Successful Fundraising Ideas for Groups and Clubs

Soap Bars Fundraiser Idea

How to create a successful DIY hand-crafted soap bar sales fundraiser

Did you know that you can make a bar of hand-crafted soap for around $2.00 and sell it for $8.00? If your group or club members are into DIY crafting, then you’ll love the idea of making bars of luxurious hand-crafted soap to sell as a fundraiser. And the best part about this fundraising idea, is that you can keep it going for as long as you like!

If you’re interested in this fundraiser idea and have never made soap, we recommend paying a little extra and going with a melt-and-pour soap base. These already prepared formulations are the easiest and safest way to make soap. Melt-and-pour soap bases can be purchased on Amazon or from various soap making supply companies. The process is pretty simple compared to traditional soap making methods involving lye (or sodium hydroxide).

With melt-and-pour soap, you literally just melt the soap base, add your fragrance oils, moisturizers (if not already included in the soap base), and anything else you want such as herbs, dried flowers, etc. Then you pour the soap solution into your silicone molds and let it cool and harden. Once it’s had time to fully set and cure, it’s ready for your custom labeling and packaging. Most melt-and-pour soap bases come with their own instructions, so just follow those instructions and you should have no issues.

Popular Melt and Pour Soap Bases

Shea Butter
Goat Milk
Oatmeal
Cocoa Butter
Honey
Aloe Vera
Hemp Oil
Olive Oil

To get started with your DIY hand-crafted soap fundraising program, you’ll need to have a website where people can see what you offer and be able to place orders. If you don’t already have a website, you can easily set one up on platforms like Squarespace or Wix. Consider offering several different varieties and fragrances of your soap bars.

Once your soap making products come in from wherever you decide to order them, you can go ahead and make some test bars and create some images of your different soap bar options which you can then post on your website. Use Canva to help create your images. You can also use Canva to create your soap bar labels. Figure out what prices you want to charge for each bar of soap based on the size of each bar and your cost of materials. You’ll probably want to keep your bars in the 4oz to 6oz range. You can also offer 3 bar gift packs with different fragrances. Don’t price yourself short. People will be willing to pay more if they know it’s for a good cause and if they are buying the product as a gift.

As far as selling goes, you can choose to promote and sell within your local community only and offer hand delivery, or you can accept orders nationally and send all your orders through the mail. You can also choose to sell at local events or work with local retail shops to see if they would be willing to stock and sell your soaps.

As far as promoting your hand-crafted soap sales fundraiser, use every tool at your disposal. Push heavily on all your social media channels and have your group spread the word to everyone they know. Promote your product as a great gift idea for special occasions, and be sure to promote the fact that each order goes to support your organization.