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Nice to meet you too!

Yes, hi Joel and welcome to the forum! Do you make soap and sell it or just do it as a hobby? I'm assuming you make soap of course lol?

Oh, right now I just do it for fun and to give as gifts. I don't have the time or patience to try to turn it into a business. Nickie, do you make soap to sell or for friends and family mostly?

Hi Joel, has it become an obsession yet? LOL

Strikes me, someone needs to go to the packaging fairs.. either here or in the US.. and set up a UK supply base..

I was looking at QVC over christmas, and they had some mixed box "sets" for gifts.. the boxes were really sturdy/durable looking.. and "silly" money - £20 for 10 and so on.. I know if you are buying 10000 of something you get much much better rates, but surely as a wholesale purchaser a lot of these manufacturers will supply a "pack" price.. ???

Given UK sourced packaging seems so expensive.. there must be a market out there for more affordable stuff..

just a thought..!

I'd defo agree Gord...someone's missing a trick! If I could afford it, I'd be ordering in the ten of thousands- sadly though, it takes money to make money eh and why I'll always be poor lol! Seriously though, there's defo a gap in the market for that stuff here, it's nigh on ompossible to get nice packaging at reasonable cost here isn't it!