Making It Big With Soap Business

Josephine is a simple homemaker with a husband and children. She once worked for the beauty soap industry and retired to pursue her dream: make and sell her own soap! She enrolled in a soap-making class in Technology and Livelihood Resource Center and in no time, started selling her soaps like hotcakes.

Her core market are her friends, family, and acquaintances. Her pool of customers steadily grew through referrals until customers would just come knocking at her house looking for her popular  herbal soaps.

Add to that the fact there are certain companies who buys her soaps with no labels then sell them using their own. “I have customer, I won’t mention the name, but that person is really popular right now because of my papaya soaps. Although she uses her own label. The soaps are being sold in leading supermarkets right now.

Her own label is called Dagta (Extract) Herbal Soap which comes in papaya, tawas-papaya, squalene (which she herself concocted and which provide the same effect as the squalene capsule form), guava (for feminine hygiene), and hair-grower soaps. Ther herbal soaps cost P65 per pack of 5 pieces (P13 each).

Together with her five assistants and her husband,  Josephine can make an average of 2,000 herbal soaps everyday.

“I was glad that customers liked my herbal soaps. They said it does well for their skin. It prevents itches and eliminates discoloration and other blemishes on their skin. I could say that my products are pure herbal because I only use pure coconut oil on making them. This is what differentiates my products from the rest of the herbal soaps in the market today.”

At present, Josephine’s soap business is doing well in the market. Her income has helped them a lot especially with her children’s education. She was also able to invest some of her earnings in vehicles and land.

“TLRC helped me a lot. I think the reason why other people weren’t successful in this field was probably because it wasn’t really meant for them. In this business, your product should have the best quality and you should take good care of your customers so that they will patronize your products and hopefully gain more customers in the end.”

Truly, quality is what makes a product lasts. And for Josephine, who’s been making herbal soaps for almost 10 years now, it is no wonder how her small home business stayed this long.

And as long as there are itches, blotches, and other skin problems to deal with, Josephine’s herbal soaps will always be here to save our face.

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29 comments on “Making It Big With Soap Business”

  1. hello josephine!
    im really intersted to buy ur products and sell them..how can i contact you and were is ur location?
    hope to hear from u soon.thanks!
    tin

  2. Dear josephine, I am very interested to know more about your herbal produts. As I coming back to Philippines tommorrow (june 25). Please let me know your address and contact number as I have a limited time of stay in Philippines. I want to meet you or visit your office. My contact number in philippines is +639273103983. Thanks and hope for your immediate rensponse.
    Best regards,
    Marco jacinto

  3. I am very interest in buying and hopefully selling your herbal soaps. kindly email your address. I would like to pursue a business relationship with your company
    Marife

  4. im really interested to buy soap from you but i have no contact number from. can i have one? thanks! pls send to my e-mail

  5. Hi Ma'am,
    I'am interested to buy your herbal soap for resell.
    Please let me know your contact details and address.
    thanks..

  6. Hi Josephine may I know your contact number I'm really interested in your soap and want to order from you. Here is my contact Number pls msg me as soon as u read my comment 09055560005.thanks and god bless you.

  7. Permission to post admin. This is Jennifer Estil from Gabi's Handcrafted Soap, We are making Natural/Herbal Soap like Calamansi Milk Soap, Papaya Milk Soap, Honey Oatmeal Soap, Kojic+Orange Peel Soap, Tawas Soap and etc. We are ope for wholesale and retail. We also give discount for bulk order like half of the price of our retail depending how much soap you order. For more detail please call/txt to 09295625302 or follow us on facebook: gbs handcrafted soap or email us to gabi.handcraftedsoap@yahoo.com. We also customize soap. Thank you

  8. Im planning to have a soap shop here in GenSan. Perhaps i can get the cheapest price of your soap so i can sell it here for a reasonable price. Thank you and God bless. My contact is mpgarsuta@yahoo.com /09183735451

  9. baka need po nyo ng mga items for making your soaps, pwede po kayo makabili sa amin ng per half kilo.. pa message po ? Contact : Globe/ iMessage / Viber : 0917 870 0958
    Thanks.

  10. Do we have to secure any certificate or permit before we start selling homemade soap here in the Philippines?
    Looking forward to your answer. GOD bless!