"Big bucks" from "free soap"...!

[Dien Rice]

This lady makes and sells soap... However, the unusual thing is, she gets her raw materials for free!

She makes soap from used cooking oil. She gets it free from "ma and pa" restaurants, because they "don't use it to death"...

She sells each bar of soap for prices from $3.75 to $4.75...

Interesting way to do this business!

She's a one-woman business, and can make 244 bars a day. Let's see... That's a minimum of... $915 bucks a day...!

(She sells them from her website. However, even if she sold them wholesale rather than retail... even half or a third of that, per day, ain't too shabby! Especially when your main raw ingredient is free!)

You can read more here...

Deep fried cleaning: woman makes soap from used cooking oil
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/D...235496221.html

http://frogsoap.com

- Dien

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

This lady makes and sells soap... However, the unusual thing is, she gets her raw materials for free!

She makes soap from used cooking oil. She gets it free from "ma and pa" restaurants, because they "don't use it to death"...

She sells each bar of soap for prices from $3.75 to $4.75...

Interesting way to do this business!

She's a one-woman business, and can make 244 bars a day. Let's see... That's a minimum of... $915 bucks a day...!

(She might sell them wholesale rather than retail... but even half or a third of that, per day, ain't too shabby! Especially when your main raw ingredient is free!)

You can read more here...

Deep fried cleaning: woman makes soap from used cooking oil
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/D...235496221.html

- Dien

Here's another "twist" to this story...

A friend of mine has also been looking at used cooking oil - and I tell you, there's no shortage of it out there, which you can get for free. He even found an industrial source where he could get tons of the stuff (you read that right, literally tons), for free. The reason why is, they have to pay to get rid of it! If you take it from these kind of people, they're as happy as clams, because it actually saves them money...

You can also use it (after processing it) as fuel for diesel engines... Check out these links...

http://www.wikihow.com/Prepare-Used-...-for-Biodiesel

http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemis...ebiodiesel.htm

http://www.biodiesel.com/index.php/b...bout_biodiesel

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...fact_colapinto

Just one more "angle" on this idea...

Best wishes!

Dien

Happy New Year Dien,

Great Catch... Find on this Kinda stuff!

What about Finding out How to Make and Turn this into Actual sellable Products and Ideas? ...

Here you Go! ... For a Nice selection of Low Cost investments with Getting into the business...

Hope all is well with Gordon these days, it's been a long time in Reading his Great stuff...

Years ago, Gordon talked about Alan Bullington and his family in regards to the Soap Making business in Fly low collect the dough, and other stuff, Remember? ...

Alan Bullington is still around, if you Dig into Google and Many others if you need Help and Ideas...
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-B...s/books/172768

Shhhh! ... One of the Hidden editions in Google if you Look Carefully! ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=alan...JJTnoASx_oDQAw

Also, in regards to Kelp and Seaweed remember, Kelp as Also mentioned in Dien's story related post, Quick related business model Talked about years ago, Updated in the following...

[In 24 hours, it won't smell like french fries. It will be unscented or one of a dozen scents. Among the scents are pumpkin pie and Puget Sound, which she makes from dried kelp found on the beach in front of her home.]

Probably, some dead links by now...
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3781

But here you Go years later... Still, just about neighbors...
https://www.google.com/search?q=seaw...GBNoj0oATP5YJ4
https://www.google.com/search?q=seaw...FIn7oATli4L4Aw

All the best...
For a Happy, Healthy and Successful 2014!
Phil

Hi Phil,

Thanks for thinking of me!

About 7 years ago Gordon Jay helped me walk through the process of developing an info product about making and selling soap.

We were, and still are, living on a small farm and selling soap as one money making venture.

So Gordon started me off by helping me put together a hotsheet, and then we just developed a whole little collection of products.

The original soap making info product, which we called the SoapBizKit, still sells.

As you pointed out, we have some related Kindle books out too.

You know... there's a funny thing about all this.

My children have the vision of getting out there and doing something and working mostly from home.

One of my sons makes custom knives and is doing great with that venture.

A daughter has taken over the soap business.

But like you say, we're still around and still coming out with products and trying to market them.

It started from a great guy, Gordon Jay Alexander, spending time with me to help me.

That was possible because of this forum that Dien and Gordon put together.

And it started with one hotsheet.

Thanks,

Alan Bullington



SoapBizKit

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by AlB

Hi Phil,

Thanks for thinking of me!

About 7 years ago Gordon Jay helped me walk through the process of developing an info product about making and selling soap.

We were, and still are, living on a small farm and selling soap as one money making venture.

So Gordon started me off by helping me put together a hotsheet, and then we just developed a whole little collection of products.

The original soap making info product, which we called the SoapBizKit, still sells.

As you pointed out, we have some related Kindle books out too.

[...]

It started from a great guy, Gordon Jay Alexander, spending time with me to help me.

That was possible because of this forum that Dien and Gordon put together.

And it started with one hotsheet.

Thanks,

Alan Bullington

SoapBizKit

Hi Alan,

Thanks for posting about your story, and your "SoapBizKit!"

The reality is, it is easy for someone to keep "spinning their wheels" trying to figure out what works, while wasting a lot of their time and money.

I only have a limited number of hours on this earth, and I certainly don't want to waste more hours than I need to! I've bought many, many business reports, and most of them have been like "shortcuts" to figuring out what works (and what doesn't)...

Reports like yours, Alan, save many people time and money... So it's a great thing you're still selling it. When you get customers for your report, it's win/win!

Thanks for posting!

Best wishes,

Dien

I love stories like this. The past two decades has seen a significant rise in entrepreneurs who have been savvy enough to turn garbage into gold. There is a company that uses old dog food bags that are thrown away to make toys and clothing for pets. I have seen other business models that use garbage in new and interesting ways. They turn this garbage into a new product. Absolutely brilliant. This woman has a great idea in mind, and I think she could turn this into a home based business model and sell people the information to make this soap for her. Then she could focus on only making sales and allow people to pay her for the free soap, and pay her to have the rights to make the free soap for her.