Put Your Stamp On When You Make Homemade Soap

There is a great satisfaction when you make homemade soap. Most soap makers have a distinct preference about having scent or no scent when they use it for themselves. Others like to experiment and develop a range of skills using colours, other additives, swirl techniques and different fats and oils. But regardless of whether you go for variety or keep with the tried and true there will come a time when you want to say, “Hey, these are mine. Look.”

This is all the more important if you are going to sell your homemade soaps. You have to consider carefully all aspects of your branding when you come to look at how you present yourself to the public – all that comes under marketing. The same is true when you gift your homemade soap to family and friends, although here you have much more latitude in what you do and how you do it. You can try many ways of presenting your soaps and, unless your family and friends are destructive folks it shouldn’t come back and bite you.

A simple way to show the soaps are yours is to stamp the soap with your choice of rubber or other stamp. You can purchase rubber stamps from craft shops that work well, however choose simple designs that transfer well to the soap and avoid fussy detail that loses its definition in that medium. Alternatively you can use a wood block stamp, old lino tiles made into a stamp and even have homemade stamps from potatoes done by your child. Stamping should be done once the soap is in the molds and has set to the point it is medium firm but still soft enough to take the impression from the stamp. Stamping is an excellent step to add when you make homemade soap as it adds just one more distinction to an already special product made by you.