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Fair Ivy Wants to Buy YOUR Soap

Filed Under: Business Musings

Fair Ivy is a fun happy subscription where you receive a surprise package of carefully curated items in the mail every month. Really? A surprise package? How fun is that? The business started over a cup of coffee and the observation that we, as adults, never get packages in the mail anymore. And if we do, we already know what’s inside (hello Amazon, Zappos and Etsy). Based on that observation, the surprise package subscription was created. Read the history of Fair Ivy here.
There are several categories to choose from when you subscribe; Girls and Teens, Women, Men and even Pets (remember when Toby was a puppy?).
Here’s what our first Fair Ivy surprise package looked like.
Our kit came with some matchstick plant seeds, mushroom decals, a knitted heart and the cutest stacked teacups mug. The blue fabric in the mug is a scarf with robot decal (so techy chic).

Mini grapefruit earrings inside the cutely packaged cupcake box.

The Contest

Do you have a small soap business or have you always dreamed of getting your soap business off the ground?  Then keep reading. We’re offering you a chance to win a big sale! We’ve created a contest with Fair Ivy that will benefit our customers and theirs. Fair Ivy is looking for a toiletry product to include in their surprise boxes and that’s where you come in. We know how talented our customers are and think something YOU make would be great for a Fair Ivy subscription.
How to Enter
Send us your Fair Ivy submission by Friday April 8th. Remember to send a quantity of two.
  • Ship to: Bramble Berry Inc.
  • C/O Fair Ivy Contest
  • 2138 Humboldt Street
  • Bellingham, WA 98225
What to Enter
Anything in the toiletry department; Soaps, Lotions, Scrubs, Candles, Creams. If you have any questions just email contest(at)brambleberry(dot)com.

Entries

The Bramble Berry team will test each product and decide on the top 3.

Finalists

We’ll send the finalists over to Fair Ivy who will will choose the grand prize winner to include in their surprise packages.

The Winner

Fair Ivy will purchase a quantity of 50 of your product at $4 each (with room to go up to $6 if the product is out-of-this-world amazing). Please note that Bramble Berry and its affiliates, including Soap Queen, are not responsible for anything having to do with the Purchase Order, Payment etc… We are just handing off the best soaps and leave it up to you, the crafter, to negotiate terms with Fair Ivy.
The Fine Print

Make sure to label your product with ingredients, your name, company and contact information.
Please keep the cost of supplies in mind. If you win, Fair Ivy will be paying $4 for your product.

Benefits of the Contest

Get your name out there! We’ll be blogging entries as they come in
Could this be your first wholesale account?
Have you always wanted to start your business? This is the perfect opportunity to take that chance.
All participants will be entered in a drawing to win some of the extra goodies!
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57 Comments

  1. Wow!! All these products look amazing!! Such beautiful work!! I better start practicing!!

  2. I’m a late entry here, but I’m sending out 2 bars of my favorite soap and 2 of my whipped shea butters. I hope you like them! I would love some feedback on the whipped butter if you have the time – no matter what the end results are. I will put an extra bottle in for you, Ann-Marie. I’m so excited about this contest! Shipping my goodies today.

    • Great! We can’t wait to get them and check ’em out! And, thank you so much for the sweet extras. You’re too kind. =)

    • The key will be if you can get your product to Fair Ivy for $6ish or so per bar and since you can use the US Postal Service Flat Rate boxes, you might be able to do that but definitely do the math before entering. Though, I will admit that I would love to see your stuff in person! =)

  9. are they looking for stuff geared more for adults or kids? or is everything fair game?

  14. I’m so sorry, Polly. We will not be able accommodate international entries for this contest =(

    • Thanks Anne Marie for letting me know It is a fabulous competition and I can;t wait to see who wins xx

  16. So sorry to say that we will not be able accommodate international entries (sad face).

  17. OH MY GOODNESS!!! How FUN! I just got my birthday present in the mail today!! A box full of fun Bramble Berry items!! YAY!!! I just stumbled upon your blog and fell in LOVE with the bath fizzy cupcakes! I made my first batch with my 8 year old daughter. They turned out AWESOME! She couldn’t wait for them to dry and just had to use one right away! 🙂 Now I’m looking into making solid bubble bath! YeeHaw!!! It’s been a while since I made candles and lotions, but you’ve got me all excited about starting up again! Thank you Anne-Marie!!!

    Karen
    http://rk-creations.com

  20. I’ve never done wholesale but I figured why not try right?!?! Anyways so excited and I just sent out my two bars of soap today! 🙂

  21. I am so kicking myself in the rear that I didn’t think of this. Christmas, every month!

  22. Bramble Berry needs your submission by Friday April 8th and remember to send a quantity of 2 (see ‘how to enter’ in the blog post). The deadline for the winner is up for negotiation with Fair Ivy, my guess would be at least 4 weeks (maybe longer).

  24. You can send as many as you want but we are only sending on 3 products to Fair Ivy. We’re doing all the sorting and excited to send on three great entries.

  25. what is the deadline for entries? Then what would the deadline be for the product if yours is the one picked?

  26. Oh how exciting!!! I most definitely will be entering this contest. I’m a small local business and I would LOVE to help it grow! Thanks for passing this on to us Anne Marie. Now it’s just deciding on something perfect to send in. Are we only limited to one product entry?

  28. Whimsy, cute, cool and trendy seems to be their style for sure. They seemed to prize good design too. I really noticed that with the goodies we got in our two surprise boxes – definitely good, well thought out, clean design.

  32. sounds totally wonderful. it looks like whimsical/cutesy is their MO? yes?
    thinking….thinking!

  35. We’re hoping so. We were excited when Fair Ivy came up with the fun idea and we can’t wait to curate the choices. =)

  36. Thanks! That is fantastic – we are hoping this opportunity is a win-win for Fair Ivy and our customers and soaping friends are able to get a new stable wholesale client.

  37. We’re excited about it; we’ve never tried anything like this so we’re hoping it works out well for everyone involved =)

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