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Work at Home; Choosing a Handmade Soap Maker
By: Jeffrey Dorrian
One of the more popular work at home businesses is the handmade beauty business. Handmade lotions, soaps, creams and salts have become all the rage lately. An efficient easy way to get started in this business is to specialize in one item and buy the other items from a private label wholesaler in order to complete your line. Seeing how soap is the most complex item to make we will concentrate here on the qualities a soap maker should have in order to make a
reliable supplier for your fledgling business.
There are many subcategories in the
handmade soap making field. These are based on the method used to produce the soap. Cold processed, hot processed and melt and pour are the three most popular methods. When comparing modern methods with old fashioned soap making, cold processed would be considered the most similar to methods used in Europe. These same methods are still employed buy old world artisans in Greece, Italy and Spain. The hot pressed method is employed in the new world and melt and pour is more of a hobby interest than of true soap makers.
You have seen the colorful melt and pour soaps available from internet soap vendors in many different shapes, colors and sizes. These are made from bases that are then
scented, colored and poured into molds. The trouble with the bases is that they are manufactured by enormous chemical and soap companies and they contain many different chemicals that make the melt and pour processes possible. The following is a typical ingredient list of a typical melt and pour soap. "Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Laurate, Sodium Stearate, Glycerin, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Propylene Glycol, Sucrose, Colorant and Distilled Water." These ingredients don't seem like any I would like to have put on my skin.
Old world soap makers use a process called saponification to make their soap. This process takes lye (sodium hydroxide) and mixes it would water and oils. After the process of saponification is completed the chemical composition of the final products has transformed the ingredients into soap. This process eliminates any remnants of the lye. The lye has completely transformed into soap. You cannot make old fashioned soap with out lye. Remember, no lye, no soap. Some soap makers like to scare customers away from old fashioned soap by telling them that there melt and pour soap contains no lye. This might be true, but is it real soap? Or just a kid's project for a rainy afternoon. Try both and you will see the amazing difference true handmade soap can make. To get your premium handmade
wholesale soap at rock bottom prices check different vendors websites to see who offers bulk pricing. The incredible results of using all
natural handmade soap products will make you a customer for life.
Make sure to find genuine references and testemonials from established retailers from your supplier. This is the true test of whether or not a wholesaler can service your account in a timely manner with quality products. Good Luck!
About the Author:
The author of this article is Jeffrey Dorrian proprietor of
thesoapguy.com. This article is the full and copyright property of the said author. It may be reprinted in its' entirety with all links and complete author information in tact. Premium old fashioned wholesale soap.
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