WHY IS THERE SO MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THE PRICE OF HANDCRAFTED SOAP?
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THE PRICE OF HANDCRAFTED SOAP?
Natural high end soap bars that use organic virgin oils and butters, organic botanicals, organic essential oils and organic additives are more costly due to the expense of these ingredients. The second major cost is the labor of making these micro batches of soap.
INGREDIENTS: The price of ingredients affects cost more than any other variable!
- Olive Oil is more costly than Palm Oil. Lavender oil is more costly than Orange essential oil.
- Organic ingredients are more costly than conventional.
- Some ingredients increase in price each time we place an order.
- Fair traded butters and oils are more costly.
- Essential oil price fluctuate at times due to crop damage.
- Specialty oils are very expensive.
LABOR: Some soaps simply take a lot more time to make.
- Organic ingredients are more costly than conventional.
- Some ingredients increase in price each time we place an order.
- Many of our bars are made with herbal infused oils which may take weeks to prepare.
- We hand make all of our soaps in small batches. "Handmade" takes more time than machine made!