on an effort. Make sure that you greet each customer and make eye contact. You don’t have to put on a show, but engaging with customers as they enter lets them know they are acknowledged and you’re there to help them if they need it. Lastly, pay attention to your customer. Ignore the phone calls, leave your book at home. If you appear not to care whether or not you make a sale, the customer won’t care about your product. Keeping these things in mind will hopefully create a great customer base for your soaps and other crafts. For a full article on this topic, click here:: 3 Simple Ways to Be a Better Salesperson
This Year, Give the Holiday Gift of an Envigorating Hot Bath
A bottle of homemade bath oil can make a fine, unique Christmas gift for your friends, family, and customers of your soap shop. Using some lavender essential oil and a carrier oil of your choosing, you can treat others to a lovely, relaxing trip in the tub. For a full tutorial with ideas for oils, click here:: Easy Homemade Bath Oil Recipe for the Holidays
Scrub and Bubble with the Sweet Scent of Pears
You can make quality, organic hand soap for yourself or your customers using delicious pears. With some oils and using cold process soap making, you’ll have some fresh bars of sweet pear scented soap. Click here for the full recipe:: Natural Pear Soap Recipe
Create Quilted Christmas Ornaments for Home or Your Craft Shop!
With some fabric scraps, scissors, and a sewing kit, you can create quality ornaments to hang on your tree using quilting material. Make some lovely red and green Christmas tree designs to deck the halls. For a full how-to, click here:: Quilted Christmas Ornament Tutorial
Tips to Attract Bloggers to Your Craft Product
Craft and soap bloggers are always looking for the newest item or product to feature. It gives the blogger content to write about and it also gives you a showcase to show off your work to prospective customers. So what can you do to attract bloggers to your wares?
First, make sure that your craft or soap is actually worth writing home about. A unique design, high value, originality, and personality always win out over normality. Also, be sure you have high quality photos of your craft products. This not only can help sales at your store, but also attracts the eyes of the bloggers and writers. There’s also no shame to approach a blogger that you enjoy, introduce yourself, ask if he or she would do a feature on you or your product, and send them a link with pictures. It can definitely help you promote your stuff. For a full article on this topic, click here:: 5 Things Bloggers Look for When Choosing Work To Feature