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Ask Anne-Marie – Celebrity Soaper Edition

Filed Under: Business Musings, Tips & Tricks

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As you can imagine, Bramble Berry CEO and Founder Anne-Marie gets a lot of questions. They’re about everything from owning a business to using natural colorants in soap. While she can’t answer them all, that won’t stop her from trying in the newest episode of Ask Anne-Marie. You can watch the first episode here and the second episode here.

This episode has a fun twist. The questions are from some of our favorite soapers – Bee of Sorcery Soap, Sarah of Spicy Pinecone, Kevin of Devinely Designed, and Lane of Mama Bass Handmade Soap. They ask Anne-Marie about her favorite fragrance, the biggest obstacle she faced scaling up her business, and the mentors who helped her along the way. 

Bee of Sorcery Soap:
@0:47 – What soap do you use in the bath? What soap is in there right now?
@1:38 – What is the lowest water discount you use and why?
@2:28 – How long does it take to formulate a new fragrance oil?

Sarah of Spicy Pinecone:
@3:45 – What is the biggest obstacle you had to face when scaling up your business, and how did you overcome it?

Kevin of Devinely Designed:
@5:04 – Now that you have a very successful busy soap business, do you ever just make soap for fun anymore?
@5:52 – You are stranded on a gorgeous tropical island that happens to have a fully stocked soap shack, except it only has one fragrance or essential oil. What is it?

Lane of Mama Bass Handmade Soap:
@6:14 – Have you been creative and crafty since you were a little girl?
@7:00 – When you were first beginning soapmaking, did you have a mentor?
@8:16 – What is your absolute, most favorite fragrance you carry?
@8:53 – I’ve noticed you and I both have very spirited and mischievous little girls! What is your favorite way to entertain her when you’re trying to get things done? Is she crafty like you?

Have a question you’d like to ask Anne-Marie? Leave a comment below and she may answer it in the next edition.

Ask Anne-Marie on Soap Queen TV

Filed Under: Business Musings, Personal Ramblings

Ask Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie and the Bramble Berry team get hundreds of questions every day, across various social media outlets and email. Unfortunately, Anne-Marie can’t answer them all…but she can answer some! In this Soap Queen TV video, Anne-Marie answers questions from Instagram, YouTube, the blog and more.

Questions:
– @1:30 How did you get into the soap making business?

– @2:27 If you could only make and use one soap for the rest of your life, what would it be?

– @3:10 What’s the one item you ‘hate’ to make but people love?

– @3:45 We all have reasons why we love soapmaking, but…what is the worst part in making soap for you? For me it’s definitely washing all the oily dishes 🙂

– @4:33 What is the best piece of advice that you have ever been given?

– @5:32 Is there an alternate ingredient to use in place of the lye? I thought that was a bad ingredient.

– @6:32 What happens to all the soaps that you make in your tutorials? Do you sell them, give them away as gifts, or use them on your own? 🙂

– @7:28 What was your biggest, most horrible soap fail?

– @9:00 When (and how) do your best soap ideas come to you?

– @10:12 What is your all-time favorite fragrance to work with in cold process soaping, and why?

– @11:10 My question is, when taking a cold process recipe, what is the difference between that and making it HP?

– @12:25 How long did it take you to get started on your soaping business??

– @13:44 Do you have a website or Etsy where you sell the actual soap?

Do you have a question that you’d like Anne-Marie to answer in the next “Ask Anne-Marie” video? Leave a comment below. We would love to make these videos a regular series on Soap Queen TV.