Interview with Katie of Royalty Soaps
There's a good chance you know Katie with Royalty Soaps. She's been making soap for 11 years and her YouTube channel has almost a million subscribers. For good reason - she has an infectious personality. You can't help but smile along with her as she makes colorful cold process soap, tests candle kits, and reacts to viral videos. Get to know Katie below!
How long have
you been making soap, and how did you get started?
I've been making soap for 11 years now! I will have owned Royalty Soaps
for 10 years on September 15, 2021. I got started when my mom signed me up for a
"Candle and Soap Making" class at my local homeschool co-op when I
was a junior in high
school!
What inspires you to
create?
When it comes to drawing inspiration for my
soap designs and my daily work, I often hearken back to favorite childhood memories
and think about the sights, smells, and sensations that made them so special to me.
I also often find inspiration in beautiful movies, food, and dessert! I can also
always count on feeling creatively invigorated after perusing curated and stylized
photoshoots of people, places, and spaces. Pinterest, Instagram (sometimes, lol),
and magazines often do the trick for that!
What is
your favorite type of product to make?
Three words:
cold. process. soap. Haha!
How
did you come up with the name for your business?
Okay, the answer may surprise y'all, but it's the truth! I used one of
those word cloud generators online and entered a bunch of words I liked and wanted
to associate with my business, and tried a bunch of different pairings and combos by
writing them down, saying them aloud, asking my family what they thought, etc.
Royalty Soaps ended up being the combination I liked best, and it's stuck ever
since!
What advice would you
give to someone just starting their business?
I would
advise beginner business owners to make themselves stand apart from their
competitors by choosing to pursue something that is unique yet defined. I think it's
important to know that what works for someone else may not work for you, and that
includes every part of running a business, including the types of products you
choose to make, how you price them,
etc.
Have you ever experienced a
fail? How did you work through it, and what did you learn?
Oh yes, I've failed many times, haha! It still happens, even after 11
years of soap making. When I do fail, I tend to quickly brush it off my shoulders
and recognize that it's part of the learning process that helps me to continually
improve my soap making skills!
Tell us
something unusual or unique about yourself! Any other hobbies or interests you're
passionate about?
People may not know how much I've
gotten into interior decorating in the last couple of years. I'm really looking
forward to sharing more of that side of me with the people who watch my videos, but
yeah, I'm really into interior decorating right now. On the side, I also like
gardening, nail art, and decorating cakes and
cookies!
What is your favorite Bramble
Berry product?
I love so many Bramble Berry products,
but I have to go with the 5
lb. Mold with Sliding Bottom and silicone liner. It's been
my mold of choice for eight years for a reason!
What
are your plans for Royalty Soaps moving forward?
Well, in the next three years, I would like to release two new product
lines, create more fun YouTube and TikTok content, and continue to serve my local
Poetry, Texas community through Royalty Soaps!
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