Handmade soap is an art

  This batch of 230g large soap, olive oil, bay leaf, rose, peppermint, goat milk... This batch of high-oil handmade soap uses the hot process method, but the raw materials are all top-notch, with sufficient quantity and a good feel when used, and the price is not high.

  "How much can a bar of soap like this be sold for, including our labor costs and profit?"

  "On average, ten yuan"

  。”

  "Average?"

  "Old customers get a 90% discount. Usually, there's one or two pieces in a batch that can't be sold, look, it's defective, you take it back and use it yourself, for washing face, bathing, even washing hair, but after washing hair, you need to use conditioner, otherwise it'll be too dry. But clothes aren't suitable for washing."

  The weather had turned cold, but Pang Hua was still sweating even though he wore only a single layer of clothing, half from the physical labor and half from nervousness.

  "What if it all goes wrong? If I succeed, I'll only make a hundred..."

  "Alright, that's what we'll do. So I only make three kilograms at a time. But tomorrow we can make two batches, six kilograms, plus twenty bottles of cream. The processing fee for the cream is even lower, but the profit is about the same... yeah, it's that patented formula you guys came up with, the second one, where you split five percent of the sales revenue and the rest is all profit... hey, can you move that sterilization cabinet out a bit and put those jars on the left table into it? I'll go get the labels."

  "Are we each one patented person?"

  "Weren't you three people applying together? So these five are all shared equally among you."

  "Oh."

  "Next time you make one or two yourself, and your doctoral thesis will be done too."

  "It must be good stuff... otherwise, how about an extract?"

  "Just use extracts from domestic plants or Chinese herbal medicine!"

  "Okay. Do you have a research direction?"

  "Uh, hydrating collagen extracted from duckweed? Green tea extract with whitening and anti-inflammatory properties? Pearl extract? Peach extract? Plum extract? Hey, if we make something like this, it won't be worse than pomegranate water. If we emphasize that it's purely natural extracts without any chemical raw materials or preservatives, we can definitely create a knockout product."

  "......Are all you said about food?"

  "Do you know about snails? Snail extract is also an ingredient in beauty products."

  “……”

  "I think, psychologically speaking, Huang Taohuai's is actually a bit better than snail's? Moreover, I don't believe that master's and doctoral research topics will completely deviate from reality and industries that can make money."

  。”

  "I'll give it a try—"

  "But if the store is too small, it's really not suitable for developing our own products. You see, last year just applying for patents ate up all the profits."

  "What's to be done?" When it comes to business, Pang Hua is utterly incompetent.

  "I'll take care of it. Well, anyway, you've bought a house, which is good, at least you won't have to pay rent in the future."

  Chen Huaizhen cooked a simple dinner, with dishes like egg drop soup and diced potatoes with chicken. But what made her meals special was that each one had something new and perhaps a little strange, such as Kung Pao chicken spaghetti or silver fish tofu omelets...or even roasted vegetable baozi.

  But more often they eat ready-made meals in restaurants or canteens.

  This week has been a pleasant period. The quarterly consulting fee from the consulting company has arrived, the labor fee from the translation agency has arrived, and the fixed salary has arrived. Three hundred bottles of the five series of self-formulated products were sold - sales commissions can be divided, she personally wrote that anyone who saw it could only say that the mutually beneficial agreement was clearly stated, and for every 200,000 yuan in sales or every half year, a sales commission is distributed once.

  Fortunately, students enjoy many conveniences and privileges when applying for intellectual property rights; otherwise...

  "It's so little..." Pang Hua couldn't help but mutter. This amount of money isn't even enough to buy a brand-name T-shirt. "But this is still my first time earning money myself."

  "Not for the first time. Last time I gave you two thousand wasn't it your labor cost? You haven't finished yet."

  “……”

  However, the profit at the end of the year may be quite good. I'm going to participate in an activity where suits are packaged and discounted, which will boost my credit and sales volume. Although the final calculation is still cost-effective, as this will advance my search ranking and save me a lot of advertising fees. But you need to be mentally prepared for low profits.

  She started making her own skincare products by hand, but it wasn't very successful, so she simply sold existing "seasonal discount" products instead. Using imported high-end oral serum as a feedback gift for self-made products is probably unprecedented and will never be repeated.

  "It's up to you. I don't understand."

  "Hmm, your English seems pretty good?"

  "It's still okay"

  。”

  "I have a translation job here, you try it." The overly professional manuscript was rejected by several other translators in the translation agency, but she took it on. "I won't charge you an introduction fee. But time is limited to one week, very tight."

  “……”

  Five days later, Pang Hua came to hand in the assignment with dark circles under his eyes. Chen Xuan sent it to the translation agency, and the payment arrived a week later.

  More than 7,000 words of professional Chinese-to-English translation, without deducting agency fees, and the payment is even higher than the patent royalties last time.

  Pang Hua was actually quite at a loss. He didn't know that life, work, and making money could be so difficult, and it was all filled with uncertainty, just to have enough food to eat.

  "Your house is not big, but the rent is 450. You need to get at least one translation job like this every month to pay for the rent and utilities, as well as internet fees."

  "Uh-huh, last month I turned on the air conditioner and took a bath... and the electricity bill exceeded 100 yuan." Pang Hua now knew what her mother was getting at. "Uh-huh, my parents didn't get divorced after all."

  "It shows they still have some feelings and affection for each other."

  "It's also possible that my mom saw my face and thought it was okay." Pang Hua hesitated for half a day before squeezing out a sentence, "Chen Huai Cheng, thank you."

  "Ah, come on, let me take a photo. And try this men's facial mask." At least forty customers specially came to write thank-you notes, but only ten of them actually bought something from her store - verbal thanks are worthless!

  "What else is there?"

  "New products, that's the way! If we don't come up with new products, we're done for! Haven't you noticed how things are always changing? So keep researching. Your doctoral thesis has to be related to our company's business, got it?" Chen Huaicheng didn't share his sentiment about life.

  Next week, there is an on-site translation, and I have to accompany my boss (she drives, the boss sits in the car) to discuss a new case. There are two procedures to be handled... The only good thing is that a patent acceptance notice has been processed, and we can apply for several thousand yuan of rewards from the district science and technology department. Several thousand... That's also money! She generously gave half of it to three students, of course, personal income tax needs to be paid, in case there are disputes in the future due to lack of evidence. The most extreme thing she has ever seen is that two good friends went to court over 3,000 yuan, and then the boss threw this kind of nonsense to her...

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