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6 Production Businesses You Can Start with 3000 or Less|Plus Step by Step Guide.

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Starting a small business can be daunting. This is especially so when it comes to garnering enough start-up capital. But what if i told you there are business you can start with 3000 or less?Not recharge card selling business but business that could yield profit if done right?
Take a look at these recipes for products that people buy everyday and build a business from them.

LAUNDRY SOAP.

Two things- Make sure it has good foaming so that it cleans cloths properly.

Make sure you have good packaging as the market is already saturate.

Equipment Needed for Production

Mixer with stirrer
Casting moulds
Heater
Cutter (knife)
Shaping machine
Stamping machine
Hydrometer
Weighing scale
Measuring container
Packaging materials

You only need all this if you want to go large scale. If you are a beginner- try improvising with small household tools.

RECIPE

Chemicals and their Quantity
Caustic Soda 1KG
Palm kernel oil 6 LITRES
Soda ash 0.5KG
Silicate 160 LITRES
Sodium sulphate 160 LITRES
Colourant TO TASTE
Water 4.5 LITRES
Fragrance TO TASTE
Forming agent TO TASTE

PROCEDURE

Prepare the caustic soda solution by dissolving 1kg of caustic soda in 4.5 litres of water; confirm that it was a density of 1275kg/m3. Allow the solution to stand and blend for at least 3 days. Please ensure that you leave them to stand for this time or even more (the longer the better), to avoid your soap being corrosive to the users’ skin and cloths.

Add the soda ash to the caustic soda solution, stirring vigorously until well blended.

Add the colourant to the solution and continue stirring

Add all the palm kernel oil to the mixture and continue stirring vigorously in a clockwise direction only for some time

Add the forming agent and silicate and continue stirring

Add the frangrance and pour into moulds and allow solidification for 24 hours

Stamp, shape and package and you are ready for the market.

2. TOILET SOAP

Toilet soaps are soaps that are mainly used for bathing and as such must be foamy and have very nice fragrance with attractive colouring. It must also feel good on the skin.

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED

Same as in production of laundry soap

FORMULATION TABLE

Chemicals required and their quantity
Palm kernel oil 3 LITRES
Caustic soda 1 KG
Coconut oil 2 LITRES
Bleached palm oil 1 LITRE
Silicate 1 LITRE
Colourant TO TASTE
Perfume TO TASTE
Titanium dioxide
Glycerine

PROCEDURE

Prepare the caustic soda solution as done in the laundry soap

Pour all the oil into the mixer and start heating

When it is warm, add colourant and mix properly till uniformly blend

Add the caustic soda solution and continue boiling and stirring

When all have blended, add sodium silicate and turn off the heater

When the temperature drops, add the frangrance

Stir slowly and pour into moulds

Allow to harden for 6-8 hours

Shape, stamp and package for the market

With these two tutorials, you can be in serious business. For the production of laundry soap, you need approximately ₦3000 to start up in small scale and you are sure to make between ₦5000 to ₦7000 as returns in less than a week, depending on your market.

FOR MARKETING, YOU CAN START WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD, CHURCH, WORKPLACE, MOTOR PARK, OR HOUSE TO HOUSE MARKETING.

ALSO NOTE THAT YOU WILL NEED NAFDAC APPROVAL TO ADD CREDENCE TO YOUR PRODUCTS.

3. MEDICATED SOAP

Medicated soap contain additives that helps kill germs and other micro organisms. They can also have other functions like skin toning and age defying agents.

EQUIPMENT

Same as in the production of laundry soap

FORMULATION

Chemicals required and their quantities
Palm kernel oil 3LITRES
Caustic soda solution 3 LITRES
Coconut oil 2 LITRES
Bleached palm oil 1 LITRE
Sodium silicate 1LITRE
Colourant TO TASTE
Perfume TO TASTE
Glycerine ¼ LITRES
Tricolans (TCC) 1 TABLESPOON
Borax
Magnesium sulphate

PROCEDURE

Prepare the caustic soda solution as described in laundry soap production above. Ensure that the density of the solution is as stated.

Dissolve magnesium sulphate and borax separately with small amount of water to form paste

Pour the soda ash into caustic soda solution and continue stirring

Add the colourant to the caustic soda solution and stir very well

Pour the oils into the caustic solution mixture and continue stirring vigorously in clockwise direction only.

Add the silicate and continue stirring

Then add glycerine, pink oil, tricolans, magnesium sulphate, borax and fragrance

Continue stirring until all the chemicals have mixed very well

Pour into soap moulds and allow solidifying.

Shape, stamp and package ready for the market

4.POWDERY DETERGENT

You are advised to ensure that you keep strictly to the formulation.

EQUIPMENT

Same as in the production of laundry soap plus drier and pulveriser (mesh net)

FORMULATION TABLE

Chemicals and the required quantity
Palm kernel oil or fatty acid 4 LITRES
Caustic soda 1 KG
Soda ash 2 KG
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) ½ LITRES
Ammonium 30 MILI LITRES (MLS)
Industrial salt (Na2CO3) 150 MLS
Colourant TO TASTE
Perfume TO TASTE
Foaming agent 250 MLS
Sulphuric acid 30 MLS

PROCEDURE

Prepare the caustic soda solution as described in the production of laundry soap and ensure that the density is at the stated value.

Allow to stand for three days (72 hrs) minimum. You can allow it to stand for more than three days if you want but should not use when it is not up to 3 days.

The reason why some powdery detergent is corrosive is because the caustic soda did not blend long enough in water before starting the production process.

Add the soda ash to the caustic soda solution and stir very well until uniformly blended

Pour the palm kernel oil into the mixture and add the colourant while stirring vigorously (only in clockwise direction) till it blends well.

Add the hydrogen peroxide, ammonium, industrial salt, fuming agent and the perfume into the mixture above.

Pour into a dryer for drying or spread under the sun to dry

After drying pulverize or grate and then sieve.

Package into sachets for the market

5. PRODUCTION OF LIQUID DETERGENT

These are very powerful cleaning agent. They are more powerful than the ordinary soap. It can be used for a variety of things ranging from laundry to dish washing. You can start the production with a very small amount of money.

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED

Mixer, weighing scale, graduated cylinder, stirrer

FORMULATION TABLE

Chemical required and their quantity
CDEA 500 GRAMS
STPP 300 GRAMS
Table salt (Nacl2) 75 GRAMS
SLES 1 KG
Fragrance TO TASTE
Colourant TO TASTE
Water 8.5 LITRES

PROCEDURE

Measure out the required quantity of all the chemicals

Put the SLES into the mixer and add little water to it

Stir to smoothness

To the solution above add 500 grams of CDEA and continue stirring to smoothness. Add water occasionally as the need arise.

Put the STPP in separate water and stir well

Add the STPP solution into the mixer and continue stirring

Dissolve the salt in little amount of water and add to the mixer while continuing stirring

Add the perfume and continue stirring

Package the detergent in the right containers and start smiling to the bank.

6. CAR WASH SOLUTION

Many people might not know that it is not advisable to wash their cars with ordinary soap or detergent. It tends to weaken the paint on the car and subsequently leads to corrosion of the weakened parts. The best solution for washing cars is a specially formulated car washing solution. This single formula can change your financial status forever as the product is no longer enough to meet the ever increasing demand for it.

EQUIPMENT

Same as in the production of liquid detergent above

FORMULATION TABLE