Soap Glut : Out With The Old, In With The New.

When I first started our little company, I was making soap in the kitchen and work had to be completed, cleared up and put away in time to make dinner. That couldn't last long, so I soon took over a spare bedroom, then the dining room, then the hall way . . . We were in danger of being squeezed out of house and home by boxes of soap and soap equipment. That's when a friend came to the rescue and offered to rent me a small building on her farm with its fabulous views over the Conwy Valley. Lovely! We got it all spruced up and kitted out and it was heaven working up at the farm, listening to the cows, joining in with lambing and having loads of animal friends to talk to during soaping breaks. This happy arrangement unfortunately had to come to an end as eventually we ended up busting at the seams and it was difficult to manoeuvre pallets down the ramp and onto the lorries which lumbered up to the farm along the bumpy track. So we moved down to our local business park, first renting one unit and then, when that quickly became too small, renting a second one. Consequently, we have spent the last few years running between the two, ferrying supplies and equipment backwards and forwards as needed.

Luckily enough, a bigger unit has become available on the same business park and so we are on the move to Unit 3!!. It is already partitioned off into separate work spaces, offices and storage, is fully shelved and has lovely space heaters and fans to keep us toasty/cool while we work. We even have a loading bay! Right now we are marvelling at all that space and running around like kids at a wedding, but we will soon have those shelves full, equipment installed, storage stowed, computers plugged in and be ready for a New Year of soaping!