Soapmaking Sample Manufacturing Workflows

Craftybase helps you track materials, costs, and production efficiently, making it easier to manage your soap-making business. Below, we outline an example workflow for manufacturing handcrafted soap using Craftybase.

Setting Up Your Materials

Before you start manufacturing, you'll need to add all the raw ingredients used in your soap recipes. This includes:

• Base oils & butters (e.g., olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter)
• Lye (sodium hydroxide)
• Essential oils & fragrances
• Colorants & additives (e.g., clays, exfoliants, botanicals)
• Packaging materials (e.g., labels, boxes, shrink wrap)

Creating Your Soap Recipes

Each soap type you produce should have its own recipe in Craftybase. Recipes allow you to define:

• Ingredient quantities (e.g., 450g olive oil, 100g coconut oil, 60g lye, etc.)
• Batch sizes (e.g., 10 bars per batch)
• Manufacturing costs (including labor and overhead)

Recording a Manufacture

When you make a batch of soap, log it as a Manufacture in Craftybase.

1. Navigate to Manufactures > Add Manufacture.
2. Select the soap product you are making.
3. Enter the quantity being produced (e.g., 10 bars).
4. Review the material usage to ensure accurate stock reduction.
5. Save the manufacture to update stock levels.

Optional: Create Components for Pre-Mixed Ingredients

If you create pre-mixed lye solutions, oil blends, or custom fragrance blends, you can set them up as Components in Craftybase. This allows you to track them as individual materials while maintaining accurate cost calculations.

Tracking Packaging & Final Product Inventory

Once your soaps are cut, cured, and packaged, you can:

• Track the materials used for packaging (e.g., boxes, labels).
• Record additional labor costs if applicable.
• Adjust stock to reflect the number of bars ready for sale.