Ok! so much to blog and so little time! This will be a short-ish post but will have a lot of pictures. I have made a few batches and they are all curing and getting ready to go for farmers market season! Since this is my first time venturing into selling my soaps, I am nervous and excited all at once. For the past few weeks I have been applying and contacting local farmers markets up and down 575. I thought it would be pretty easy to be a vendor and just show up to sell my soap and candles. Boy! I was wrong! I was being denied by so many farmers markets! I don't think I realized that other people make soap and beauty products too...and they are already nice and cozy existing vendors at many farmers markets. haha!
I am so blessed to say that I was accepted into my home city's market! Canton Farmers Market is my new home for selling all things "Goat Milk Goods"! I am so excited that when I received the acceptance email, I jumped up and down and ran to tell Chase! (He was not as excited and did not jump up and down but he was happy for me). The Canton Farmers Market opens May 23 from 8-12! I really am so excited and that means I need to get more batches of soap going! I have a feeling I will be making a few batches a week! I hate that they curing time takes 3-4 weeks! Anyway! I am so pumped and ready to get selling! |
I was also accepted to the Waleska Farmers Market (Thursday Nights) and the Jasper Farmers Market. I will probably vend at both of these, but the Canton Farmers Market is going to be my regular place! :)
I had planned on making a few blog posts for each of batch of soap but I have not been keeping up with it! Here are a few photos of my most recent batches! Each new batch has taught me something different about soaping and I am so excited to keep gaining knowledge! I may not be perfect at my new hobby but I think that is what makes it fun!
Happy Soaping Y'all!
-Rachel
-Rachel