By Appointment to Discerning Households of the West Country

Cersei Lannister

Artisan Soap Maker
of Milsom Street, Bath
Guaranteed Efficacious in All Professional Applications
c.lannister@example.com (0555) 01225 4471 lannister-soaps.example.com

A Proclamation

being a true and honest account of the maker herself

I have made cold-process soap for 12 years and now run a workshop of 4 makers producing roughly 40,000 bars a year. I formulate, cost, and batch every recipe myself, and I keep the reject rate under 2 percent. My tallow supplier says I am the only customer who telephones about iodine values, which I take as a compliment.

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Appointments Held

with particulars of service rendered
Proprietor & Master Maker 2019 – Present
Lannister & Kettle Fine Soaps · Bath
  • Grew the workshop from a single kettle to 4 staff and 40,000 bars a year, sold through 23 stockists across Somerset and Wiltshire.
  • Formulated 31 cold-process recipes; the Bath Oolite Scrub Bar alone accounts for 28 percent of annual turnover.
  • Cut curing losses from 6.1 to 1.8 percent by rebuilding the drying room ventilation for £2,400.
Head of Production 2015 – 2019
Avonside Apothecary Works · Bristol
  • Ran daily production of 600 bars across 3 saponification lines with a crew of 6.
  • Wrote the firm's first batch-record system; traceability disputes fell from 9 a year to 1.
  • Passed 4 consecutive cosmetic safety audits with zero corrective actions.
Apprentice Soap Boiler 2013 – 2015
Widcombe Tallow & Lye Co. · Bath
  • Learned kettle saponification, salt-out purification, and milling under a 40-year master.
  • Kept the lye log for 500 consecutive batches without a single concentration error.
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Directions for Use

how the candidate is best applied

Apply Liberally To

  1. Formulation: cold and hot process, superfatting to 0.5 percent tolerance, fragrance load calculation, INCI labelling.
  2. Production: batch scheduling, curing management, mould design, small-plant maintenance.
  3. Compliance: UK Cosmetics Regulation, CPSR file preparation, batch traceability.
  4. Commerce: wholesale pricing, stockist relations, market-day retail, plain double-entry bookkeeping.
CAUTION: The candidate will re-weigh your ingredients. This is a feature of the preparation and no cause for alarm.
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Testimonial Letters

received from persons of good standing, reproduced verbatim
Dear Sirs,

Ms. Lannister supplied our 14 guest rooms with soap for 3 seasons. Complaints regarding toiletries, formerly a weekly occurrence, ceased entirely. Guests now steal the bars, which we consider the higher form of praise.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. E. Pargeter
Proprietress, The Laurel House, Bath
To whom it may concern,

I audited Ms. Lannister's workshop twice. Her batch records were the most complete I have inspected in 11 years of practice. I found nothing to correct, which I confess was disappointing.

Respectfully,
Mr. T. Quiller
Cosmetic Safety Assessor, Quiller & Snow, Bristol
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Schooling & Certificates

Diploma in Cosmetic Science
Westgate Institute of Trades, Bath
2011 – 2013
Certified Cosmetic Safety Practitioner
Guild of Soap & Candle Makers
2017, renewed 2023

Honours & Particulars

Gold Medal, Hard Soap Class
West Country Makers' Fair
2021 and 2024
Languages: English; workshop French sufficient to argue with a Marseille olive-oil broker.
References: further letters furnished upon application.
Printed for the Candidate at the Sign of the Copper Kettle, Bath · Beware of Imitations · None Genuine Without This Signature: J. Lannister