Resource Center
Get the facts! You can trust the HSCG to provide unbiased, expert instruction and information – free of sales pitches or product promotion.
From basic recipes to advanced techniques, learn best practices that are clearly explained by experienced makers. You'll also find valuable legal, financial, and marketing tools to promote and protect your business. We also offer expert guidance, classes, and certification to advance your skills.
How-To Instructions
Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned pro, our videos, podcasts and reference materials will improve your skills and try new techniques and expand your product line.
Business Tools
Looking for a legal explanation or template for tracking taxes? Our maker-experts share tips and tools to help you start and grow your business.
Personalized Learning
Want a more interactive experience? Our classes and certification program can boost your credentials. We also offer one-on-one coaching and consultation from a team of experts with specific experience.
Master Maker Podcast
Welcome to the Master Maker Podcast - your resource for the business of handcrafted.
HSCG Blog Posts
Cut to the Trace is a blog curated by the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild, a non-profit trade association that serves those who make handcrafted soap, cosmetics, and candles!
MoCRA Quiz & Resources
MoCRA is the Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act of 2022. It was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President on December 29, 2022. Learn more about MoCRA and take the quiz to test your knowledge.
Product & Price Calculators
Save time and money with free tools help create the perfect product.
Supplies & Services
Amazing products call for quality supplies and equipment, and that’s what you’ll find with HSCG Vendors!
Marie's Corner
If you're looking for labeling and compliance resources, come visit Marie's Corner, where she explores what you can (and cannot) put on your label and how to navigate regulations.
Making Soap
Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned pro, our videos, podcasts and reference materials will improve your skills and try new techniques and expand your product line.
Making Cosmetics
Learn about how to make all types of handcrafted cosmetics such as lotions, creams and scrubs, including how to select ingredients, preservation systems, safety and equipment and more.
Making Candles & Other Products
Find out how other products you can make to go along with your existing handcrafted soap and cosmetic products including candles, potpourri, room spays, household scent products and more.
About Fragrance, Oils and Ingredients
Understanding fragrances, essential oils and ingredients used in making handcrafted soap and cosmetics. Selecting, blending, and how to use them.
Business & Finance
How to set up your business and finances, create budgets, register your business, sales taxes - all you need to get your business off the ground with financial and inventory systems set up.
Marketing & Promotion
Find out different ways to market your business and promote your products. Branding, social media, press releases and more ways to get your business and products known.
Legal & Compliance
What you need to know about the legal requirements and federal, state and local regulations for making and selling handcrafted soap and cosmetics.
Expert Coaching & Consultation
Our HSCG Experts are available to provide consultations to HSCG members.
HSCG Certifications
Members of the Handcrafted Soap and Cosmetic Guild can participate in the Member Soap and Cosmetic Maker Certification Program. Pay for your Certification online!
Explore Classes
From fundamentals to new techniques, our member-taught classes help you grow. All instructors participate in the HSCG Teacher Program and hold at least one HSCG Soapmaker Certification. The HSCG shares these listings but doesn’t endorse specific results. Contact the teacher for arrangements; payment is made to them.
Find a Teacher
Connect with approved HSCG teachers nationwide. All instructors are certified through our program and meet strict standards. Explore classes by location/date; some vendors list teachers via an approved company representative. Members get monthly class eNews (non-members can register to receive it).
About MoCRA
Ensuring the safety of cosmetic products sold in the United States is the key concern of MoCRA. It also gives the FDA some additional authority that was overlooked when the law was written in 1938.
Take the MoCRA Quiz
See if you need to comply with new legislation.
All MoCRA Resources
View all current MoCRA articles available on the HSCG site.
HSCG Lye Calculator
Unlike other lye calculators, the HSCG Lye Calculator provides an expected range of SAP Value and can calculate by amount or percentage.
HSCG Price Calculator
Trying to price your product? Our HSCG Price Calculator is adjustable to fit your needs.
Ingredient Database
Members have access to the HSCG Ingredient Database to verify an ingredient declaration is correct.
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