Soap Happens

When I first read this article about Debbie McCormack, principal of Voda Soap in New Haven, I read a very familiar story - a woman who tried making soaps for Christmas gifts, got popular, started a business, and then took it from there. She says, ""Everyone started buying soap from me immediately. I had lots of soap to sell and it worked out really good. Literally, it just became a business." At the recent Texas Soapmakers Association convention, one of the speakers made a similar comment, and the whole audience nodded and laughed in agreement. It just seems to be a very common way that we all get hooked on making soap. But if you go to the Voda Soap website, you'll see that Debbie's soaps are anything but common. They're really gorgeous...and the website looks as professional as any I've seen selling handcrafted soap. That sort of attention to detail both in the soap crafting and in the soap selling leads the customer to feel that the soap itself has been made with attention to detail.