New Market Displays are Up
The past couple of week ends I’ve had the new handmade soap displays set up at the outdoor market I attend most weekends. This market is the Portland Saturday Market which is gigantic and keeps me pretty busy. I get to meet and talk with retail customers but also potential wholesale soap customers too. Handmade soap is very, very heavy and so it was really important to try to come up with a display system that would allow me to fill it in the shop and just set up at the market. Reduction of tubs of inventory was the main motivator in order to save my back every week end. Every outdoor market, fair or special event that I’ve attended to market my handmade soap company at has always had 10 x 10 booth spaces. Trying to condense things into a 8 x 8 space is no easy task. We are almost there but not quite. I love how the handmade soap bars are displayed in their new do but the booth is still too stark. We will need to jazz things up a bit. How? Well…now, guess I’m going to have to figure that out.
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I arrived at your blog when I did a search for Soaphutch reviews. Do you still like your molds? I’m a Canadian soaper, mostly goatsmilk soaps.
Comment by Karen Pettinger — August 14, 2010 @ 5:16 pm
Hi Karen,
For me the soaphutch mold works well when I make a large slab. I am having trouble getting the dividers to release when making individual logs. Adding sodium lactate does help but I would prefer not to do that if at all possible. My recipes tend to want to stick to the hdpe plastic but I was given a hint to gently heat the mold in the oven for 10 minutes and the hdpe would release from the soap. Haven’t tried that yet but I will.
Comment by Robin — September 26, 2010 @ 3:38 pm
Love your portable wooden soap displays. They look like dressers almost! Will you be selling them?
Comment by Sage — June 1, 2011 @ 3:05 pm
Hi Sage,
Thank you for the kind words. These displays are custom for my size soaps which are not the standard. My husband has tossed the “idea” around but not really seriously as they are a whole lot of work! We get a lot of requests for these so I’ll put another bug in his ear LOL!
Comment by Robin — June 2, 2011 @ 9:17 am