Actually she didn't do too well with ebay. By the way, making sites is stressful!
Sometimes it does. After 15 years of doing it, became second nature to me.
As for eBay you can utilize your site to help eBay sales so instead of using papal, you can have the products link to their eBay store item page.
Maybe then have the option to buy directly from you with papal, a small link to a papal checkout or add to cart. But selling on ebay being the main way of sales. This will bring in visitors and people who are specifically looking for soap. A stand alone site is hard to bring in customers unless you spam or pay for advertising.