Start Hand wash Soap-making business: method, cost analysis, raw materials, and profit potential.

Whenever I hear of “hand Wash,” I recall that dire frenetic hand-cleaning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At that period, everyone prioritized personal hygiene, frequently sanitizing their hands to stay safe.  Today, we can explore a Business opportunity that helps people stay clean and free of germs.

We will discuss how you can start producing and marketing hand washing soap. This is a low-investment business idea with huge profit potential.

Hand wash soaps are everywhere; you find them at eateries, toilets, offices, etc. So, yes! There is a large market for the product. If you are as pumped up as I am, let us get this started.

Raw Materials You Need To Make Hand wash Soap

The hand wash soap business may have a thousand and one problems, but lack of raw materials is not one.

You can easily procure the ingredients you need to produce handwash soap.

Here are the materials you need:

Process Of Making Hand Wash Soap

Follow the instructions given below to make one liter of hand wash.

• First of all, weigh 850 grams of pure water and take it out in a separate plastic bucket. For this, it is easy to use a computerized weighing scale.
• After weighing the water, measure around 50 grams of SLS. SLS is called sodium laurel sulfate.
• Add 2-3 grams of the fragrance of your choice to SLS and mix it well.
• Now, add the mixed SLS and perfume to the measured 850 grams of water.
• Put all these mixtures in a mixer and leave them to mix.  During this time, perfume, SLS, and water mix very well.
• Now measure and add around 20 grams of CLPB.  During this time, the plastic bucket remains attached to the mixer.
• After this, add 20 grams of cadmium to everything while mixing.
• Add the color of your choice to this mixture. Adding colorant while preparing the mixture gives it a homogeneous appearance.
• After this, salt is added to the mixture. You will notice that the mixture thickens as you add salt. Do not add large salt quantity in one swoop. To increase the concentration or consistency, add salt gradually and concentrate the mixture as per your requirements.
• Leave this mixture like this for eight to ten hours. Now, your hand wash soap is ready for the market.

Total Cost For Hand Wash Soap Business

If you have no equipment and have to start from scratch, you may require a capital of 80,000 to 200,000 Naira to start this business.

This amount will be enough for you to hit the ground running in your soap business.

As your business grows, you will need more capital investment to increase the volume of products you produce.

Where To Get Materials For Hand Wash Soap

Most of the raw materials you need to start this business are regular chemical substances. The base material is clean water, and you can get any volume of it from a water bore hole facility or sachet water producers.

Again, you can readily purchase salt and color used in even small markets.

Granted, you may face a bit of a challenge finding the necessary chemicals like CLPB, cadmium, and SLS.

However, you can find these materials in any chemical shop, or you can also order them online.

Hand wash soap packaging

Once the hand wash is ready, it is also necessary for its package to look attractive for marketing. The most suitable packaging material for hand wash soaps is plastic containers.

These containers come in a variety of designs and are available from sellers on Jiji.ng. I

f you want a custom design for your containers, your best bet is to contact plastic manufacturers. You can draw up your design, and they will manufacture it for you.

Here are some plastic manufacturing companies that can handle this task:

• Sunplast
• Innoson Plastic Company
• OK Plast Nigeria Limited
• RIDA National Plastics

You can bargain with them and have these plastic containers branded, or you can design stickers and paste them on the containers.

The typical size of these plastic containers ranges from 250 ml to 1 liter. After getting your plastic containers, buy a measuring beaker and ensure that the contents of each container are equal.

After filling the containers, you can cap them with a capping machine. If you opted for stick-on branding, you can now paste the labels.

Marketing of hand wash soap

Behind a successful business lies a successful business strategy.

Therefore, you have to take both small and big steps must to market this business effectively.

One crucial aspect is branding the hand wash you produce. It’s essential to develop your chosen name and company logo to be printed on the packaging.

Registering the company for branding is necessary. Initially, this work can begin without registration, but as the business expands, registration becomes mandatory.

Putting up posters can help make your brand name popular in the market.

Additionally, you can initially sell your hand wash at a lower price than other companies to attract more customers. Creating an online website under your company’s name is another way to promote your brand.

Machines For Hand Wash Soap Business

If you cannot afford machines at the beginning of the business, you can hire laborers to mix the ingredients. However, this method reduces your production capacity and is not financially sustainable in the long run.

The most crucial machines for this business are the mixer, packaging, and sealing machines.

The price of a mixer machine starts at 400,000 Naira. A semi-automatic capping machine goes for around 280,000 Naira, while a fully automatic machine sells for 1.2 million Naira and above.

Location For Hand Wash Soap Making Business

The easiest thing about starting this business is that it does not require much space.

A good product can be prepared even from the comfort of your home. Over time, as the business grows, there may be a need to increase the space.

To start this business, you need a land area of at least 200 square feet.