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What one handmade soap bar really costs you, line by line: oils, lye, scent, packaging, your hands, and the fees hidden in the sale. A worked example that ends with the shelf price that actually pays you.
The episode builds a two-pound lavender loaf - sixty percent olive oil, thirty percent coconut, ten percent castor - and follows it to a cost of six dollars and thirteen cents a bar: one dollar nine of materials, twenty-five cents of packaging, three dollars thirty of labour, one dollar forty-nine of overhead. It shows why labour is the line almost everyone skips, how Etsy's listing, transaction and processing fees move with the price, how one scent swap can change a bar by a dollar fifty-six, and why a six-dollar wholesale offer needs the sum before the yes. The ledger closes at thirteen dollars on the shelf card for a fifty percent margin.
