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How Learning in the Crafter's Community Works

Cottage DIY Features the Full 12 Module (80 Lesson) Thermal Mermaid
Soap & Cosmetic Course & Recipe Directory

The Thermal Mermaid Soap Maker's Course contains 12 Modules with 80 lessons covering everything you need to know about learning the Cottage Industry of soap making along with modern techniques in cosmetic and bath production. The full course is crafted for the very beginner, includes intermediate lessons, and advanced lessons. These lessons can be reviewed over and over and used to support the hundreds of beginner, intermediate, and advanced recipes found in the recipe directory.


Exclusive Recipe Directory
OVER 1000 Soap & Cosmetic Designs & Recipes

The recipe directory in the Thermal Mermaid Soap Maker's Course includes not just hand made artisan soap. It includes, body wash, shampoo and conditioner, bath bombs, lip gloss, face masks, lotions, body butters, and just about anything you can think of to package and enjoy during any luxury spa session or home bath. Years ago we discovered that amazon books are wrought with fake recipes that make no sense. We decided to publish our recipes with notes and often video tutorials so that you really can make these at home. The recipes found in our directory are crafted by us, made by us, and in every case packaged and sold by us. No manipulated recipes that are made just to get you to buy our ingredients (we do not sell ingredients!), and no fake recipes! Everything in the directory is worked through first with artisan love, and then published for you to have.


Community Profile & Social Network for Soap & Cosmetic Artists

Your member's dashboard has interactive abilities along with all of the rich features. Not only can you access all of our tools, calculators, recipes, and tutorials, and publications, but you can interact with each other and show your work to the world. Integrated into your member's dashboard are groups and live activity feeds that allow you to connect specifically to those who are engaged in your hobbies. Wouldn't it be fun if your 'tweets' or 'facebook' posts were kept exclusively inside our artisan community? Yes! This is a great feature to discuss your ideas and maybe, not so successful experiments with only those who are working on the same thing you are!


Custom Professional Label & Bar Code Software

Get access to our exclusive label creator. If you use canva or another online label designer you might have discovered that you build your label and have to pay to download your design so that you can bring it to the publisher. You membership includes exclusive access to our label designer with over 1000 borders, images, and logos so you can customize and print your labels and cards for free.


Learn Crafting Courses & Communities Built to Support Your Craft
(additional hobby crafts coming soon)

Come along while CottageDIY expands into a hub of crafting hobbies, some common and some eclectic. Along with our flagship Soap & Cosmetic Course from the Thermal Mermaid, we are building out more hobby courses like crochet, knitting, tatting, candle making, quilting, and jewelry making.


Teach Your Own Tutorials and Make Money on Our Platform

You can use our courses to build a skill that starts your own crafter's business or you can teach your skill and earn money to supplement your business. Our mission is to support and help artisans to bring a sustainable income to their craft to create a nourishing business where artists can spend their time pursuing the thing they enjoy.  Want to teach a course? Learn more here

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The Main Dashboard Now Features New Up and Coming Courses.  The Full Soap & Cosmetic Course will soon be joined by other craft tutorials.


When You Enter the 'Soap & Cosmetic' Course You will gain Access to the full course dashboard

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What's inside?


Full Beginners Tutorial on Soap Making
Hot Process Soap Tutorials
Cold Process Soap Tutorials
Full 100 page pdf e-book matching lessons 1 - 3
Multiple cheat sheets & check lists
Essential Oil tutorials
Dozens of Intermediate recipes to Advanced design techniques
Dozens of advanced soap making techniques to expand your product line
Liquid soap, shampoo & conditioner, laundry soap from scratch tutorials.
1000's of templates for label designs
Selling on your own store platform. Instant access.
Product photography tutorials.
Resource lists for supplies.
12 additional related e-books with recipes and instructions published by Thermal Mermaid
Packaging & Storing tutorials
Real world farmer's/flea market directory to publish your appearances.
New Recipes added monthly
Over 100 hours of exclusive video tutorials.
Colorant & Fragrance tutorials
Full Social Network Access
Groups to post about your favorite topics
Instant Message other members in the Crafter's Community
Post to our Community Forum Message boards for discussion or question on specific recipes.
FREE Calculators
Label Creator with your Custom brand Logo & Labels
FREE SELLER ACCOUNT in our marketplace

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