The Professional Membership is for individuals who make handcrafted soap and market it to the public. Benefits for Professional Members are geared toward those things that assist in promoting handcrafted soap, increasing proficiency in the trade, improving business skills, encouraging networking opportunities and providing general exposure for the member's business and products. Professional Membership includes general and product liability insurance.

Benefactor Levels

You can choose to upgrade your membership to a Benefactor Level in the Options section below. Benefactor members receive additional benefits, priority placement of listings and public acknowlegdements for their increased support of the HSMG.

Insurance

The Professional Membership comes with basic insurance, which includes $1 million in product and general liability, and also includes property insurance of $1,000 per item, maximum $5,000 total. These levels may be increased.

• Increased Liability raises your total liability limit to $2 million.
  
  
• Professional Liability covers you if you teach or act as a professional. While the general liability covers you if something happens to someone or if your product is bad, professional liability covers you if you teach someone to do something and they feel you are liable because of the information or advice they got from you.
  
  
• Increased Property raises the amount of property that is covered. There are several levels. The amount shown in the option box below is the total amount you would be covered for.

Membership Information

The membership will be processed with the name, address and contact information submitted in the shopping cart checkout process. Any information already on file within the HSMG will be updated to reflect the contact information submitted in the cart as we assume that is most the most up-to-date information.

Legal Business Name - For Insurance

Your insurance certificate must be issued in the LEGAL BUSINESS NAME you are operating under. In order to ensure you are fully covered, be certain to fill in the legal business name in the field below. Without it there might be an problem if a claim is made under the business name. If you don't have a legal business name (other than your own personal name), put your own name in the box.

Code of Ethics

By joining the Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild, you agree to abide by the HSMG Code of Ethics.

Important Tax Notice

Due to the HSMG’s lobbying and advocacy activities, only 50% of your dues are tax deductible for the calendar year 2012. Please note that this only applies to membership dues, NOT fees paid for product and liability insurance; the dues portion of the membership for Professional Members with insurance is $100 per year. If you have any questions please consult you tax advisor.

PLEASE NOTE: Your membership will be processed in the HSMG office within 1 business day. At that time you will be sent an email with your member number, membership details and HSMG Member Area log-in information.

YOUR SHOPPING CART REGISTRATION LOG IN WILL NOT WORK IN THE MEMBER AREA.