Home soap making, as practice shows, is a very lucrative business. The composition of this product can be anything from budget options to luxury ones. The undoubted advantage of soap making is the small costs necessary to start a business. The payback period of such a project will be about six months. Profitability ranges from 40 to 50 percent. The production of handmade soap involves the presence of seed capital (about 500 thousand rubles).
Where is better to sell?
Today, there are about twenty soap companies on the market. This does not include large cosmetic companies that, along with this product, make other products (for example, shampoo). The price of a piece of product depends on the components that make up the soap. As a rule, it varies from 80 to 150 rubles. Such a business has some features characteristic of the mentality of the population of our country. So, in foreign countries, handmade soap is purchased as a necessary item for everyday use. And in our country, most often this product is bought as a gift, presenting special requirements, paying attention to the composition of the soap, its external attractiveness, aroma and other points.
Handmade Soap Production
To make this cosmetic product even at home is easy. In this case, we are talking about the injection method of production. It suggests the presence of a soap base (it is 99% pure soap). Finding a place to buy this component is quite simple. It is enough to visit specialized shops or the Internet. The base is placed in a pan or in some other utensils. All kinds of dyes, flavors are placed there. The whole mass is brought to a boiling state. At the end of the process, handmade soap molds are needed. The resulting mixture is poured into them. It was there that the soap cools, taking on a solid form. And you can completely do without them and leave the product right in the pan.
After hardening, it is simply cut into pieces weighing 100 grams. The first option, of course, looks much more attractive in terms of appearance. The main condition for the production of soap is high quality, because it is because of this criterion that this cosmetic product is so very popular. Now a few words should be said about the recipe. You can find different ways of making soap on the Internet. But it will be better if you get a unique recipe from large foreign companies that have long existed in this market. This will give certain competitive advantages.
A few words about the formalities
First of all, you need to register your company. An LLC form is suitable, but you can also act as an individual entrepreneur. To produce soap, you need to buy or rent a room, the area of which should be about 50 square meters. The entire territory will be divided into two parts. One of them is production itself, the second is a warehouse. To reduce costs, you can choose a room outside the city, although there are no special requirements for it (with the exception of standard sanitary standards). For production, you need a stove (you can choose the most inexpensive within 8,000 rubles), 3 pans (a total of 20 liters, the cost will be about 3000). Soap forms will also be required. It is better to choose wooden ones, their cost is about 5000 rubles (we are talking about a kit consisting of 20 molds).
Raw materials and other costs
This item of expenditure is the largest. It takes about 70% of the total cost. 1 ton of soap base costs 150 thousand rubles. For the production of 6000 pieces of soap, 1.5 tons of raw materials are needed. The composition of the soap significantly affects the cost of the product. This includes dyes, all kinds of oils, flavorings. Their cost will be approximately 50 thousand rubles. This volume will be enough for the manufacture of soap for 4 months. You should also purchase vitamins, vegetable fats and other supplements. Cost - 30,000, period of use - 4 months. In addition, it is necessary to think over the issues of packaging and sales of products. You should also decide how many employees will work in your enterprise, and under what conditions.
Eventually
The cost of production (given that the composition of the soap will be standard) will be approximately 500,000 rubles. Fixed costs, including such an item as wages, will be about 250 thousand. Now about income. If the price of 1 bar of soap is 90 rubles, and per month the production volume is within 6000 pieces, then at the end of the month it is realistic to expect 500,000 rubles. Thus, the profitability of the business will be fifty percent. Accordingly, expanding sales channels and increasing production volumes, one can count on good incomes.