I found out these past couple of days that people actually would like to buy my soap. Who would have thought right?
But…SCORE!
Now of course it’s not like a billion people are standing in line , but hey you have to start somewhere. Well that’s where I’m at and I’m pretty excited. But now that I’ve got a couple people that would like to buy my soap I better get in gear and get some made. Because once you have soap made it takes 6 weeks to cure and get hard and then you can sell it. So it’s not like I can make a bunch and sell it next week or anything like that. I better get a plan.
So what’s my plan? No really what is my plan? 🙂
OK, this is what I’m going to start out with. I’m going to do like the Amish since I like their style so much. They set aside one day a week for a specific task and I think I’ll start with making my soap on Sundays. Come to think of it, they don’t really work on Sundays do they? OK, so I’ll make my soap on Saturdays. Well we’ve got a bunch of weddings coming up on Saturdays…. Oh shoot, I guess I’ll try to just make it on the weekend sometime. So much for the Amish way of life!
This is week # 1 and today I made the soap ‘Squeaky Windmill’. It’s named after our windmill that I absolutely LOVE and it does squeak a lot. This soap is made out of coconut oil, olive oil, castor oil, and palm oil as the base with a Soapy Clean fragrance. I mixed in some blue color and now I’m anxious to get it cut. I took it out of the mold after 24 hours and it’s way too soft to cut. Because I’m not the most patient person in the world, I put the soap someplace where I couldn’t see it and will have to wait a day or two until it’s more firm. I can’t wait to see just how it looks.
But until then – here is what it looks like unmolded and waiting to be cut