You can learn how to start a soap making business without a lot of trouble. What we did was make and sell soap mostly from home and we did it with a small investment and it took less time than you might think. Just like starting most small scale businesses you must take just a few basic steps to make some progress. Having the soap making process down to a science is part of what it takes. The thing is that it is really not that hard to do. Soap is very easy to make at least compared to lots of things you could choose to try to put together anyway. Once you get the production part under control then you get to start with the selling part. There really is a demand for natural soap and relatively few people are willing to go through all the steps to get it in front of buyers. If you do then you have a chance of making some money and getting a soap business going and being profitable.