Not a marketplace blog. These are the working notes of four people who sold handmade goods for years before they built a course — pricing, packaging, festive stock, and the WhatsApp messages that actually get replies.
Selling & Marketing
Retail is one jar at a time; a parlour takes thirty. Here is how I sell to salons wholesale: the sample kit, the minimum order, the 2× floor, the…
Bath, Spa & Salon
A bath salt business is the cheapest spa product to start in India, and the one most people price wrong because they copy a bathtub country. What…
Bath, Spa & Salon
A facial bomb is the single-use fizzing facial that parlours now use instead of a six-step kit. What it is, what one costs to make, what a salon pays…
Kitchen & Food Business
A homemade masala business is the one food business that keeps for months and ships anywhere. Here is what 100 g of rajma masala costs to make, where…
Bath, Spa & Salon
A wax powder business is the easiest salon product to start from a kitchen: no heater, no burns, dry stock that keeps a year. What parlours pay, what…
Kitchen & Food Business
A sharbat business is sugar, fruit, a clean bottle and a calendar. Here is what a 750 ml bottle of homemade squash costs, why the sugar ratio decides…
Haircare
An ayurvedic hair oil business lives or dies on one thing: whether water got into the oil. Here is how I soak, heat and strain a shelf-stable oil…
Chocolate & Sweets
A home baking business does not need twelve flavours. It needs one chocolate ganache cake you can make with your eyes closed, priced properly and…
Perfume & Fragrance
A car perfume business is the cheapest fragrance product to start and the hardest to get right, because a dashboard in June goes past sixty degrees.…
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Bath salts, facial bombs and wax powder
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