[TinaL]

I am personally horrified by the number of expensive online schools cranking out “natural formulators”. There is minimal discussion about the state of the market, the cost involved with starting an initial inventory of raw materials, equipment, packaging, testing, marketing. Most of these participants are eager, ready to quit their jobs, only to go through the schooling and then face the hard facts and then get mad and disappointed. The schools teach how to make batches with mixers or tiny overhead stirrers that are just not made for any type of production.  Or they teach you how to make the new craze body butters with pretty colors and micas that most people use once and toss in the bin because they are greasy and stain every piece of clothing you own…I am just frustrated by the greed and feel sorry for the gullible masses who sign up for these schools and then find they’ve spent thousands for absolutely nothing.