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  1. We are constantly looking at ways to improve our products for our customers and in turn to increase your sales.  One area that we have had many of our customers talk about is point of sale... customers have asked if we can provide posters, cards etc all as point of sale and branding for our products and that is something that we are due to launch very shortly.

    When placing your order you will have the option of adding to your order various items that will brand your products, from our research with retail customers we have found that customers enjoy buying products which have an associated brand, that finishing touches such as ribbon, tags etc all promoting that the product is handmade would encourage them to buy the products especially as gifts, therefore we will initially be launching posters for you to display in your shop etc, product cards advising about our products and ethos of always being handmade, gentle and highest quality, swing tags for our bathbombs and ribbon for our soaps.  The ribbon you will be able to gift wrap your products with, this we have found encourages the purchase of for example one bar to three bars all packaged prettily with ribbon... It all helps add value to your sales.

    We will stil be selling personalised ribbon that you can print with your own business information but we will be offering soap house branded ribbon at significant discounts and the swing tags, we hope that this will encourage your sales.  We also have art work available for those who do craft fairs etc that they will be able to have printed into banners useful for advertising what you are selling and again that it is proudly handmade and high quality.  We can email artwork to you or have the banners printed and delivered to you.

    The artwork will be available shortly and we will be enclosing samples in every order that is dispatched, you will then be able to select if you wish to have the branding on all future orders.

    It's so excited, we hope you love it!

    The Soap House

  2. Have you ever wanted to make your own bath bombs?  Whether you are looking for a new hobby or a new business venture our bath bomb courses are the perfect way to gain the knowedge of how to make your own products without making mistakes!  We run monthly courses for beginners through to advance makers in making bathbombs and soaps.   Our courses are intended to cover the practicalities of how to make your products.  We will be introducing shortly a further course called Business Knowledge, this course will be covering the legalities of selling with advice on all aspects of the "paperwork" side of the industry.  Any person booking on one of our "making" courses below will receive a discount should they wish to book a place on our business knowledge course once launched.  You can book one of our courses by clicking here. Our courses are approximately 2 hours in length or we also offer a day course option where you receive more in depth training which can be one on one.  The courses take place in Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire, perfect for anyone travelling within the North West.  Ramsbottom is just off the M66 motorway and has good public transport links.  We have parking facilities at our venues and can offer advice on accommodation for those wishing to stay overnight.

    Bathbombs

    Join us on one of our sessions to learn the basics through to how to make an artisan bathbomb.

    Our beginner course lasts approximately 2 hours and covers ingredients, percentages of ingredients, mixing and making a final product.

    Our advanced course teaches different bathbomb styles and designs, making two/three tone bathbombs and more.  This course also advises on where to buy ingredients and gives those taking part a discount on any future orders buying the ingredients for your bathbombs from ourself.

    Soaps

    Our soap making courses teach you how to make your own artisan soap loaves.

    Our beginner course teaches you the difference in soap bases, melting your soap base, colouring and fragrancing.

    Our advanced course teaches you how to make more artisan soaps such as multi layer soaps, soaps with embedded shapes and how to perfect the finish of your soap loaves.

    Soap Bakery Cake Course

    In this course we teach you how to make soap bakery cakes, we recomend this course for those who have already completeled the advanced course as it requires multi layer ability.

    To book a course simply select and add to your basket, we run our courses at weekends to allow those who are working to attend.  We can run week day courses if that is a preference.  We can also provide private bath bomb and soap making sessions for an individual where we can go through the beginners through to advanced in one day session, there will be an additional charge for a private session but you have the added benefit of being able to choose your own date and you can adapt the course to your needs.  We are happy for the private session to be attended by more than one person so this is an excellent option for friends/family who are looking to make products together.  The price of a private session does not increase with more attendees it is a fixed fee.

    These sessions are aimed at adults and we recomend them for ages 16 and over, we also run children/teenager fun workshops which you can also book via our website.