Niche Market – 21 Women In Sorsogon In Herbal Soap Making With Assistance By DA-SAAD

 

Here is a different group that the PH Department of Agriculture (DA) under Secretary of Agriculture William Dar via the Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) program of the DA is helping: 21 women in Barangay Taboc, Juban, Sorsogon manufacturing by hand herbal soaps based on extracts from their own garden produce: citrus, carrot, akapulko, and horseradish (malunggay) (Pauline Trixia Borja, 03 February 2021, “DA-ATI Trains SAAD FAs In Sorsogon Develop Herbal Soap As An Enterprise[1],” SAAD.da.gov.ph)  The women are the Taboc Organic Farmers Association. All their soaps use raw materials grown organically:

Health soaps from healthy farms from healthy farmers.

Ms Pauline says the Taboc herbal soap enterprise began in 2017, after a series of trainings carried out by the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) on the making of soap, liniment and ointment, and on turmeric processing. The Taboc women’s group are now creating different variants of their herbal soap.
(soap-making image[2] from Lovely Greens)

The group had suspended its soap-making in that same year because of lack of equipment – and disbanded. However, Ms Pauline says, “the members regrouped and were officially organized by SAAD in September 2018 and registered with the Department of Labor and Employment and Department of Trade Industry in 2019.”

Ms Glumar says her group has established a communal garden from where ingredients for their herbal soaps come from, and the group is earning enough for its members. They sell herbal soaps of 30 grams each for P25 to neighbors and friends, earning P2,000/month.

About the rest of the equipment, the Taboc women herbal soap makers hope these will be provided by the SAAD Program.

According to the section “Herbal Soap Making Business[3]” (ANN, 27 June 2020, Business Diary Philippines), ingredients for making herbal soaps are many as are the functions of these soaps. The ingredients include juices or extracts and vitamins from medicinal plants, fruits and vegetables. “Herbal soaps contain many of the nutrients and essential oils our skin and body needs to nourish and help strengthen the skin’s natural defenses.”

What are the earning potentials of herbal soaps in the Philippines? I have just googled for

“herbal soap” making Philippines

including the double quotes, and gotten 271,000 results. That is, there are so many herbal soap makers today, which indicates rising demand. So how could newcomers compete?

Aside from catering to families in their barangay and all of Sorsogon Province, the ladies of Taboc could produce herbal soaps that have unique ingredients and/or specific uses.

Let me now list the possible raw materials you can use to manufacture herbal or organic soaps using plants themselves, fruits, flowers or vegetables, based on my Internet searches:

(1) banana

(2) calamansi

(3) carrot

(4) chocolate

(5) cucumber

(6) guava

(7) kamias

(8) lemon

(9) lemon grass

(10) luffa

(11) mangosteen

(12) oatmeal

(13) papaya

(14) radish

(15) tomato

(16) virgin coconut oil

(17) vitamin E.

With rich prospects like those above, the Taboc ladies have no reason but to grow richer according to their labors.@LIBs

 


[1]http://saad.da.gov.ph/2021/02/da-ati-trains-saad-fas-in-sorsogon-develop-herbal-soap-as-an-enterprise/?fbclid=IwAR1Dp8oTPmR8TIwIk7As7xfdjU30lmmjHS7inE2m5uNqoPqCh3xPedJF3Bk

[2]https://lovelygreens.com/natural-soapmaking-for-beginners/

[3]https://businessdiary.com.ph/864/herbal-soap-making-business/

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