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Soap

Soap pricing calculator

Find your cost per bar with packaging, labor, overhead and sales tax on supplies. Then see your profit and margin at your retail price and at a wholesale price.

Cost per bar
Profit, margin and markup
Healthy, caution or weak margin check

See it work with our numbers from The Soapbox.

How do you want to enter ingredients?

1 · What one batch costs Grey numbers are examples. Type yours.

Ingredients ($)Oils, butters, lye, milk, fragrance, colorants Bars per batchAfter cutting, not what you hoped for Packaging ($ per batch)Boxes, bands, labels Your time ($ per batch)e.g. 3 hours × $20 Overhead ($ per batch)Molds, utilities, fees, a share of rent Sales tax paid on supplies (%)Leave 0 if you don't pay it

2 · Your price

Retail price per bar ($)

Or try a markup

The example is a 48-bar Goat Milk & Honey batch: $62.59 of ingredients, $16.80 packaging, 3 hours at $20, $18.25 overhead and 7% tax on supplies.

Your numbers

Cost to make one bar

$3.40

Profit per bar at $12.00

$8.60

Margin 71.7% Healthy Markup 3.5×

Profit per batch

$412.80

Batch cost

$163.20

Wholesale at half retail

$6.00

Wholesale margin

43.3%

Each bar keeps $8.60 at retail and $2.60 at wholesale.

Cost per bar = (ingredients + packaging, plus tax on both, + your time + overhead) ÷ bars. Margin = profit ÷ price. The badge uses the same bands as CraftWiseApp: 50% and up is healthy, 25–50% is caution, under 25% is weak.

Ingredient prices change. In CraftWiseApp, your cost per bar updates from your stockroom, so your margin is never out of date.

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Balms, bombs, candles & more

Handmade product pricing calculator

Cost to make and profit margin for lip balm, bath bombs, whipped tallow, body butter, candles, lotion and anything else you make in batches. Packaging is counted per jar, tube or candle.

Cost per unit, with packaging and your time
Profit, margin and markup
Retail and wholesale side by side

What are you pricing?

This only changes the words (jar, tube, candle). The math is the same for every product.

See it work with our numbers from The Soapbox.

How do you want to enter ingredients?

1 · What one batch costs Grey numbers are examples. Type yours.

Ingredients ($ per batch)Butters, oils, wax, fragrance, colorants Jars per batchWhat you can actually sell Packaging ($ per jar)Jar and lid, label, shrink band Your time ($ per batch)e.g. 1 hour × $20 Overhead ($ per batch)Utilities, fees, a share of rent Sales tax paid on supplies (%)Leave 0 if you don't pay it

2 · Your price

Retail price per jar ($)

Or try a markup

The example is a real 13-jar batch of whipped tallow: $5.49 of ingredients, $1.04 of packaging per jar, 1 hour at $20, $5 overhead and 7% tax on supplies.

Your numbers

Cost to make one jar

$3.49

Profit per jar at $15.00

$11.51

Margin 76.7% Healthy Markup 4.3×

Profit per batch

$149.66

Batch cost

$45.34

Wholesale at half retail

$7.50

Wholesale margin

53.5%

Each jar keeps $11.51 at retail and $4.01 at wholesale.

Cost per jar = (ingredients + packaging for every jar, plus tax on both, + your time + overhead) ÷ jars. Margin = profit ÷ price. 50% and up is healthy, 25–50% is caution, under 25% is weak.

Supplier prices change. In CraftWiseApp, your cost per jar updates from your stockroom, so your margin is never out of date.

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Selling to shops

Wholesale pricing calculator

See what a shop will pay you and what you keep, for one product or a multi-product order, plus the lowest price that protects your margin.

Wholesale price and what you keep
Per unit, per case and per order
Flags products under your minimum margin

See it work with our numbers from The Soapbox.

How detailed do you want to be?

Wholesale discount off retail

or %

Many shops expect about half of retail (often called keystone).

Lowest margin you'll accept (%)Your profit as a share of the wholesale price

Your productGrey numbers are examples. Type yours.

Cost to make one ($) Your retail price ($)What customers pay you directly Units per caseHow you pack for shops

The example is a real jar of whipped tallow: $3.49 to make, $15 retail.

Wholesale numbers

Wholesale price

$7.50

You keep per unit

$4.01

Your wholesale margin 53.5%At or above your 50%

One case of 12

$90.00

You keep per case

$48.12

Shop keeps per unit

$7.50 (50%)

Lowest wholesale price

$6.98

To keep 50% at wholesale, sell to shops for at least $6.98, so a retail price of at least $13.96.

Wholesale price = retail × (1 − discount). Margin = (wholesale − cost) ÷ wholesale. Lowest wholesale price = cost ÷ (1 − your lowest margin).

Selling to shops? CraftWiseApp keeps a list of your wholesale shops and logs every order against them.

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Soap

Soap cure date calculator

Enter the day you made your soap and see when it’s ready to use and fully cured, and whether it will be ready for a show.

Ready-to-use and fully cured dates
Cold process, hot process, castile or your own weeks
Show date check
Printable cure cards, 4 or 8 to a page

Craft shows

Craft show profit calculator

Deciding whether to book a show? Enter the booth fee, your other costs, your hours, what each item costs to make and what you expect to sell. Get a rough answer before you pay.

Sales needed to break even
Estimated profit after every cost
Profit per hour at the show

See it work with our numbers from The Soapbox.

How detailed do you want to be?

Booth fee ($) Other show costs ($)Gas, hotel, table rental, bags Hours at the showSetup, selling and teardown

Your products, on average

Average price per item ($) Cost to make each item ($)Ingredients and packaging Items you expect to sell

The example: a three-day fair with a $350 booth, $290 of other costs (two hotel nights, gas, bags), and 300 bars of soap that sell for $12 and cost $3.40 each to make.

Estimated result

Estimated take-home profit

$1,940.00

You come out ahead after every cost, including what the products cost to make.

Sales

$3,600.00

Total costs

$1,660.00

Items to cover costs

75 items

Profit per hour

$80.83

You cover your show costs with item 75; the other 225 are profit.

Total costs = booth fee + other costs + (cost to make × items sold). Items to cover costs = how many sales pay for the booth fee and other costs; every sale after that is profit.

Want the real number? Track the show in CraftWiseApp and every sale uses its own batch cost.

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Selling online

Etsy fee calculator

See every US Etsy fee on a sale, what Etsy deposits, and what you keep after your costs and shipping.

Listing, transaction, processing and Offsite Ads fees
Step-by-step breakdown of each sale
The lowest price for the margin you want

See it work with our numbers from The Soapbox.

The saleGrey numbers are examples. Type yours.

Item price ($)The price on your listing How many in the orderLeave blank for 1 Shipping you charge ($)0 if you offer free shipping Buyer's sales tax (%)Etsy collects it, but card fees include it

Your costs

Cost to make one ($) What shipping really costs you ($)Postage plus box or mailer and filler. Example: $6.47 postage + 47¢ box + 20¢ crinkle paper

Did this sale come from an Offsite Ad?

Etsy fees used (US, checked Oct 18, 2026)

Listing fee per item sold ($) Transaction fee (%) Payment processing (%) Processing per order ($)

Change these if Etsy changes its fees or you sell from outside the US.

Your Etsy sale

You keep (profit)

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Etsy fees

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Add your item price to see your Etsy fees.

Price for the margin you want

I want to keep % of each sale

Add your price and costs to see this.

This is an estimateEtsy can change its fees at any time, and your real fees depend on your shop, your buyer's location and Etsy's rounding. Always check Etsy's Fees & Payments Policy and your Etsy Payment account for your true figures. CraftWiseApp is not affiliated with Etsy, Inc.

Know your real cost before you set a price. CraftWiseApp works out the cost of every batch for you.

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Good to know

Your numbers, your answer

Each calculator runs in your browser. Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere, so refreshing the page clears it. Results are estimates based on the numbers you enter.

What you won’t find here

We don’t make lye calculators, or anything that sets amounts of safety-sensitive ingredients like fragrance or essential oil usage rates. For those, use a dedicated, trusted lye calculator and your supplier’s guidance.

When you’re ready

Keep your numbers in one place

The calculators answer one question at a time. CraftWiseApp keeps your recipes, stockroom prices, batches, shows and sales together, so your costs stay current without retyping them.

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Questions

Are these tools really free?

Yes. They work right on the page with no account and no email address.

Do you save what I type?

No. The calculators run in your browser and nothing is sent to us. To keep your numbers, create a free CraftWiseApp account.

Do you have a lye calculator?

No, and we won’t make one. Always use a dedicated, trusted lye calculator for your recipe.

How accurate are the results?

They are only as good as the numbers you enter. Treat them as estimates to help you decide, not a guarantee.