Partners & Friends


The Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild, Inc. is an international non-profit professional trade association. Our mission is to promote the handcrafted soap industry; to act as a center of communication among soap makers, and to circulate information beneficial to soap makers.

Willow Way – Founding Member.

We are a small woman-owned business in Sutton, Massachusetts with 20 years of experience designing packaging for a wide variety of industries such as food and beverage, health and beauty, and manufacturing. If you haven’t found what you need for your parts, food, bath bombs, eggs, critters, etc we’re the people to contact.


Makesoap.biz is the home of soap-making author and consultant Melinda Coss.

Melinda runs courses in both England and the South of France on making a variety of body care products, and also on how to run a successful soap business.

Having set up what became the largest natural soap-making company in the UK, Melinda also offers consultancy and mentoring for natural product entrepreneurs who are either starting up or who wish to develop their existing businesses into the high street and international brands.

Soaper’s Choice – You can depend on Soaper’s Choice to choose the highest quality oils for your hand-crafted, specialty soaps. We have on-site testing facilities to ensure that we only sell the best. Soaper’s Choice will go out of its way to help you get the products you want when large companies don’t seem to have the time.


IBN is the established, respected voice of the handmade beauty industry and the premier provider of business-related services to handmade beauty products manufacturers and the companies that supply packaging and raw materials to them.

Formerly Saponifier Magazine

The Bimonthly Digital Magazine for the Handcrafted Soapmaking Industry. Written by soapmakers, for soapmakers about soapmaking. Six issues are published bimonthly.


The Nova Studio – Since 2003 The Nova Studio is THE place to learn how to make handcrafted soap, candles, and natural bath & body products.

We offer consulting, private lessons, one-day group classes & multi-day boot camps in making soap (cold process, hot process, & melt and pour), mineral makeup, eco-friendly candle making, lotions, creams, serums, body butters, herbal bath salts, salt scrubs, lip balm, natural perfumes, fizzy bath bombs & more!

In addition to selling handmade bath and body products, I consult with beauty and cosmetic companies of all sizes in the area of soap, cosmetics, bath, and body – from the gift industry to the gourmet food industry. As a consultant, I research and design personal care products. In addition, my company can provide private label to clients.


The Essential Herbal – The magazine by, for, and about Herbie people and the things they love – herbs! There are 6 issues per year filled to the brim with crafts, recipes, lore, and remedies.

Interested? Subscribe here.

Joan Morais Cosmetic School – Online and live classes on making natural lotions, creams, body butters, soap, body wash, shampoo, hair conditioner, hair gel, facial skincare line, and much more.

Taught by natural cosmetic formulator and instructor, certified aromatherapist, and herbalist, Joan Morais.


Bubble and Bee Organic – Go here to watch the most informative videos on chemicals in personal care products that we have found. We like the “Bubble and Bee on Studio 5”. This site also has an excellent chemical database!

Price-O-Matic – Software that crunches true product costs for you? Indeed. Goodbye, calculator. Sayonara “educated guesses.” Life will never be the same!

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