Wholesale Skyrocketed Our Soap Business

Discover how one couple transformed their garden herbs into a thriving wholesale soap business after their daughters left for college, turning passion into profit.

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Priya Buge
March 02, 2020

When our twin daughters left home to attend college, I had a lot of time on hand. To fill the vacuum left by our daughters going away, I needed something to do and wanted an activity in which my husband, Sunil, could also get involved and we could have more quality time together.

We both love gardening and had lots of herbs like lavender, rosemary, sage, lemongrass, and eucalyptus growing in our yard. Childhood memories of the lavender soap my father would bring home inspired me to use the lavender from the garden to try making our own soap.

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