After the soap manufacturing procedure is completed, you need to pack it so that it is beautiful. Elegant packaging for handmade soap makes the present more attractive. If you plan to please a person and somehow surprise him, then packaging will play an important role here. The most unusual packaging is the one made by yourself.
How to make?
There are several packaging options using various materials that are always at hand. For the first option you will need a soap box of the appropriate size. On it you can draw an image and let it dry. It’s nice to decorate the box using the decoupage technique. Now it’s worth putting soap in the resulting beautiful soap dish.
You can make beautiful boxes with your own hands. To do this, small boxes should be fastened together in the manner of a cube or other geometric shape. Here you need a variety of ribbons, colorful paper, rhinestones. First you need to make a drawing on a sheet of paper of any color or on cardboard. It is necessary to cut it and mark out the bends with a pointed tool so that the box can easily fold in those parts where it is necessary.
Then you need to do gluing the boxes, for which rubber glue is suitable. Because of this glue, it will turn out smooth and will not frown. Excess glue is removed with a conventional stationery eraser. You can fasten the walls of the box with a stapler, scotch tape, without the use of fasteners, if you have small skills in origami art.
At the next stage, the box must be decorated with ribbons, beads and rhinestones. You can glue small flowers that need to be cut out of paper. Transparent packaging through which it will be possible to examine the soap will look very original. For the production of such packaging, you can use a transparent film.
You can use any available box, wrap it with paper and decorate.
Hand-made soap looks good in packaging made from natural materials. A bag is good, you need to put soap in it, decorate it with a ribbon and stick a label containing some kind of commemorative inscription. You can make packaging for soap from floral felt, it will look expensive and beautiful. The bottom can be made rigid using cardboard. And at the top of the bag to tie a beautiful ribbon, tie a bow. It is better to tighten the ends of the tapes so that they curl beautifully.
The simplest and most effective packaging for DIY soap is food wrap. If you wrap the soap in such a film, then it will retain its aroma and properties for a long time. It is very convenient to use lock bags that are hermetically sealed for such cases. Small bags of organza are sold at retail outlets and soap boutiques. This will be a great container for exquisite handmade soap.
Unpacked soap
Another option is unpacked soap. So, in Western countries, at various places of periodic trade, you can notice soap lined with piles or bars, it all looks very attractive, and the buyer is given soap wrapped in paper. And here there is no need to strain the brain and spend time figuring out how to pack the goods, because the main thing is not packaging, but the properties of soap. But there are certain subtleties.
For starters, here we can attribute the differences between the countries of the West and ours. In the West, they believe that all the attractiveness of handmade is due to the fact that all this is done with your own hands and a soul was invested in it.
Our domestic buyers love and appreciate the appearance; we don’t favor the carelessness that distinguishes handmade products. If the soap is sold without packaging, it will cause a lot of unnecessary questions. Buyers are usually interested in the shelf life and composition of such soap.
Usually, home-made soap without packaging looks good in various bazaars, retail outlets, markets, and with its unusual smell it attracts customers very much. But when transporting to the point of sale, packaging is simply necessary, because, laying out the products in containers, you can beat off the edges, in addition, the smell will not last longer.
Thus, the soap needs to be packaged, and if there is a desire to demonstrate it to the buyer, then some samples can be shown.
Material
Paper, this is probably the only thing you can immediately remember when choosing a packaging for soap made by yourself. The paper packaging is “breathable”, the buyer has the opportunity, without touching the soap with his hands, to smell it. Paper packaging options may be.
- Loved by everyone who loves needlework, kraft paper. Soap can be wrapped in paper and tied with a ribbon, making a bow. Here you can apply another more interesting design packaging and stylize it with old newspapers, intricate patterns.
- Finished paper bags, which will make packaging easy.
- Paper box. At the bottom you need to put some kind of filler. We need more ribbons to make a bow on the box.
Polyethylene is a common packaging option that allows the soap to retain all the necessary properties and prevents the smell from weathering. In recent years, shrink wrap has become widespread. Using it and a hair dryer, you can make packaging that does not differ from industrial packaging.
Sacks made of fabric, flaps of flax or burlap are a good solution for those who like non-standard approaches. From the foregoing, we can conclude that for soap made by yourself, there are many packaging options.
But in order not to create unnecessary trouble for yourself, you do not need to use expensive material, which is hard to buy. After all, the main thing is not what is outside, but what is inside.
In the next video, 11 packaging options for handmade soap are waiting for you.
