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Oh my gosh you wasting so much water letting the tap just run like that as you soap your arm full stop please be mindful of water conservation we should also be responsible

How do I thicken 100% coconut liquid soap?

Thank you so much for this sincere advice. Really need to hearing this. I’m trying to launch but I think it is to less or too much ??? Etc and it’s overwhelming. this video it’s an answer to my prayers .

Nice video. But do we need to add the preservative? Could you please explain it 😊

Great video, thanks for sharing, when would you add vitamin E to the oils if you wanted to use it? Thanks God Bless You.

I totally agree the lufah!😁. I'm a soap maker, and my soaps lather great with a lufah!❤

You asked a lot of questions I can’t remember them all 😂 I only do weekend trips so I just leave my site open. I hope I can leave for a week someday! 🤞 even then I’ll probably just put a banner on my site that says orders will ship XX date . I don’t move stuff around either unless it’s not working. I missed where you said you went - was it Disney?? I’m weird and I have no desire to go there 😂 but Mexico yes please. I answer messages at all hours but only when I feel like it lol if I’m not in the mood it’ll wait until the next day. Im all over the place with no schedule 🫣

It hold so clean, bright and open! Congrats on giving yourself a space to do your passion! Excited to see your market vlogs

I'm loving it, it looks great!

congratulations! Looks amazing. get some rest, share more about your Disney vacation, would love to hear more about it!:)

The studio looks great! I love the giant calendar I bet it’s really helpful to have the whole year laid out like that ❤

Loved this honest and insightful video! Your tips on starting a soap business and sharing what worked and what you’d do differently are incredibly valuable. Thanks for helping fellow entrepreneurs! 🌟 #SoapBusiness #EntrepreneurTips #Inspiration

Why do we need a preservative in it

I started with Etsy too but now primarily do farmers markets. It's so nice to meet people and get to know what they are actually looking for - it's helped immensely! Labels, labels, labels. They are always changing. Oh m gee. So many little details and design changes.

Hi Danielle, I appreciate your honesty so much. I have the same struggles and knowing I am not alone is very comforting.

I love Soapmaker 3 and wouldn't be without it. If someday they expanded it to be a full service bookkeeping software with website integration I'd be their spokesperson for life 😂. I'm an accountant by day, and I keep track of all sales and finished inventory on my website, all my formulas, raw materials, and cost of sales on SM 3, and then do my full bookkeeping on sage 50. It's annoying but going into year 3, I've worked out the kinks without too much duplication.

Great advice! I feel I have done everything backwards. I’m still learning a lot after 20 years. I’m looking for a good starter shampoo bar, any good shampoo bar recipes to purchase you like?

I have soap maker 3 and I love it! I haven’t had the time or website do about intergrading websites. Had a lot of family troubles. I need to get back to doing more.

Great video!

Hi Danielle, I'm a small business that started 9 months ago and I've been trying to figure out when is the right time to start doing farmers markets for businesses that aren't earning too much yet -- because they can be quite expensive to get started as I've seen in their application forms (vendor fees for the whole season, insurance, renting or buying a tent, displays and signage). It was helpful to hear your thoughts on the goal of earning 10x your vendor fee.Would you say it's a worthwhile risk for a business who is just barely getting by from a financial perspective, to take the plunge into spending on all the costs associated with the market?

I understand totally. Marketing is not my thing. I feel like I have hit a wall. As far as numbers estimate to sell, it's a crap shoot lol. I want this full time in 4 years but have a long way to go! Thank you for this video, it is good to know we are not alone in our feelings.

I am by no means an expert, but listening to you it sounds like are too "exclusive" with your line. I feel you can do both natural and expand with other products. There is no reason you can't have different lines....your "natural" and then some fun fragrances and micas or essential oils and natural colorants. This way you can expand your product line and people are happy with handmade products, knowing what is in the items they are buying etc. Hope this helps

I’m prepping for a Mother’s Day market and I’m burning myself out with it 😫 I’m making tons of new product which I need to do, but I think just doing it all so much and at once is too much for me. This is more of a hobby for me but whew.

You have no idea how much I needed to hear what you had to say in this video. It helped me more than you can imagine. I have wondered so many times if I am the only one who has these very thoughts and feelings regarding what I'm trying to do. Hearing your honesty and transparency absolutely brought me a major sense of peace! Thank you, thank you for just keeping it real!

This video was for me and how I felt the past year. I decided not to do wholesale this year and focusing on retail only this year. I'm also limiting my vendor markets to mostly farmers markets and popups that i've done already. I dropped 8 scents from my candle line. I'm going back to my minimalist lifestyle so other than my top sellers everything else is made to order. I'm keeping my cost low as possible this economy is going to get worse than better!

How much are your soaps? I mean each single soap

This is what I do to with canva and maestro. I need to get adobe. I do not use that step. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for the tips, I use Online Labels and I'm definitely going to download the Adobe reader. I've been wondering how to get into the settings to up the quality of the label printing. Thank you for the help! :)

Love the swirls!

I like watching how you make your soaps and I like narrative. I watch Ellen Ruth Soap and Jerika from Quenchbear and have been following them for years.

Just found your channel today, Danielle. Love the soaps I’m seeing.

Such a lovely soap stamp on here! Would love to hear you narrate-love that swirl!

That soap looks beautiful!!!

It's beautiful just the way it is. The eo blend sounds gorgeous too.

Beautiful Label! ❤❤❤ I wish here in Canada we could advertise the benefits of our products on our labels 😞

How much witch hazel do you use? Thanks!❤

Labeling is the bane of my existence. If I could outsource anything, it would be that. Nothing EVER goes right. Just last night I spent about an hour getting some labels together only for my printer to print out ONE page and then be out of ink. I personally have always had trouble too with online labels getting to print correctly. Since I switched to Avery they print out fine, you know, if one of any 100s of other things doesn't go wrong.

It's funny you talk about change, in big box stores, I don't even notice it. I just gloss over it and round it up in my head lol. I guess that's why I just round up the price of my own products.

We added a 12x20 room on the back of our garage. I love it! It is my soaping studio. I have a double stainless steel sink area with counter space, upper and lower cupboards, packing station, office station with desk top computer and 2 monitors, long counter with cupboards, stainless steel table, space for my bakers drying rack, and 3 IKEA Ivar shelf units. It’s awesome!

They look good! Could you maybe pour smaller amounts into each section so the first doesn't bow out? Then continue to fill each evenly? I've seen it done with crisp lines, but probably takes some practice. Thank you for sharing your video!

I think they came out really nice and straight considering the bowing! Running a hanger swirl through the design, back and forth long-ways would be really pretty!

Hello Danielle, I have a question about the size of the label that goes on the box? Am working on labels trying different options. Thank you.

Hey! I went to click on the link for the scanner and it's the same link for the charging portal! Just wanted to let you know! I've done that also in my videos lol! Thanks!

Oh my gosh! This is so helpful! Right now I am doing the same thing using Shopify for online and square for in my farm store & events but trying to figure out how to utilize Shopify for both and the bar codes are genius! Thank you!!!! ~jc

I would love to see a video on inventora, I am just getting started trying to turn my bath and body making hobby into a business. I currently have inventora and have played with it a little but I have so many ingredients I am feeling a little overwhelmed. Thanks for your content! ❤

Very Pretty Soap and a nice scent blend. I liked how you said lemon essential oil doesn't stick very well. Only certain citrus essential oils stick very well in soap as I am learning. Lemongrass is a great alternative to lemon in your scent blends as you stated. I have learned that for citrus soaps I like to use Orange 5 Fold, May Chang, Lemongrass, and Persian Lime sticks well for me in my soaps.

I love it all and I love watching Jerika & Ellen Ruth soap

Such a beautiful soap and I love your channel. I have learn so much.

Could you talk about what products you take to the markets. It looks like you have a nice variety of products. I mainly have soaps and candles. Sometimes I think I have so many different soaps it actually overwhelms the customer. I am always creating a new soap and trying to sell them. I also have little room to display other products because the soaps are taking up so much room. Do your customers buy mainly soap or do they buy a lot of your other products. I might need to change my strategy to make more sales.