Hummus-Sana
The idea of small enterprises is no longer alien to the younger generation, who entered the labor market early in addition to his university studies, governed by living requirements that stimulated ideas and visions that many of them were transformed into implementation thanks to the drive, determination and determination of their owners to work and produce.
Nour and Alya Al-Muhammad are two young university women who, with the help of their mother, were able to establish the nucleus of a project for the manufacture and formation of soap of various kinds, which soon expanded to form a stable income base a year after its inception. Marketing tools and cosmetics. She attended an educational course on the basics and methods of soap making.
Al-Muhammed added .. After the session ended, I started purchasing the project’s supplies of silicon molds, natural materials and soap supplies to make the first soap. The success of the experiment encouraged me to increase the number and types of soap bars and sell them first to the surroundings near me before going to social media to market my products, which gave me financial independence that enabled me after A period of time from renting a store to displaying and selling my products.
In turn, Noor, a student at the Faculty of Education at Al-Baath University, drew attention to the difficulties they encountered at the beginning, but they quickly overcame them after relying on themselves by manufacturing a lot of materials and dispensing with the purchase of natural materials such as olivira, nettle and roses from the market and planting them in the home garden.
She indicated the types of soaps that they manufactured according to the nature of their use and the customers' request for them, including soap "charcoal, green tea, lemon, collagen, sugar gum, turmeric, nigella, sweet almond, nettle, strawberry, olive oil and castor oil", pointing to the non-use of colorants. Chemical, aromatherapy and essential oils to avoid sensitive skin.
Samaher Al-Akkari, the mother of the two young women, explained for her part that her studies at the Institute of Feminist Arts helped her decorate the soap and shape it with distinctive artistic templates, especially with regard to soap gifts and various occasions, noting that the marketing of soap was not limited to Homs, but extended to the governorates of Damascus, Hama, Aleppo and Lattakia through a marketing team composed Of 25 young women and men.
The mother concluded that the project contributed to improving the financial return of the family in addition to providing job opportunities for many young people, all with modest capital.
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