High Volume Production: How to Streamline the Process to Fill Fundraising Orders
Organize Your Workspace
Once you have everything you need, it is time to prepare your workspace. Clear a large, clean space that is dedicated to this specific project. Next, gather all ingredients and supplies. This includes: soap bases, colors, fragrances, cutting tools, mixing tools, scale, bowls, measuring cups, droppers, rubbing alcohol, molds, mats, paper towels, etc. Organize in a way that makes sense to you and so that everything can be easily found!
Delegate Work and Prep
Now it’s time to get to work! Do you have other employees working for you? (Spouses and children count!) If so, decide who is going to do what. If its just you, be sure you are aware of everything that needs to be done before you begin. When streamlining Melt and Pour soapmaking you should:
• Cut up soap into small blocks/cubes and weigh.
• Pre-measure fragrance and color. Label if necessary.
• If you are making more than one soap recipe, group the cut soap
with corresponding fragrance and color for that recipe.
• Set out molds so that they are ready to be poured into. Use molds
with many cavities or large capacity and use as many as possible.
Melt, Mix & Pour!
Once everything is prepped, you are ready to go! At this point, you should have everything you need right in front of you so all you have to do is melt your soap, mix in additives and pour into the molds! You will probably need to do several batches of the same product, depending on the total volume and your equipment capacity. Work on the same product until the full batch is complete, then move onto the next.
Continue to repeat the ‘melt, mix & pour’ process until your large batch is complete! Take breaks that allow you to easily pick up where you left off, and try to remain as tidy as possible. Enjoy the simplicity of the process and soon you’ll be streamlining like a professional!
Once you have everything you need, it is time to prepare your workspace. Clear a large, clean space that is dedicated to this specific project. Next, gather all ingredients and supplies. This includes: soap bases, colors, fragrances, cutting tools, mixing tools, scale, bowls, measuring cups, droppers, rubbing alcohol, molds, mats, paper towels, etc. Organize in a way that makes sense to you and so that everything can be easily found!
Delegate Work and Prep
Now it’s time to get to work! Do you have other employees working for you? (Spouses and children count!) If so, decide who is going to do what. If its just you, be sure you are aware of everything that needs to be done before you begin. When streamlining Melt and Pour soapmaking you should:
• Cut up soap into small blocks/cubes and weigh.
• Pre-measure fragrance and color. Label if necessary.
• If you are making more than one soap recipe, group the cut soap
with corresponding fragrance and color for that recipe.
• Set out molds so that they are ready to be poured into. Use molds
with many cavities or large capacity and use as many as possible.
Melt, Mix & Pour!
Once everything is prepped, you are ready to go! At this point, you should have everything you need right in front of you so all you have to do is melt your soap, mix in additives and pour into the molds! You will probably need to do several batches of the same product, depending on the total volume and your equipment capacity. Work on the same product until the full batch is complete, then move onto the next.
Continue to repeat the ‘melt, mix & pour’ process until your large batch is complete! Take breaks that allow you to easily pick up where you left off, and try to remain as tidy as possible. Enjoy the simplicity of the process and soon you’ll be streamlining like a professional!
