Soap Cost Calculator
Work out what every batch and every bar costs you, from each oil to your time, then set wholesale and retail prices you can be confident in.
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Works out what each bar of soap costs you to make, and suggests wholesale and retail prices if you sell.
You'll need
Your recipe, and what you paid for anything you didn't buy from Nurture. Nurture prices fill in by themselves.
Example loaded: a 2 lb batch of Nurture Soap Blend with Oatmeal, Milk & Honey fragrance, Yell-Oh! mica and sodium lactate, all priced from Nurture. Scroll down to see the cost per bar and the suggested prices. Press Start a new batch to begin your own.
Example loaded: the same 2 lb batch, with each oil in the Nurture Soap Blend listed on its own (40% olive, 25% coconut, 25% palm, 5% sweet almond, 5% castor). Type what you paid for each oil to see your cost, or compare it with the first example to see what the blend saves you.
What does a bar cost me?
Made your recipe in our Lye Calculator? Click Cost this recipe on that page and it comes straight in here. Then just add what you paid. Tip: recipes you save in the Lye Calculator show up here too.
Type an oil, fragrance, color, additive or botanical. We'll sort it and use today's price for anything we sell.
More options
Count only the bars you can sell. The waste allowance covers ingredients lost to spills, trimming and test bars.
See the breakdown
| Item | Amount | You pay | Batch cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total for the batch | $0.00 | 100% |
Buy these from Nurture
The cheapest mix of package sizes for everything priced from Nurture.
| Buy | Price |
|---|---|
| Total | $0.00 |
What should I charge?
Add packaging, your time and running costs, then pick how you price.
Packaging and labels
Your time
Running costs
Rent, utilities, insurance, website, market fees: what you pay each month no matter how much you make, shared across the bars you sell.
Pricing
The Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild suggests at least 2.5× for wholesale.
What Etsy, your card reader or a market takes from each sale. Used to show your profit.
Nurture prices are regular prices before sales and shipping; include shipping in what you paid for anything else. Lye uses each oil's SAP value (oils we don't recognize use an average): check every recipe in a lye calculator before making soap. Teaspoons are about 2 g; liquid oils weigh about 0.92 g per ml. Your batch and the prices you paid are saved in this browser.
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These tools are new, and we're still fine-tuning them. If something looks off, like a number that doesn't add up, a missing product or a confusing step, email us at our contact page and we'll fix it. Have an idea, or a tool you'd like us to make? We'd love to hear that too!
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