Recommended Suppliers
This is a list of favourite suppliers and service providers.
Rest assured, I will only recommend companies that I either use myself and am 100% happy with or are recommended by others whose opinion I value.
Just A Soap - high quality and competitively priced ingredients for soap making and other cosmetics. Includes essential and fragrance oils, butters, oils, bases, colours, packaging and so much more. Gordon is super helpful and speedy delivery too and you are supporting a small business.
Mystic Moments - great range of fragrance and essential oils, moulds, butters, oils, clays, colours and gifts. Use this link to get £5 off your first order , new customers only and min £25 spend required. (sign up to their email list required - details when you click on the link - transparency - I get a £5 voucher too but I do love Mystic Moments and they are a fantastic supplier)
Freshskin - large range of good value essential oils, fragrance oils and quality supplies for candle making, soap making and homemade beauty products.
The Crafters Shop - sell a wide range of ingredients and they also have fixed cosmetic safety assessments available on a variety of bath products such as bath bombs and melts
The Soapery - essential oils, to carrier oils, soap making supplies, candle making supplies, waxes, melt and pour soap bases and much more, you'll find them all at The Soapery.
Polly's Petals - if you like to put botanicals on top of your soap Cara and the team at Polly's Petals have the biggest selection. You really will be spoilt for choice.
Naturally Thinking sell a huge range of ingredients and skincare products including plant extracts and essential oils that they grow on their own farm. The range is huge so best browsed when you have some time to spare.
MAF - Need Cosmetic Assessments? Michael at MAF provides efficient, cost-effective and professional Cosmetic Product Safety Reports (CPSR), advice and consultancy. Assessments include pre assessed soaps, bath products, syndet bars, cosmetic emulsions, beard and hair care etc or you can submit your own recipes and variants.
Cozy Owl are suppliers of all things soap and candle making - they have a huge selection of fragrance oils and so much more. They have also generously given us a 5% discount code across the site. Just use this link when you browse and add anything to your basket - the discount will automatically be applied. If you are a Soap Suite member go and check out the Member Perks & Discounts section for a code especially for you.
Craftovator are a huge supplier of all things soap, candle and other perfume products. Includes raw materials, botanicals, essential oils and fragrance oil products.
All the companies listed above support me in The Soap Suite with member discount codes. The Soap Suite is for soap business owners who want step their business up a level with trainings, support, resources, coaching and mentoring all in one place at a low monthly cost.
Eco Craft - wide range of eco/compostable postal and product packaging. Too much to describe here, do have a browse.
Kite Packaging - great for all sizes of cardboard postal boxes, tissue paper, crafts paper and paper tape (top tip you will have to use solvent based or it does not stick to itself)
Craftastik - a great range of fragrance oils, micas and other soap making ingredients (including sodium hydroxide)
Candleshack - a lovey range of fragrance oils that are suitable for body products too plus, if you are looking at getting in to candle making, a learning space too.
Naturally Balmy - wide range of ingredients, packaging, assessments, ready made products and more. Too much to list, have a browse on the website.
Oakley Weigh - suppliers of weighing scales for all industries but they also have a range of trade and non trade approved scales for soap makers.
Dr Sara Robb Mainly serving beekeepers and those who like to use honey and bees wax in their products Sara gives talks around the country and also has a whole host of recipes and also ready formulated CPSR available. You don't need to be a bee keeper to make use of her products and services though. Do have a browse on her website for inspiration.