1/2/2017
Design soap labels – Name and ingredients – need to edit to add weight…
Min. Weight 100gm
Revisit soap hardening research
2/2/2017
Consider SoAC milestones - (Iterations within each – review / update scope / process)
R&D
Soap Parties / Workshops
Add more personal care objects
Add home care objects
Expand to other areas of everyday life (such as cooking)
Connect with other orgs…
Premises….
3/2/2017
Lush soaps just rapeseed and coconut with colours and fragrance
12/2/2017
Consider management… forms etc…
MYOB…
Web design allowing -
Public – Look, Register, Login, Order
Members – Login, Order
Party Demonstrators – Login, Input Sales Data
Admin – Login, Total Backend Access
13/12/2017
Started putting 4 body bar kits together in jars to do a trial workshop of 4 people…
Put ROE in all the oils in stock except the solid oils (coconut and cocoa butter)..
Sodium lactate and colour kit arrived – had to go collect
Researched sodium hydroxide supply - Blacktown
Complete form showing expenses to date
15/12/2016
Factored in Sodium Lactate into soaps and kits
Developed cheaper soap - the Coconut-Rice Bar (60% Rice Bran & 40% Coconut)
Created retail sheet showing kits and soaps (with ingredients)
Weighed fully cured batch 4-5 weeks (determined 12 bars not 10 from each batch)
Weighs 1179gms (98gms/bar – therefore approx. 100gms)
Adjusted costing figures to reflect 12 bars/batch (looking much better)
16/12/2016
Created a draft Catalogue
Consider interviewing Natalie Isaacs – Founder of 1MW
Consider fridge to store oils
Additional cost of power + unaccounted for costs such as water & detergent
(cleaning)
17/2/2017
Some re-organising of documents (fine tune folders)
Need to accommodate Custom Kits (member’s own recipe)
Put Custom Kits in catalogue near Raw Materials
Start to create Weighing, Labelling, Packing and Delivery Diary for Orders, Parties and W/shops
18/2/2017
Review purchasing needs and suppliers
Start working on stock control system/records
Made a batch of the Body-Bar recipe (used a kit for the first time
– forgot to put in Sodium Lactate)
19/2/2017
Continued working on stock (oils) records + worked on jars
Made a batch each of the Coconut-Rice and Luxury Bars
20/2/2017
Removed Body-Bar from mould… (Dark in the centre)… researched and found that it only went through partial gel phase… Cut into individual soaps… took pictures
I organised media from devices (photos and videos) only to discover that I had deleted some (in the incorrect belief that I had already removed them - I assume that I had only viewed and not actually removed the media because I cannot locate those files).
21/2/2017
Removed Coconut-Rice-Bar from its mould and cut into individual soaps…
Worked on labelling for bars (hoping to have some available for sale during UOW Clubs Day)… Label layout positions on soap changed with making 12 bars not 10…
Reviewed suppliers to make sure before ordering - Made my first major stock order – $471 with N-Essentials in Victoria (including $54 postage) – carrier oils and essential oil fragrances…Needed to get more stuff to make the Super-Luxury-Bar soap and kit…
23/2/2017
Removed Luxury-Bar from its mould and cut into individual soaps…
Reviewed silicone suppliers for making moulds
Complete admin related to PhD / Centrelink
24/2/2017
Sold some soap (2 Butter-Bars for $5) + gave some older soap
Order silicone for making moulds (couldn’t find locally)
25/2/2017
Create Income sheet for SOAC admin
Research silicone suppliers for making own moulds
26/2/2017
Ordered some Soap Nuts to test
27/2/2017
The silicone I ordered arrived today. I’ll be able to start making moulds.
Silicone and hardener
I went looking at digital kitchen scales and managed instead to borrow a set from a friend… this should make weighing easier.
I bought some more distilled water.
I had a ‘keep-in-the-back-of-the-brain’ idea to work over the next 2-3 years towards establishing a local Alternative Consumption Festival:
It may be worth making a future application to Wollongong City Council