Bathing with Soap Crafters
I had a customer call me recently to let me know how much her daughter and son-in-law depend on our melt and pour soap base. Apparently, they have multiple chemical sensitivities and this is the only soap they have been able to find that they can use. So, of course, they got mom hooked on it too, haha, so she was calling to tell me this story.
I’m happy we were able to help with their sensitivity issues. The mom insisted that I should start a marketing campaign to those like her daughter and son-in-law. I’m not so sure I will go full board with that idea, but I did think it was certainly important to mention on the blog.
Soap Crafters Inc., offers a good variety of products that do not contain fragrances or colorants. Our intentions were not to help those with multiple chemical sensitivities, but to supply fine cosmetic bases and products to those who make their own soaps, lotions, and other cosmetic type bases at home and resell them, or just make them as a hobby for their friends and family. If people with sensitivities are being helped by our products, then so much the better!
When I designed our Super Concentrate, the base you use to make your own shampoos and shower gels, I was just trying to something nice to offer our professional soapers. I spent a year fiddling with the blend to get it right. One employee I had at the time was testing each version. One version of the stuff gave her massive dandruff because I had the formula way off in the beginning. I don’t think she ever forgave me for that! So anyway, I tried and tried and finally got it perfect.
In the end, the Super Concentrate makes a fine, thick shampoo that is gentle on the scalp, lathers great, hold fragrance wonderfully and doesn’t contain mostly water. Our formula is a blend of cleansers only, it is not a watered down shampoo. This is very unique and looks a lot like apple sauce. You add the water to it to make shampoo, you are not buying the water.
Our professional soap making customers love our Super Concentrate and make all kinds of personal care products from it. One makes a hand wash that removes the smell of fish and crab from the hands, another makes a horse shampoo, another makes a foaming hand soap with those foamer bottles, but most just make shampoo and hand soap from it. They all have great sales with their personal care recipes and order from us in large quantities.
Personally, I just make shampoo out of it for my own home use. It leaves my hair clean, doesn’t make my scalp itchy like commercial shampoos do and it doesn’t bother the color I put on my hair. I’m a simple person, I suppose.
I’m happy to hear that people with multiple chemical sensitivities are enjoying our products too! We offer many things for them like unscented, bulk lotion, a variety of soap bases from melt and pour to our Soap Noodles Shredded soaps, a good line of pure essential oils if they do want some scent, bulk, unscented bath salts, pure vegetable oils, unscented massage oil, a natural jelly that is like petroleum jelly but make with vegetable oils, a hair conditioner that is derived from palm oil, a linen and body spray one customer told me helps with her eczema, a fruit derived humectant to help rehydrate the skin, and we continually add to our line up.
If you are selling the products that you make, you might think about adding a line of unscented , uncolored shampoos, soaps and lotions for the chemically sensitive people out there. I guess they are having quite a time of it trying to find products to use.
Feel free to use the reply box at the end of this article to let me know the experiences you’ve had with our unscented, uncolored products. Or ideas you have using our products to help your customers with sensitive skin. (If you don’t see the reply box then click on the article heading and it will display.)
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