My Cup of Tea

I just can't believe I am making soap now. In 2003, when my father told me to try the soapmaking business I did not pay attention with his words because I thought it would be very difficult. My father, who had been doing a community service in our place for quite sometime now, tried soapmaking (both laundry and bath soaps) as part of the livelihood project, a kind of activity that can benefit the community.  He discontinued the project because the ingredients and the soap base were very difficult to find, it should be shipped from Manila first and the process of obtaining these raw materials was so taxing. Then years passed....last December 2011 when I returned home, my father mentioned the soapmaking again, at that time I was agonizing over what kind of product to use in my business plan for export, our final requirement for Global Marketing, one of my subjects in the graduate school. Since my market is South Korea, I'd decided to make my own organic soap. I'd