Project Foundation and Boundaries

Your Why
You are driven by the belief that your project will change people's lives through something easily accessed. What pulls you forward is the chance to help people suffering with skin conditions to heal their skins, bringing this change to your community at a reasonable price. You believe your product's uniqueness means external factors won't significantly affect what you can deliver, though you did not elaborate on what those external factors might be or how your project would navigate them.
Your Project's Purpose
Help people suffering with skin conditions move from unhealthy skin toward having healthy skin. You want to bring this change to your community, making it easily accessible at a reasonable price. What matters to you is that this change will improve people's lives. Your project can influence whether people achieve healthier skin; you do not anticipate that external factors will significantly affect this outcome, seeing your approach as distinctive. You did not specify what lies entirely outside your project's control.
What You Bring
Existing knowledge and practice: You have already started to dry stinging nettle for skin conditions and know how to make it into a tea.
Access to raw materials: You currently have dried plants and plants still in the process of drying.
Capacity to develop new forms: You have the ability to explore how to transform your existing tea-based approach into other forms such as soap or shampoo.
Understanding of your community's need: You know the skin conditions affecting people in your community and what price point would make treatment accessible to them.
Know-how gap: You need to acquire knowledge of how to make soap and shampoo, how to test these products, and how to verify they are safe and effective for use.
Guidance gap: You need help understanding the ethical, safety, fairness and privacy boundaries that should guide how you develop and test any product.
Where You Must Begin
ConstraintWhat it means for where I startMaterialsYou have dried plants and plants still drying, which is what you can work with now to develop and test your soap and shampoo formulations.Skills and expertiseYou need to learn the know-how for making soap and shampoos, and you need to learn how to test them to know they are correct and genuinely will be good for people to use.Safety, ethics and regulatory supportYou have identified that you need help and teaching on ethical boundaries, safety, fairness and privacy because you do not currently have knowledge in these areas.How You Think the Change Happens
Your current best guess for how change happens: You think that because tea is used inside, if both the tea and the soap help each other to recover the skin condition, this will bring about the change you know differs from the normal.
The step you flagged as most likely to go wrong: The making of the soap, because you've never made soap before and you need to know exactly how to do it.
Whose involvement this depends on: Scientists and specialists are needed, with their knowledge and capacity to test the Soaps and the shampoos, and they must be involved.
People affected should help decide: The decisions you are expecting from people affected are their feedback on the testing of the soaps and the shampoos, so that you know you'll be doing the correct thing at the end of the day.
What You'll Test First
First assumption: you need to test whether there are allergens in the product that will cause a reaction when used on people, starting with testing on your child who has a skin condition.
What you need to learn: you need to see a physical reaction on people's skin within a week of use to know if the product is feasible or not.
Decision rule: if the physical signs show that this is not the correct thing to use, you will stop.
You have not stated what would lead you to continue or revise rather than stop.