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How To Start a Soapmaking Business

This one day course will give you an overview of the challenges ahead and is guaranteed to set you on the right road and to save you an absolute fortune.

These are the areas we will cover.

1. Selling legally

2. Getting organised

3. Setting up a workshop

4. Purchasing the right equipment

5. Record keeping for both EU legislation and general business

6. The best suppliers

7. The dos and don’ts of packaging

8. Creative marketing – outlets you have never thought of

9. PR, advertising and promotion

10. Dealing with buyers

The course will be held in Walthamstow, London which is on the Victoria line and is approximately 5 1/2 hours long. Start and finish times vary according to the hall availability so if timing is crucial to you please contact Juliette for times on the date you wish to attend.

The cost of the day including lunch and course papers is £100.00.

Places will be limited so please book early using the following booking form

This course is run by Melinda Coss, author of The Handmade Soap Book and Gourmet Soaps Made Easy. In the early nineties Melinda set up a soapmaking business in her kitchen which within two years had grown to employ 25 people and was supplying numerous gift shops and hotels as well as all the major UK supermarkets. She sold the business in 2004.

Melinda has also set up soapmaking enterprises in rural Africa and continues to work on consultancy and poverty alleviation projects as well as running regular courses teaching what she learnt the hard way. Melinda also offers one to one consultations covering – business plan creation, strategy, formulation and focussed range creation.

Please email direct for info on personal consultancy

So now you are hooked on soapmaking, you have mountains of soap taking over your home and its time to start making some money from your hobby........ Come on our biz course and learn how to do it.

''This was well worth attending. It gave me some focus on what I should do, where to start, and how to start. I'm a lot clearer now on how I should go about with my aims. Thank you. I may want to do more courses in the future. ''

K.K. - London

Dear Melinda, THank you for a very enjoyable weekend. I feel inspired!

J.A.

This course was brilliant - I definitely recommend attending anything she runs as she really knows her onions (this is Melinda Coss). The course was about running a soap business and I have to say that one thing become very clear - *either* you make soap for a hobby and try out lots of different ideas and experiment *or* you run a business whereby you create about six great soaps and then spend all your time marketing them.

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