The Freckled Farm Soap Company

Author: Crystal

  • Best Laundry Soap for Workout Clothes

    We are shaking up the “Best Soap for” series today by writing about the best laundry soap for work out clothes! Workout clothes get extra funky and sometimes it takes a special detergent to get them really clean. So which of our four laundry detergent varieties should you be using?

    Tea Tree Goat Milk Laundry Detergent

    Workout clothes have a habit of developing a stale scent and many detergents have a hard time getting them totally clean. Our Tea Tree Goat Milk Laundry Detergent is a high powered deodorizer. It knocks out musky sweat smells and leaves your workout clothes smelling clean and fresh!

    Find our Tea Tree Goat Milk Laundry Detergent Here

  • What’s in our Soap Dish – June

    The warmer weather is here! How will this weather change, change our soap dish? Read on to find out what’s in our soap dish this month!

    Castile Goat Milk Soap

    Our Castile Goat Milk Soap is making another appearance in our “Soap Dish” series. In January it was for it’s ability to moisturize during those really dry months. This time it’s because of it’s shave soap abilities. The Castile has a lotion like lather, giving you the perfect slick, smooth surface to shave with, and that moisture stays with you! So now that the shorts are coming out it’s time to bring out the Castile again!

    Find our Castile Goat Milk Soap Here

    Sunrise Citrus Goat Milk Soap

    Our Sunrise Citrus Goat Milk Soap is the perfect soap to kick off your summer. It has a bright citrus scent that’s a great way to wake you up and start your day!

    Find our Sunrise Citrus Goat Milk Soap Here

  • Best soaps for people who work with their hands

    Are you a chef, gardener, nurse, woodworker, or mechanic? Do you have some other career or hobby that requires you to work with your hands and leaves them dirty, greasy, dry, and/or smelly? Then the following are the soaps that you should be using!

    Coffee Goat Milk Soap

    This is the soap for those who work with their hands! Our Coffee Goat Milk Soap is a deodorizer that cleans away grease and dirt with ease! The coffee within the soap acts as a scent neutralizer while the coffee grounds act as a scrubbing agent for dirt and grease. Chefs are able to get rid garlic and onion scents. Gardeners will be able to wash away the deep down, ground in, dirt. Even the stuff that gets trapped in the creases of your hands. Mechanics and woodworkers can scrub away the grease and oils that other soaps just wash right over.

    Find our Coffee Goat Milk Soap Here 

    Castile Goat Milk Soap

    Do you have a job that requires you to wash your hands and/or use antibacterial gels all day. Then our Castile Goat Milk Soap is for you! It’s our most moisturizing bar and will help rehydrate your hands after they’ve been dried out from work.

    Find our Castile Goat Milk Soap Here

  • Best Soap for Repealing Bugs

    During this time of year bugs are a nuisance! Flies are starting to come out, mosquitos are making their seasonal appearance, and it won’t be long until the gnats start to become a problem. It’s easy to reach for one of those bug sprays, many of which contain deet, but why not try something more natural? There are several essential oils that are said to help ward off bugs. So instead of reaching for the spray try using one of our soaps that contain these essential oils in the morning to help deter the bugs. While there is no guarantee that using the soap will prevent all mosquitos and other bugs from bothering you (if you’ve ever used the sprays you know this is true with those as well) it can at least could help.

    Lemongrass Green Tea Goat Milk Soap

    A recent study revealed that lemongrass essential oil has the ability to help discourage mosquitos as well as deet. It has a wonderful woody, slightly citrus, scent that humans love, but apparently mosquitos hate. This is our go to soap when we are spending a lot of time outside and the mosquitos are biting.

    Find our Lemongrass Green Tea Goat Milk Soap Here

    Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap

    I’m not one of those girls who normally has issues with bugs… but I hate ticks! Breckin got Lymes a few years ago and it was very scary. Now, in addition to nightly “tick checks” we do whatever we can to avoid ticks getting on us and the children. Tea tree essential oil is supposed to help repel ticks.

    Find our Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap Here

    Canine Shampoo Goat Milk Soap

    During the buggy season don’t forget about your dog! They are bothered by fleas, ticks, and flies as well! Our Canine Shampoo Goat Milk Soap contains lavender, tea tree, and rosemary essential oils. All of these are supposed to repel bugs. Use this soap to wash your canine companion and maybe avoid using so many chemical pesticides on them. Do you want the benefit of all three of these essential oils as well? You can use our Canine Shampoo on yourself!

    Find our Canine Shampoo Goat Milk Soap Here

  • Irish Goodbye Stout Goat Milk Soap Release!

    The fourth and final release of our big spring releases is here!! We are so excited to debut this awesome soap that was a collaboration between several local companies… Our new Irish Goodbye Stout Goat Milk Soap!

    Irish Goodbye Stout Goat Milk Soap from The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    This amazing goat milk soap is made with the goat milk from our Goochland, VA dairy goat farm, the Irish Goodbye Stout by Final Gravity Brewery in Richmond, VA, and malted barley grown and malted by Woods Mill Malt House in Nelson County, VA. This soap has a wonderful warm scent and a rich lather. The lovely dark brown color and dark brown speckles come from the stout and malted barley.

    Our new Irish Goodbye Stout Goat Milk Soap is sure to become a local favorite! If you are interested in trying this new soap you can now find it at the Final Gravity Brewery, all of our farmer’s market and craft show locations, and on our website.

    From now until Sunday at Midnight (EST) pick up the Irish Goodbye Stout Goat Milk Soap for 20% off on our website! (Offer available only online)

  • What’s in our Soap Dish – May

    Which of our goat milk soaps will you find in our soap dish in May? Read on to find out!

    Coffee Goat Milk Soap

    In May, Coffee is our go to soap! The garden is in bloom, plants are popping up all over the place, and we are spending hours a day with our hands in the dirt. The dirt gets into the cracks and crevasses of your hand and begins to stain your skin. Most soaps don’t do the job of getting your hands back to normal. They may help to the get surface dirt off and to moisturize, but in order to get that deep dirt out of the cracks of your hands you need something that’s nice and scrubby! That’s where our coffee soap comes in! It’s great for getting off dirt making it the perfect soap for gardeners.

    Find our Coffee Goat Milk Soap Here

    Lemongrass Green Tea Goat Milk Soap

    Mosquito season is here… unfortunately. They are awful to deal with and people often resort to putting chemical insect repellents on their skin to avoid being bitten. If you are trying to avoid this chemical exposure essentials oils like lemongrass might be an option for you! Lemongrass is a natural mosquito repellent, whether it is planted around your home or put on your skin in the essential oil form (never apply straight essential oils directly to your skin). Our Lemongrass Green Tea Goat Milk Soap is a great way to help deter mosquitos naturally. We use it a lot this time of year, as we spend most of our time outside.

    Find our Lemongrass Green Tea Goat Milk Soap Here

  • The Handmade Market and Beer Soap Release

    This is our last really crazy weekend before we settle into our farmer’s schedule for the summer… and we are ALL over the place. On Friday and Saturday Kevin will be at The Handmade Market in Raleigh, NC. On Saturday we will also be at South of the James, the West End Farmer’s Market, and the Holistic Expo. We are also releasing our “Irish Goodbye Stout” beer goat milk soap!

    12832569_10153555804044016_6008126754155015814_nMay 6th and 7th

    The Handmaiden’s Handmade Market

    6-9pm (Fri), 10am-5pm (Sat)

    215 Wolfe Street, Raleigh NC 27601

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    May 7th

     Richmond Holistic Expo

    10am-6pm

    Henrico Hall, Richmond Raceway Complex, 602 E Laburnum Ave, RVA

    We will have soap displayed at The Giving Heart’s booth. 50% of our sales will go to benefit their organization!

    We are also releasing our “Irish Goodbye Stout” Goat Milk Soap. This is soap is our collaboration with Final Gravity Brewery in Richmond, VA. Check back on Friday for more details about this awesome soap!

  • Introducing our new Goat Milk Lotion!

    The day is finally here… The day that I consider the biggest release of our 4 weeks of new product releases! Our Goat Milk Lotion!

    Goat Milk Lotion from The Freckled Farm Soap CompanyWe have had so many customers over the years ask us to carry goat milk lotion, and while it has always been part of the plan, like with our soaps, we wanted it to be really special. Something that would stand out from other lotions. So, we have been working on this recipe for a while, making small incremental changes, having friends and family test it, all trying to figure out the perfect recipe… and a few months ago we finally felt like we found it! We then had to let it sit on a shelf for months so we could test how it would hold up in someone’s home. When you are working with a product like milk you can never be too careful! So after so much work we are extremely excited to finally release this awesome product to the public! We know that all of our patient customers are going to be extremely pleased.

    I may be slightly biased, but these lotions are amazing! They are rich, creamy, and soft, and they don’t leave your skin feeling wet and greasy. They have a very luxurious feel that I would describe as being somewhere between a regular lotion and a body butter, and they smell wonderful.

    We are currently offering our Goat Milk Lotion in three scents; Lavender, Peppermint Eucalyptus, and Unscented. Each is special in it’s own way! Find our new Goat Milk Lotions HERE!

    Want to try out our new lotions? Starting today and going until Midnight (EST) Sunday we are offering them for 20% off on our website! This discount is only available on website orders. 

     

  • Arts in the Park and Lotion Release!

    We have another incredible weekend ahead of us! On Saturday you can find us at South of the James, and it’s the opening weekend for the West End Farmer’s Market. We will also be at Arts in the Park on both Saturday and Sunday! And it’s the weekend that so many of our regular customers have been waiting for… the release of our Goat Milk Lotion!!

    Arts in the ParkApril 30th – May 1st

    Arts in the Park

    11am-6pm (Sat), 11am-5pm (Sun)

    At the Carillon in Byrd Park

    We are FINALLY releasing our Goat Milk Lotion. We have worked incredibly hard on the recipe for our lotion and we cannot wait for you all to try it! Check back on Friday for more information. 

  • Beeswax Candles from The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    I cannot tell you the number of customers that, while smelling our soaps, comment that they wish they had a candle in that scent. Well, now you can! Today we are releasing our brand new Beeswax Candles in some of our most popular scents!

    Beeswax Candles - The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    Our beeswax candles come in three scents; Lavender, Peppermint Eucalyptus, and Unscented. With this debut we are starting with our two most popular soap scents and we will gradually add new scents to our line over the next year. We will also be offering candles in some of our seasonal scents, like Fall and Winter, when those seasons come around. These candles are amazing, not only do they give off the scent of their essential oil, but the sweet scent of the beeswax. The lovely aroma fills the room! These candles are very simply made with just beeswax and essential oils.

    Find our Beeswax Candles Here

    Want to try out our new Beeswax candles? Then head over to our website where we are offering them for 20% off from now until Sunday at midnight (EST). This offer is available with online orders only.