Every small business owner eventually faces a choice: build from scratch or take on something someone else already started. On this episode of BAM BizTALK, Angel Garcia talks with Jamie Goodgame, owner of The Soap Company in Midland, Texas, about what it took to buy an established, home based soap business and grow it into one that now ships across all fifty states.

Topics discussed:

1. How Jamie went from longtime customer to owner of a fourteen year old soap company
2. The six week cold process soap making method, start to finish
3. What separates natural, plant based soap from mass produced commercial bars
4. Saponification and the history behind lye soap
5. Custom and specialty orders made for individual customers
6. The full product line, from 28 soap scents to facial oils and French bl ...