The Freckled Farm Soap Company

Tag: All Natural

  • Soap Highlight – Coffee Goat Milk Soap

    Our Coffee Goat Milk Soap is such a versatile soap!

    Our Coffee Goat Milk Soap is great for cooks, gardeners, mechanics, and so much more. The soap itself doesn’t have a very strong scent (it smells a little like cream with a slight hint of coffee) but it is excellent for neutralizing strong scents. It helps remove scents like garlic and onion from your skin, making it an excellent kitchen soap. The coffee grounds act as a heavy exfoliant, for when you need some exfoliation, but it’s also great for removing dirt stains from gardeners hands or grease stains from the skin of people who were working on machinery.

    This soap is made with a coffee infused oil that we make, espresso, and fresh coffee grounds. All the coffee we use is rainforest safe!

    If you would like to purchase a bar of our Coffee Goat Milk Soap visit our website

     

  • The Goat Milk in Our Goat Milk Soap

    The most important ingredient in our soap is obviously the goat milk from our own little dairy goat herd. It’s what makes our soap so special and it comes from the most spoiled goats!

    We have a wonderful, symbiotic relationship with the animals on our farm. Our goats give us this amazing, rich, fresh milk for our goat milk soap and we spoil them rotten. Our goats receive organic hay from a farm in Doswell, VA, non-GMO grain from a farm in Staunton, VA, kelp from the Arctic Ocean (because it is said to contain less mercury), black oil sunflower seeds and alfalfa pellets, ample pastures, and a nice solid barn. They get lots of love and attention. We keep our herd as small as possible so we can really monitor their health and so nothing goes unnoticed. We don’t take any chances with their health and consult our outstanding farm vet at the first sign that something might be wrong. We are closed herd, meaning our goats are not exposed to other goats or locations, and when people come to visit us we require they use the shoe wash so no foreign parasites or bacteria is introduced to our herd. We take our jobs as their caretakers very seriously and make sure we give them the best lives possible.

    You can feel comfortable using our soap knowing that the animals on our farm are treated with extreme love and care!

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  • Soap Highlight – Cleopatra Goat Milk Soap

    If you are a fan of earthy, spicy scents then our Cleopatra Goat Milk Soap might be the soap for you!

    Cleopatra is one of my favorite soaps that we make. It is scented with frankincense and myrrh essential oils, which gives it this wonderfully warm, almost spicy, aroma. It was not a scent combination that I expected to enjoy so much but after that first batch it quickly became one of my go to soaps!

    This fabulous soap received it’s name because of Cleopatra’s famed use of goat milk and frankincense in her beauty regiment.

    To purchase a bar of our Cleopatra Goat Milk Soap visit our website!

  • Soap Sets – Gifts

    Because it’s not often that you know other people’s scent preferences customers often ask me to help them pick out soaps that they can give as a gift. I find that it is best to stick with our most popular soaps or the more neutral scents when giving something like soap as a gift, so the four soaps listed below are the ones I tend to suggest.

    From left to right – Peppermint Eucalyptus, Lemongrass Green Tea, Lavender, Oatmeal Honey.

    Peppermint Eucalyptus Goat Milk Soap – Although this is a strong scent it is one that tends to please most customers. After our Deep Space Goat Milk soap this is our next top seller. I have met very few people who don’t love this soap. It has a crisp, clean scent that leaves you feeling refreshed

    Lemongrass Green Tea Goat Milk Soap – This soap has a wonderful mild earthy scent. It’s not too feminine or masculine. It’s wonderfully neutral.

    Lavender Goat Milk Soap – Most people love lavender, and those who don’t love it at least enjoy soap scented with it. It’s a real crowd pleaser.

    Oatmeal Honey Goat Milk Soap – Our Oatmeal Honey is sensitive and scent free. It has a wonderful soft lather and a mild exfoliant due to the ground oatmeal. With this soap you don’t have to worry about the scent at all, just the quality of the soap.

  • Making Bits and Pieces

    Once a month or so I sit down and spend a day assembling our Bits and Pieces. Bits and Pieces are one pound grab bags of our goat milk soap.

    Sometimes during the soap making process soaps get damaged. They get air bubbles, or dents. Sometimes they don’t make the weight that is stated on our package or we have leftover end pieces from cutting the bars from the loafs. All of these “less than perfect” soaps go into our Bits and Pieces in order to prevent waste. They are still great soaps. They just don’t meet the extremely high standards that we require of the soap that we sell as bars. We always try to include at least one full bar of soap and at least two scents. It’s a wonderful way to try different soaps at a discounted price!

    If you would like to purchase a Bits and Pieces for yourself visit our Website!

  • Soap Highlight – Deep Sea Goat Milk Soap

    Have you tried our Deep Sea Goat Milk soap? It is a wonderful deep cleanser that offers a great, spa-like, experience.

    Scented with eucalyptus, juniper berry, and rosemary essential oils, it has a wonderful aroma that will remind you of a day at the spa. This awesome soap features three natural powders that aid in the cleansing process; kelp, spiralina, and orange peel powder. It’s a wonderful experience overall and a great way to pamper yourself!

    Kelp, spiraline, orange peel powder

    Visit our website to pick up a bar of our Deep Sea Goat Milk Soap 

  • Topped or Not Topped… That is the question!

    When we first got into the soap making business we had three soaps that included a decorative topping. The vast majority of our customers adored these embellishments but there were a few that didn’t like that they came off over the course of several uses, so we started to offer a topped and a not topped option for each. Today we only make two soaps with this option.

    Our Lavender Goat Milk Soap is topped with beautiful blue/purple lavender buds. It doesn’t affect the scent of the soap and is purely decorative.

    Our Oatmeal Honey Goat Milk Soap is topped with oats but again this is just a decoration. Topped or not topped our Oatmeal Honey has ground oatmeal throughout, making it a light exfoliant.

    Which choice is best for you? When customers ask me which they should pick I always tell them… If you plan to put the soap on display at the sink or if the topping just makes you happy then go with the topped option. If you don’t care either way, or plan to use the soap in the bath (which means the little lavender buds or oats will be floating around you) then go with the untopped option.

  • Beveling our Goat Milk Soap

    At The Freckled Farm Soap Company we hand bevel the edges of each bar of our goat milk soap. We do this because it improves the feel during use and because it gives each bar a cleaner look!

    When we first started making goat milk soap we would hand out samples to friends and family to get feedback. Their responses were incredibly helpful and in several cases really shaped the way we do things still to this day. One piece of feedback that we felt was incredibly valuable was that the corners of the soap were a little sharp the first few uses. We definitely agreed, and even though it involved a lot of extra work, we decided to start hand beveling the edges of each bar. That the way the experience using our soap is great from the beginning.

    As we started beveling large batches of soap we soon found that it not only improved the feel of the the bar during use but it also improved the overall appearance of each bar. It makes the soap look cleaner and more uniform. Our customer’s experience, the whole experience, is extremely important to us, so we continue to do it to this day, even as our production continues to grow.

     We will continue to do whatever can to make sure our customers have a great experience with our soap. We hope you appreciate the love and care that goes into each bar of soap!

  • Soap Sets – Soaps for Men

    At The Freckled Farm Soap Company we run a special deal if you purchase four bars of soap together (our 4 for $20 deal). With this deal in mind we thought it would be fun to put together sets of four bars with specific customers or for specific purposes in mind to help customers find the best set for themselves. Over the course of the next year I will periodically post sets of soap that will help you pick the perfect 4 for $20 deal for yourself!

    This first set are the bars of soap that our male customers tend to gravitate towards. Obviously not all men are the same and we have male customers who use our entire line of soap, but these four bars are the ones that are most often chosen by men.

    Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap – This bar of soap is 50% Himalayan pink salt and has a light floral/woody scent. Once wet it has a pumice like texture. This has been our number one seller to our male customers for years.

    Irish Goodbye Stout Goat Milk Soap – What man doesn’t want a beer soap? This soap is made with 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.

    Virginia Cedar Goat Milk Soap – Not only does this soap have an excellent woody scent but it also makes a fantastic shave bar. It has the same thick, lotion like lather as the Castile Goat Milk Soap giving you a nice smooth shave.

    Deep Space Goat Milk Soap – This is an overall top seller. Everybody seems to love this black bar of soap. Women love it because it’s such a great soap for your face. Men seem to love it because it’s black.

  • Our Goat Milk Soap Laundry Detergent

    Our Goat Milk Soap Laundry Detergent is really special. Before we started making it we were always searching for a detergent that wouldn’t cause our daughter (who was a toddler at the time) to break out in hives. Her skin was incredibly sensitive and it seemed like any contact with clothing washed in detergent that wasn’t free and clear would make her skin develop these horrible red splotches. We decided we wanted to make something that would be sensitive enough of her to use and that wouldn’t put nasty chemicals into our water system.

    So we developed this simple, yet incredibly powerful, detergent. It gets out the tough stains left behind from our farm, like red clay, without irritating our daughter’s sensitive skin, and is nearly suds-free, making it better for your machine and our water system. It’s made with our Castile Goat Milk Soap, borax, and washing soda. You only use a tablespoon… that’s right a tablespoon!

    You can start by purchasing one of our adorable refillable glass jars ($20 each). Which comes with a cute wooden scoop (pictured above). Once you have used the detergent in the jar you can refill it with our laundry refills. The refills are only $8 each which means the loads only costs about 14 cents each!

    Do you want to try out our laundry detergent? You can find it here!