Benefits: - Dental insurance
- Employee discounts
- Flexible schedule
- Free uniforms
- Health insurance
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
Soap MakerDo you love working with color, fragrance, and love to be creative? Are you someone who enjoys making things by hand and seeing the results of your work come to life? Join Buff City Soap and become part of a team that creates fresh, handmade bath and body products from scratch every day.
As a Soap Maker, you'll learn the art of soap making, blending vibrant colors, unique fragrances, and skin-loving ingredients into products our guests love. This is a hands-on, fast-paced role that combines creativity, production, and guest service.
What You'll Do:
- Create handmade soaps and bath products from scratch using the cold process soap-making method while accurately following recipes and production procedures.
- Mix colors, fragrances, and ingredients to create high-quality products.
- Serve as both a Soap Maker and Makery Associate by engaging with guests, answering questions, and providing exceptional customer service.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of all products we make and sell to confidently educate guests and make product recommendations.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
- Work closely with a fun, energetic team in a fast-paced retail and production setting.
Important Safety & Physical Requirements:
- This is a labor-intensive position requiring standing, walking, lifting, and constant movement throughout the day.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. repetitively throughout a shift.
- Must be comfortable working around strong fragrances and scents.
- Cold process soap making involves working with lye (sodium hydroxide), a caustic chemical essential to soap production.
- Comprehensive training is provided, and all required PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) is supplied and must be worn during production activities.
Perks & Benefits:
- Growth and advancement opportunities
- Flexible scheduling
- Competitive bonus opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits available
- Paid time off eligibility
- Employee discounts on products and services
- Anniversary recognition and team incentives
- Fun, creative work environment
If you're creative, enjoy working with your hands, love fragrance and color, and aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves, we'd love to meet you!
Compensation: $16.50 per hour
THE BUFF CITY STORYWe're on a mission to create handmade products that are free of harsh ingredients and full of nourishing plant-based goodies to make your skin happy.
WHY WE MAKE SOAPCan we get on our soapbox a minute? Most of the trusted brands you're washing up with are made with detergents, chemicals and tallow, which is just another name for cow fat (umm... gross). Sulfates, artificial detergents and parabens can cause irritation, trigger allergies and have other unpleasant side effects.
That doesn't exactly say "refreshing shower" to us. So we set out on a mission to find an alternative. After learning more about commercial soap ingredients, we found ourselves in a bit of a lather about the whole business.
In 2013, we began experimenting with soap recipes that are safe for your skin and contain ingredients you can actually pronounce. After making a few big messes, we created something wonderful and Buff City Soap was born.
OUR SOAP MAKERYWe handcraft each bar of Buff City soap in what we call our Soap Makeries. Each of our locations makes every product sold right there, where you can see exactly what goes into the products you put on your body. It's a bit of a mad lab stocked with ingredients like rose petals, lavender buds, hemp seed oil, shea butter, charcoal, and tea tree oil. Even our body scrubs are squeaky clean with natural exfoliants like chopped loofah bits, crushed walnut shells, and poppy seeds. What you will never see are artificial detergents, surfactants, dyes, or other harsh chemicals.
We even have our fragrances manufactured for us to ensure they are free of phthalates, parabens, and formaldehyde containing/forming ingredients. You can customize your products with the scent (or non-scent) of your choice and the ingredients that you prefer.
The possibilities are endless!