Author: Crystal

  • Crafted and The Mini Makers Market!

    My goodness!! We have an incredibly busy weekend! On Saturday you can find us at Crafted in Virginia Beach and South of the James in Richmond, and on Sunday we are at the Mini Maker’s Market in Charlottesville. On top of all of this we are releasing our new Beeswax Candles!

    Crafted

     

    April 23rd

    Crafted

    12pm – 6pm

    O’Connor Brewing Co. 211 W. 24th Street Norfolk, VA 23517

    Mini Makers Market

    April 24th

     Mini Makers Market

    1pm – 7pm

    Champion Brewing Company –  324 6th St SE, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902

    We will also be releasing our new Beeswax Candles! We are so excited to release this new product to the public. Check back on Friday to learn all about it!

  • Deep Space Goat Milk Soap

    It’s here! Our four weeks of releases! Up first, our Deep Space Goat Milk Soap!

    Deep Space Goat Milk Soap

    In addition to the goat milk and natural oils, that are featured in all of our soaps, this beautiful bar includes activated charcoal, lavender, and tea tree making it the perfect face soap! The lather is smooth and silky and it smells absolutely amazing! This soap is sure to become a customer favorite… It’s already one of mine!

    We want all of our customers to try our new soap, so from Now until Midnight (EST) on Sunday we are offering 20% off our Deep Space Goat Milk Soap! (Discount available online only)

    Find our Deep Space Goat Milk Soap Here

  • Spring Bada-Bing and the release of Deep Space!

    This weekend is not only the weekend of Richmond Craft Mafia’s Spring Bada-Bing, but it is also the release of our newest goat milk soap – Deep Space!!

    Richmond Craft Mafia's Spring Bada Bing - The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    As Richmond Craft Mafia members the weekend of Spring Bada-Bing is big for us! We look forward to it all year long and this year we have a really amazing group of vendors. Come out and support local makers!

    April 16th

     Richmond Craft Mafia’s Spring Bada Bing

    10am – 5pm

    Hardywood Craft Brewery – 2408-2410 Ownby Ln, Richmond, VA

    We will also be debuting out newest goat milk soap variety, Deep Space. I have no doubt that this soap will quickly become a customer favorite! Check back Friday to learn all about it and pick it up for the first time this weekend! 

  • Four Weeks of Releases!

    Next week we are kicking off four exciting weeks of products releases! We have been working hard designing these amazing new products and we can’t wait to share them with all of you!

    Each Friday over the next four weeks a new product will be released and they will become available on our website and at the farmer’s markets and craft shows that we attend. Stay tuned for more details!!

    Schedule of Releases:

    Get more information on each product on it’s release date!

    • April 15th – Deep Space Goat Milk Soap
    • April 22nd – Beeswax Candles
    • April 29th – Goat Milk Lotion
    • May 6th – Final Gravity Stout Goat Milk Soap

    Website Sale!

    During the weekend of each release the newly released product will be on sale on our website! We want everyone to try our new products so we are offering 20% off Friday-Sunday.

    This sale is only available through the website. 

     

  • Best Soaps for Exfoliating

    Sometimes you just need a good exfoliating. It removes dead skin and leaves your skin looking fresh. For me personally, I love using exfoliating soaps when I come in from working out on the farm. It scrubs away the dirt and scratches away the itchiness I get from working with the straw and hay.

    Which of our soaps are the best for exfoliating?

    Coffee Goat Milk Soap

    Our Coffee Goat Milk Soap is a heavy exfoliant. In fact, it’s the heaviest exfoliant in our soap line. It has finely ground coffee beans making it super scratchy… It’s wonderful!

    Find our Coffee Goat Milk Soap Here

    Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap

    Our Rosewood Goat Milk Soap is not quite as heavy of an exfoliant as our Coffee Goat Milk Soap but it would still fall into what I would consider the “heavy exfoliant” category. Once wet this soap’s texture transitions into something similar to a pumice stone. It’s surface is smooth while still being rough. It is an amazing exfoliant!

    Find our Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap Here

    Honey Oatmeal Goat Milk Soap

    Our Honey Oatmeal Goat Milk soap is our lightest exfoliant. It has ground oatmeal throughout, which is what gives it it’s exfoliating factor. If you want an exfoliating soap, but don’t want something as course as the previous two soaps, then this is the soap for you. It gives you the experience you want from an exfoliating soap while still being on the sensitive side.

    Find our Honey Oatmeal Goat Milk Soap Here

  • What’s in our Soap Dish – April

    Spring has sprung! What’s in our soap dish for Spring?

    Spring Goat Milk Soap

    On the first day of spring we brought back our Spring Goat Milk Soap and during April it really gets some use around here. As we slowly ease into spring this soap boosts our spirits and helps us shake off the winter slump. It has the earthy scent of lemongrass and the light floral scent of rose and lavender that make us dream of the flowers that will soon be blooming all over the farm.

    Find our Spring Goat Milk Soap Here

    Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap

    Our Rosewood Salt Soap is a regular in this house, but it really gets used this time of year. It won’t be long before bare feet and flip-flops come out, so it time to get my feet back into shape after being in boots the last few months. Rosewood Salt makes a great foot bar! It exfoliates and softens.

    Find our Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap Here

  • Best Soaps for Shaving

    Two weeks ago I highlighted the best soap for your feet, since we will soon be experiencing sandal weather. With sandals also comes shorts and skirts, and tights are stored away for when fall returns. If you are like me you get out of the routine of shaving when your bare legs are no longer exposed, so now that the warm weather is returning it’s time to get back into the routine. So which of our goat milk soaps are best for shaving?

    Castile Goat Milk Soap

    We highlight this soap often, but it is such a great multi-purpose soap that it lends itself to many different needs. This soap features a wonderful lotion-like lather which gives you a perfect surface for shaving, then that moisture stays with you long after you are done! It leaves your skin feeling soft and smooth.

    Find our Castile Goat Milk Soap Here

    Cedar Goat Milk Soap

    Our Cedar Goat Milk Soap is made with the same recipe as our Castile, so it too has the perfect lather for shaving. We made it with male shave needs in mind, but it can obviously be used for both men and women. It features the deep woody scent of fresh cut cedar.

    Find our Cedar Goat Milk Soap Here

  • Using our Goat Milk Soap Laundry Detergent

    Have you had the opportunity to try our Goat Milk Soap Laundry Detergent yet?

    Goat Milk Soap Laundry Detergent from The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    Most people are very conscious of the products that they use on and put into their body. It’s time for us to think about the products we use on our clothing that sits against our skin all day. Our detergent is all natural. You simply use one tablespoon. That’s it! You don’t need any additional soaps or fabric softeners. It gets even the tough stains out and leaves your clothes feeling soft and smelling clean. Once you use it you will wonder why all laundry detergents aren’t this simple.

    Our Goat Milk Soap Laundry Detergent is safe to be used in both top loader and high efficiency machines. Our recipe has minimal sudsing, which is much better for your machine and clothes, and the ingredients are gentler on your machine and the environment!

    Find our Goat Milk Laundry Detergents Here

  • Spring is HERE!!

    It’s time for our Spring Goat Milk Soap to debut once again! You can now find it on our website and at any farmers markets and craft shows that we attend while supplies last!

    Our Spring Goat Milk Soap has the lovely bright scent of lavender and rose essential oils and the deep earthy scent of lemongrass. Kick winter to the curb! This beautiful floral mixture will bring spring right into your home.

    We make a limited quantity of this soap, so it won’t be around forever. Pick some up while it lasts.

  • We are Proud of our Recipe

    Before we opened The Freckled Farm Soap Company we knew that we needed to hit the market with a very special bar of soap. We wanted to try to stand out and make a special and unique product. We wanted to give people a reason to return over and over again!

    Kevin and I both love to research. We weren’t going to use a stock recipe out of a book or from a website, we wouldn’t stand out that way, and if we were going to include an ingredient we needed to know exactly why it was used and what it added to the soap. We had a base recipe that we had been practicing with for a while, but it was not special enough to be the recipe that represented our company. Soap making is chemistry. Each oil plays a role in the soap, making it have certain characteristic like lather quality, moisturizing properties, or even the feel of the bar itself. The base recipe had properties that we liked, but we knew we could do better. We researched to figure out what oils we needed to add and at what quantities to add the desired properties to our soap. So we made little batches making small changes each time until the recipe was perfect!

    In the end we landed on a really special recipe that was a million miles from the base recipe that we started with. We are incredibly proud of our final recipe and feel like it posses all of properties you could want in a soap. We hope that now that you know all of the thought and research that went into our final product that you enjoy our soap even more!