You can sell it wholesale to retailers, but you will probably get less profit, since you
will be selling it to them for a much lower price than what they will charge the public.
Another option is consignment shops, which operate on a similar, but slightly
different, principle; when selling your soap to a retailer, they pay you the wholesale
price upfront, then attempt to sell your product. If the product doesn’t sell, they lose
the money, not you – but, they probably won’t buy from you again. Consignment
shops, on the other hand, pay you as your product sells; they take a percentage of the
sale price, but it is not as high as the chunk that larger retailers will take. The
disadvantage of selling in a consignment shop is that, if the soap doesn’t sell, you and
the shop lose money. Also, there is typically a limited amount of time that a
consignment shop will keep your merchandise on its shelves.
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