Start Your Own Business

Natural butters melting for handmade products

Start your own business • with Emma Hyland

Turn your craft into a business

For anyone ready to sell their own candles or soap in Ireland and the EU. Learn to make professional products, then get clear, practical guidance on the costing, labelling and compliance side, from someone who has guided start-up soap and candle businesses through it.

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Which is right for you?

1MasterclassThree hours to learn the craft in depth, for making at home. See masterclasses
2Business workshopFour hours: everything in the masterclass, plus Irish and EU regulations for selling.
3Soap to Sell ProgrammeStep-by-step support through your own set-up, over several sessions. Coming soon.

Business workshops

A hand-poured MuMe soy candle in a glass jar

Candles

Candle Business Workshop

Everything you need to start selling candles

Make candles with essential oils and fragrance side by side, learn waxes, wicks, scent percentages, testing and troubleshooting, then cover Irish and EU regulations, labelling, safety and costing for wholesale and retail.

4 hours1 to 4 peopleemail support afterfrom €550
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Hand-made lavender soap bars

Soap

Soap Business Workshop

Everything you need to start selling soap

The cold process method, base ingredients, scent percentages and troubleshooting, plus what's needed to sell soap as a cosmetic in Ireland and the EU: the safety assessment, product information file, labelling, testing and costing.

4 hours1 to 4 peopleemail support afterfrom €550
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Coming soon

The Soap to Sell Programme

For anyone serious about launching a soap business who wants to fast-track the process with step-by-step guidance. It takes you from making your first cold process soap, through formulation and production, to understanding exactly what's involved in getting your products ready to sell, applied to your own products and set-up wherever possible.

1Make & developAn in-person session making your first batches together, from ingredients and formulation to the full process.
2Build & sellCuring, testing, packaging, labelling, costing and production, and time to ask everything that's come up.
3Compliance & next stepsReviewing your batches, then working through the compliance process and practical steps to take your products to sale.
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Not sure which is right for you?

Tell Emma a little about your plans and she'll recommend the best place to start.

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