We always talked about owning a few goats for fun and becoming cheese makers, but that ended quickly when we came to the big bump in the road called USDA. So we then needed to figure out what we were going to do with all the milk. We did a little research and decided to try our hand at soap making and here we are today.

We have a small herd with different varieties of goats, lamanchas being our favorite. When our does kid in the spring we do not take the kids off of the moms to get the milk we simply separate them in the evening after they have fed and we milk first thing in the morning and then the kids get there moms all day. We also rotate them on different pastures and occasionally we let them out completely and they run around the 5 acres eating whatever they want.

As far as our soaps go we are not into the fancy colored , shaped, swirled looking soaps we are keeping it simple, I believe that is the whole point of homemade soap making to keep out all of the unnecessary chemicals.

Our soaps contain the following

1. Goats Milk- Hand milked from our own herd,, the milk itself contains many vitamins , natural lactic acid, and a natural alpha hydroxy acid all which clean, soften, and maintain the PH balance of your skin.

2. Coconut Oil-Coconut oil makes soaps lather beautifully It will make a very hard, white bar of soap with abundant lather. It even lathers in very hard water or even sea water.

3. Olive Oil- Olive oil is a great moisturizer it prevents the loss of your skin's natural moisture and contains vitamins A, B-1, B-2, C, D, E and K and in iron which makes it healing as well as moisturizing.

4. Vegetable Shortening (cottonseed,soy) -These oils produces thick and lasting lather, in addition to having emollient properties