The overall costs long term are much cheaper to make your own soap.
We started making food for our dogs due to one of them having an allergic reaction to the food we were feeding them before. It's far far cheaper to make it ourselves, and isn't really that hard. It just took learning about the basic steps and doing it.
We were on a long drive last weekend and my wife was complaining that Spotify wouldn't actually shuffle randomly and that it keeps trying to get her to listen to AI songs and doesn't work well.
My response: You could stop paying for Spotify and use the free Tidal subscription I've been trying to get you to use.
Her: But it would be so hard!
Me: No, it wouldn't. It took me 10 mins to switch.
Wet food. I don't have any expertise in making kibble.