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Article: Interview: Bar man turned soap maker.
- Article from:
- Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2006
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Matthew Lepp is cleaning up after leaving his job in the pub trade to set up his own business - making soap.
Despite having had a massive career change Matthew Lepp is still a bar man. But today, rather than making a living tending bars in and around his home town of Formby, Matthew is the owner of a burgeoning business manufacturing hand-made bars of soap.
Since launching Tiger Muffin Soaps, with his sister Becky, it has become a staple at most of Lancashire's farmers markets, craft fairs and other marketplaces, and has blossomed offering not just soap, but home-made shower gels and hand creams too.
Matthew got the idea to branch out in to this unusual line of ...