DROYT NATURAL GLYCERINE SOAP

Hi to all our customers from me, Alistair McCracken. I’m the Sales Director at Droyt Products Ltd and this is the first of what I fully intend to be a regular post on life in a small soap factory in England. Of course, best intentions and all that, but we shall see what happens. Also is life in a small soap factory interesting enough to publish a weekly blog? This is a good question and I think I can answer it myself, by saying that  ’interesting’ and ‘blog’ are two words which are rarely used together accurately, so I shouldn’t really worry about it.

So let’s get started. Today for breakfast I had muesli………………….. Just kidding, of course. It was Fruit and Fibre.

What soap are we making today?  It’s always good to know that so I can make up the correct colours. In fact it’s Red Rose as the main batch with a small batch of Vitamin E. Red Rose uses a dye called Red 33 and Vitamin E, which is a pale amber colour uses some orange and a tiny amount of blue. Is this is a bit like painting class? Anyway we have a really accurate balance in the lab which weighs to 0.01 g and since we’re only putting in a matter of a few grams, it’s important it is accurate.  The other job today is designing some labels for a new project for a customer in Germany. Usually this sort of job is just the back label which has all the ingredients and barcode and so on, so designing is probably not the right word. It’s more like shuffling all the required information around till it fits.  

Anyway that’s enough for now. Next week I’m going to talk about Organic soap and hopefully will have some news on that subject.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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