In an effort to keep my stock rotating and fresh, and as I look at what I have currently and look back on last year’s selling trends, I’ve decided as we go into 2009 to phase out my handcrafted Goat’s Milk Soaps and two styles of my handcrafted glycerin soaps: Just Plain Soap and Two-Toned Swirled soaps. I still plan to stock many of these fragrances, but I prefer to make my soaps from scratch now. Doing this ensures a high-quality, at least 96% natural product; and it enables me to make larger batches at a time in approximately the same amount of time. This will ultimately drive down costs over time, which is always a good thing, as I hate raising my prices when the cost of soap base goes up.
I will continue to carry most of my existing “fancy” glycerin soaps – cats, flip flops, the funky sliced soaps and so forth. Those are delightfully creative endeavors for me, so I won’t give them up. I’ve added a purely charming soap to my website, Be Joyful! Be Joyful! is a fun smiley face glycerin soap bearing the utterly uniquely feminine scent of the same name. Be Joyful! was the first Sara’s Soaps ‘n Such exclusive fragrance creation, and now, 7 years later, it continues to appeal to customers. You can just see yourself smiling back at it, can’t you? You can’t help it; it’s that cheery. I gave a bar of this to a friend of mine one day last year, and she told me it still sits in the soap dish by her sink so it can give her a lift first thing in the morning. C’mon! Give it a try! Let it lift your spirits, too.
