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Buff City Soap franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Shrinking network Item 19 disclosed

Buff City Soap operates in the beauty and personal care sector, offering a franchise model with a disclosed Item 19.

Everything below is free, read straight off Buff City Soap's registered filing, with where the numbers land against beauty & personal care peers. Weighing Buff City Soap against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Buff City Soap's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 37163-202608-06 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

How much does a Buff City Soap franchise make?

Buff City Soap is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $422,306 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every beauty & personal care brand that discloses earnings in the Salon, beauty & personal care franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Buff City Soap franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Buff City Soap's 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Buff City Soap franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Buff City Soap franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $422,306 of revenue, a 6% royalty alone is about $25,338 a year before any other cost.

Buff City Soap lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

We do not publish a litigation answer for Buff City Soap. Item 3 could not be read reliably from this particular filing, and a claim that a company has no legal history is not one to make on a failed parse — so we say we do not know instead. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check; the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.

Buff City Soap closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Buff City Soap will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Buff City Soap's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a beauty & personal care of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Buff City Soap's latest tables show a shrinking franchised network — more units left than opened. Net franchised outlets moved -29 to 222 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Buff City Soap?

Buff City Soap's franchise is offered by BUFF CITY SOAP FRANCHISING, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at MN CARDS; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Compare Buff City Soap head-to-head

Beauty & personal care franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Buff City Soap is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Buff City Soap franchise — frequently asked