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How did you get interested in making soap?

 

Alegna Soap® How did you get interested in making soap?

When I meet someone for the first time, I am usually asked “How did you get interested in making soap?”  It’s a hard question to answer. All science things interest me, and making soap is science. I was intrigued by the idea that you can take two totally different things, oil and a base, and make a completely different substance.  It’s like magic.

There wasn’t a lot of extra time in my life with a full time job and a family, to explore soap making. In 1998, I was working in a Physician Office Lab as a Medical Technologist.  I loved my job, the staff and the patients.  But changes in the health care system made it too expensive for the doctors to keep the lab open. I found a new job in a school system as a Science Materials Coordinator, and followed a school calendar.  For the first time since I was a student, I had the summer off and I wanted to do something productive. I went to the library and took out a book on soap making. Deciding to use beef fat for my first batch, I went to the butcher and rendered the fat into tallow.  I quickly realized I could use different oils instead of beef fat, and made soap the whole summer.

The start of Alegna Soap®

By 2008, both my children had graduated from high school, then college and moved out of the house. I decided it was my turn to do what makes me happy.  My son designed a website for me and I start playing around with different recipes, ingredients, colors and designs.  Since fragrance oils give me headaches, I start using different essential oils to scent the soaps.  I realize I love to blend scents, and took some perfuming classes too. My dad made me my soap boxes and drying racks.  I joined the Handcrafted Soap Guild and Indie Business Network and I learned as much as I could about running a business. I haven’t looked back.

So “How did I get interested in making soap?”  I guess I still can’t really answer, except to say I always have been and I’m very glad I am.
Yours in Gratitude,
Angela

Filed Under: Soaps Tagged With: Alegna Soap, Handcrafted Soap and Cosmetic Guild, Indie Business, Making soap, Soap

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