WOM’s 2023 Success Story: Dapoore Women’s Soap Making Journey

The Dapoore Women’s group was one of the group that benefit from the black soap and business management training with support fromthe KGL foundation.

The group discovered, while undergoing training on record-keeping and profit determination, that they were facing losses in their bar soap-making business—a realization that took them by surprise. Additionally, they found that the profit margin from their black soap production fell short of the industry standard.

Upon investigating the cause, they identified a crucial issue: despite having a scale, they rarely utilized it to measure raw materials and final products, resulting in uneven soap weights that often exceeded the intended target. Consequently, they continued selling the soap at the regular price, unaware of the discrepancies, leading to their financial losses.

Upon rectifying this by incorporating the scale in their subsequent production processes, their profits surged by 20%.

It is worth noting that, this group was one of the few ones that continued to produce bar soap before the training on black soap and business management training when most of the others had stopped due to losses. They kept injecting capital into their soap-making business not realising that it was not profitable until the training. The group is now more united and has proceeded to keep records for their other businesses too.