The next day, four kinds of soaps were completed, which was just the first step in the long march of thousands of miles, and in Baozhou City, Miao Yuan not only collected a large number of dried flowers, but also bought all the spices he could buy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In addition to the local spices, there are also a lot of foreign spices, the spices of the Western Regions, the spices of Dashi, itself is the main product of their trade.

Yes, the Northern Song Dynasty lacked nothing, exquisite silk, porcelain, tea, is a necessary necessity for trade, the surrounding countries, all are the object of trade plunder, under the restrictions of the Liao State and the Western Xia, the most needed cattle and horses and other large livestock, can not enter China, but all kinds of precious metals, precious stones, and precious spices, these have become the main trade products.

Baozhou is not a trading place, but there are all kinds of spices, the quantity is small, but the variety is many, Miao Yuan has collected everything that can be collected, and there are even three or four precious repose spices, and even increased the number of lights for Zhao Xin four or five times.

This is Zhao Xin's unlit side spices, but also Zhao Xin's focus on conquering, more valuable spices, will add more added value to the soap, this is indisputable, just like the later generations of advertising, add ginseng essential oil on the sale price, wild ginseng and cordyceps, is an important basis for health care products to drink, in fact, how much is added, how much is worth, only they themselves know.

In the feudal era of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was even more so, using products that people are familiar with and know the price of to increase the price of soap, especially the fragrance, the spice is expensive itself is the fragrance, and after the fragrance is used, even if it is only a few, the price of soap has risen rapidly.

I don't know if it's not, yesterday some lost the character, 4 tests were all successful, and then the production process, it was not so smooth, 17 kinds of experimental spices, most of them failed, not after adding, completely useless, the generation is ordinary soap, and even caused the failure of the saponification reaction, that is, a lot of spices were added, but the effect is not very good.

Soap, incense is its selling point, spices are the same, the two collections, no, or is a very slight taste, you don't have to take it out to sell, and it's not a later generation, you can use gimmicks, or ingredients to speak, in this era, there are no detection tools, no matter how much you add, in the precious things, others can't feel it, it's also equal to zero.

Among the 17 kinds of spices, Zhao Xin values the most, and also attaches the most importance to the four kinds of musk, agarwood, sandalwood and benzoin, some of which are native to China, such as agarwood and musk, and some are foreign, such as sandalwood and benzoin, the former is produced in India, and the latter is produced in Iran.

All of these four are non-floral spices, which are abundant in large quantities, and are not seasonal like flowers, which are somewhat difficult to obtain in winter.

Of the 17 spices, only a few succeeded in the end, and only four that sold well, musk, agarwood and cloves.

Because the experience is not very good, musk agarwood is better, benzoin and sandalwood, some can't be hung, but think about it, sandalwood is mostly used for burning incense, and there doesn't seem to be any use on soap in later generations, benzoin is also about the same, maybe the level and strength are not enough, maybe in the future, it will come out after a few more adjustments.

However, it failed on the soap, but it succeeded in the by-product, the by-product is the perfume to put it bluntly, the perfume is quite simple, the alcohol smelts some spice extracts is the perfume, the perfume containing alcohol, spray on the body, the alcohol will disappear because of the natural transpiration, but the aroma will remain.

Flower dew is the earliest perfume, but China has not developed chemistry, and there is no continued research in this field, perhaps there are women who love flowers, and they have made it, but it has not been popularized, and it has not become a product that has swept the world.

Zhao Xin actually, still want to make flower water, it's winter, it's a little better, in case it comes to summer, there should be a lot of mosquitoes, this era, different from later generations, the development of cities and the reduction of green space, so that mosquitoes do not have much environment to grow, this era, everywhere is lush forests, mosquitoes will be more.

It's a pity that Zhao Xin doesn't know the recipe of flower water, this is a convenient way to do it, but there is a perfume, plus yesterday's, a total of at least 21 kinds of perfumes have been completed, of which musk and agarwood are particularly large.

Whether it is musk, sandalwood, or benzoin, these can be extracted by alcohol, and even because there are too many impurities in the original spices, after several extractions and transpiration of alcohol and water, plus the impurities removed by ancient chemistry, their texture is more pure, and the fragrance is more intense.

Before, dried flowers and plum blossoms, a total of 24 bottles of 50 ml perfume were made, this day, on the soap, a big failure, perfume, but a great success, these spices, expensive, but a lot of them, and relatively pure, will not be like flowers, may be dozens of kilograms of flowers, can only extract a little bit of extract, these themselves are spices, containing a strong aroma.

After purification, extraction, the production of perfume is not only better quality, but also more quantity, the most is agarwood and musk, both of which are Chinese local production of spices, the price is a little more expensive, but the quantity is more, under the premise of money, just musk, on the purchase of 30 catties, this cost more than a thousand times, but the number of perfumes produced is more.

Because of the large number of raw materials, Zhao Xin simply increased the concentration, musk is the fragrance that the ladies like, he increased it to 12% concentration, once opened, the wanton aroma will sweep the entire room, so that the whole room is bathed in this fragrance.

The perfume is bottled with fine porcelain, sealed with a cork, a bottle is about a little more than one or two, it looks very good, but it is not as perfect as Zhao Xin imagined, in fact, the best formula is still a glass bottle, a variety of different colors of glass, with the unique color of the perfume, plus a small nozzle, it is really a dream perfume.

Zhao Xin knows that dream perfume, in this era, and dreaming, there is not much difference, first talk about glass bottles, wait until the glass is manufactured, can be produced, with the help of ancient chemistry, as well as the current foundation of Miaojiazhuang, the production of glass, there are not many problems, but to make a fine glass bottle, the glass process to a certain extent, it is possible.

But the nozzle is difficult, it looks simple, and it has become the most common material in later generations, a small watering can, the cost may not even be a dollar, but the scientific and technological content is not as simple as imagined, Zhao Xin does not know the principle, and he is not sure whether he can make it.

Perfume is a by-product, even if a lot of spices that can't be made into soap are produced because of the smooth relationship, they are all used to make perfume, so that the entire operation room is immersed in the inexplicable aroma, even the old and rough Xue Yu can't help but sigh, I only know that there are stinky deaths, but I didn't expect that if there is more incense, it can also smell dead.

The smell is all taste, one is more annoying, the other is more pleasant, but no matter how pleasant the smell is, if you smell too much, you will feel uncomfortable, so after the perfume came to an end, Zhao Xin put the perfume aside and went all out to produce soap.

In addition to the three types finalized on the second day, rosin soap, rouge soap and sulfur soap, and on the third day, there were two finalized types, namely agarwood soap and musk soap, which means that a total of 6 kinds were completed, and only 5 kinds were finally introduced to the market.

The application scope of sulfur soap is too small, after careful consideration, it was decided to apply it on a small scale, sold internally, used to reduce diseases and clean bacteria, and sold externally, respectively, one soap, 4 soaps.

According to the previous pricing, agarwood soap is positioned as the retail price of 420 wen before rouge soap and rosin soap, but musk soap is the most expensive, 990 wen, just 10 wen, it has reached consistency, which is also the only toiletry that can compete with the price of mid-range bath beans.

After the shape was finalized, according to the ratio of raw materials, large-scale production began, and in 5 days, a total of 2,500 kilograms of soap were produced, including 1,000 kilograms of ordinary soap.

It seems that a lot of soap is produced, the overall profit margin of soap is not high, but it is the most widely used, it will always take a time to cultivate the market, and in later generations, an account recharged with a penny is precious, and there are data experts who even evaluate how much will be invested next for each penny account.

In order to allow people to take a step from 0 to 1, cultivate this, it may cost a few dollars, or even dozens of dollars, in the supermarket, obviously much lower than the outside price, will lose money goods, in order to attract the flow of people, people are always casual, even if it is specifically for a cheap commodity, but most, will also buy other products that need to be at hand, those, may be the product with greater profits, under the average, is the secret of making money.

The profit of soap is low, and it is also relatively speaking, even if it is the low price deliberately set by Zhao Xin, the wholesale 40 Wen, and the profit is almost doubled, why not do it, even if it is 1000 catties of soap, all of them are sold, and they will get enough profits, not to mention that because of soap, ordinary people realize the benefits of soap, and know the brand of soap, not to buy it is not that they don't want to buy it, but they can't afford it.

The remaining 4 are basically the same, rosin soap is slightly higher about 700 jin, others, more than two hundred jin, musk is the least, only 150 jin, this is the highest price thing, even if it is suitable for the senses of Chinese, think that the sales will be very small, consistent piece, the price is amazing.

Even if the number of musk soap is small, only more than 600 pieces, once all sold out, it may create close to 600 yuan of income, which is more than 4 times that of 1000 catties of soap, which is the gap between price and profit, almost 9% of more than 9% are profits, and the profit margin is extremely amazing.