Animal Bone Cleaning Service

Animal Bone Cleaning Service Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 7th, 2024

The pristine-looking skeletons you see in museums or bright white skulls hanging from walls are real animal bones and skulls that were cleaned and preserved.

Cleaning animal bones may sound boring! But do you know that animal skulls and bones is a profitable business? Animal bones and skulls are not only a good display for residential and commercial places, but they are also a good teaching tool. Your clients can be hunters, anatomy professionals, conservationists, and pet lovers.

Therefore, starting a bone cleaning and bleaching business can be a great business.

In this list, you'll find real-world animal bone cleaning service success stories and very profitable examples of starting a animal bone cleaning service that makes money.

1. Dermestidarium ($24K/year)

Carla Brauer, the founder of Dermestidarium, came up with the idea of using flesh-eating beetles to clean animal bones after attempting to clean a goat skull during an internship at a goat meat ranch. Despite initial doubts from others, word spread about her unique business and she has since grown her client base, been featured in various media outlets, and even gave a TEDx talk on her journey.

How much money it makes: $24K/year
How many people on the team: 1

How I Started A Successful Side Business Cleaning Animal Skulls

Dermestidarium is a successful side business that uses flesh-eating beetles to clean animal bones for display, started by Carla Brauer who had no hopes of it turning into a business, but grew it into a busy side-hustle and more recently a primary work with client base growing each year.

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