The Freckled Farm Soap Company

Tag: Goat Milk Soap

  • 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!

     

  • Our Top Goat Milk Soap Sellers

    All of our Goat Milk Soaps sell fairly well, otherwise we wouldn’t keep them in our line, however we have a handful of soaps that are far and away our top sellers. Customers come back for them time and time again!

    Peppermint Eucalyptus Goat Milk Soap

    Our Peppermint Eucalyptus Goat Milk Soap has been our top seller since day 1! It’s our most popular bar of soap by far. People love its crisp scent! Customers enjoy its natural cooling effect when it’s warm outside and its invigorating feeling when it’s cold outside. It’s a great soap to use year round!

    Find our Peppermint Eucalyptus Goat Milk Soap Here

    Lavender Goat Milk Soap

    Our Lavender Goat Milk Soap is a surefire crowd pleaser. This soap has always been one of our top sellers. There are very few people who don’t like the scent of lavender. It’s a wonderful, relaxing fragrance that is sure to please.

    Find our Lavender Goat Milk Soap Here

    Deep Sea Goat Milk Soap

    For the longest time we thought nothing could possibly rival our Peppermint Eucalyptus when it came to popularity. It always sold significantly more than the other bars. However, in 2014 we debuted our Deep Sea Goat Milk Soap and it sold better than we could have ever expected. At first we had trouble keeping up with demand. We would sell out and people would try to buy our sample! Now we are always sure to have a healthy stock of this soap!

    Find our Deep Sea Goat Milk Soap Here

  • Goat Milk Guest Soaps

    At The Freckled Farm Soap Company we love making custom soaps. We do them fairly often for wedding and shower favors, however did you know that we also make them for hotels and bed and breakfasts for their guest soaps?

    Custom Order Goat Milk Guest Soaps and Wedding Favors - The Freckled Farm Soap CompanyThe image above is an example of a guest soap we made for a bed and breakfast in New York last year. Our half bars are the perfect size for guest soaps and we are able to make custom packaging with your logo and a message to your guest. This means you get custom branded soaps at a reasonable price, something that is normally too expensive for the smaller hospitality companies.

    Give your visitors something special to remember their stay! Contact me for more details on how to get your own custom soaps for your hospitality establishment.

  • Best Soaps for Your Feet

    Later this month winter will be coming to a close and spring will begin to bud. While it hasn’t been a particularly difficult winter our feet have all still been trapped in boots and closed shoes. It’s time to give our feet some love before we bring out the sandals and flip-flops. The following is our Goat Milk Soap that will help get your feet in shape for warmer weather.

    Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap

    When our Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap gets wet the texture transforms to something similar to a pumice stone. This soap is made with Himalayan Pink Salt making it a wonderful exfoliator. It will help polish away all of the winter funk. It’s perfect for getting your feet looking beautiful and sandal ready!

    Find our Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap Here

  • What’s in our Soap Dish – March

    We are in the home stretch of winter and this month brings many changes to The Freckled Farm. New growth, and new babies! It’s a wonderful time of year on a farm! Find out how these changes change the soap in our soap dish! So, what’s in our soap dish in March?…

    Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap

    I have a confession… I’m OCD. Actually this may only be a confession to some of the customers who don’t know me well because my friends and family are well aware. Kevin says he can actually see it in my eyes when I’ve been triggered. While I have several triggers, things like raw meat and certain farm activities are my biggest.  Daily chores don’t bother me, but when it comes to things like mucking the chicken coop, doing the big mucking of the barn to remove the winter’s deep bedding, and unfortunately dealing with chicks from hatcheries, I have to wash… constantly. So, what’s an OCD person, use to feel really clean? Tea Tree!

    Why have I picked this soap for this month? Baby chicks! The baby chicks will be delivered soon. Yes, they are cute. Yes, I love having them around. They are great, but they are also dirty, kicking up their dust and pooping everywhere, and they carry bacteria (like all chickens)…. and they are in my house! Yep, that’s right. We keep the chicks in the mudroom until they get a little older and can move to the outside brooder. So this month I am going to be using a lot of tea tree soap!

    You can find our Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap Here

  • What’s in our Bits and Pieces?

    Have you ever wondered what’s inside our Bits and Pieces Bags?

    Bits and Pieces Goat Milk Soap from The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    Our Bits and Pieces bags are filled with a pound of the odds and ends of soaps that we cannot sell in our regular packaging. You may find full size bars that do not  make the weight that we state on our packaging or the little slivers left at the end when we cut the soap bars from the loaf or even soaps that have been recently discontinued or are out of season. We do our best to make each bag with varieties that pair well together. Our Bits and Pieces is a great way to get a fun variety of our Goat Milk Soaps at a significantly reduced price.

    The image above was the contents of one Bits and Pieces bag

  • The Soap Testers

    We put our Goat Milk Soap and other products through rigorous testing before we make it available to the public. We don’t want to release a product that isn’t of the highest quality, so we take our soap testers’ and customers’ feedback very seriously.

    When it comes to our soap we spent around six months developing the perfect recipe and then another few months having our soap testers use the soap and give us feedback. They gave us feedback on how the soap made their skin feel, and how they felt about the quality of the lather. If they had skin conditions they informed us of how the soap affected it. After about a year from when we first started to develop our unique recipe we finally felt that it was ready to roll out to the public.

    When it came to our laundry detergent we wanted to make sure we had testers with all kinds of machines; new, old, top loader, high efficiency. We had them share their experience with different types of stains and how the detergent affected different types of clothing. A great deal of research had gone into the recipe of our goat milk laundry detergent, but feedback from our testers means so much when it comes to the final product.

    This year we have several new products debuting and you better believe that we are putting each one of those products through the paces! You can always be assured that we won’t release a product that we don’t feel is perfect.

  • Best Soaps for Teenagers

    I cannot tell you how many times I have had an exasperated mother of a teenaged boy ask what soap works the best for teenagers. Teenagers have “special” soap needs. So which of our goat milk soaps do I suggest you purchase for your teenager?

    What’s something all teenagers desperately need from their soap?…. A deodorizer. Am I wrong? We have two soaps that are awesome deodorizers, our Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap and our Coffee Goat Milk Soap. They are both great for neutralizing body odors.

    The Coffee Goat Milk Soap, with it’s gritty lather, is also great for getting grease, grime, and dirt off their skin from whatever their hobby may be… Be it art, sports, shop, robotics, etc.

    I highly recommend either of these soaps for your teenager!

  • Sustainable Palm Oil and Our Goat Milk Soap

    Palm Oil is a very controversial ingredient. It is an edible oil that derives from the palm fruit, grown on the African Oil Palm Tree. Oil palms originated in Africa, but now can be found in all warm weather climates around the world. This oil is found in a very large percentage of the items we use everyday including food, soaps, shampoos, toothpaste, and cleaning agents. It is the second largest vegetable oil used world wide. Because of the wide spread use this industry contributes heavily to deforestation, habitat degradation, animal cruelty, as well as climate change.

    So why does the soap industry use palm oil? Well, this particular oil includes a hard to find form of vitamin E, tocopherol, and also has the ability to remove oil and dirt while protecting the natural oils of your skin and hair. It’s an important part of the soap making industry.

    Now for the good news… There is a way to continuing to use palm oil without harming the environment. At The Freckled Farm Soap Company we only use organic, sustainable, palm oil. This means our palm oil is ethically farmed with organic practices. Our oil supplier has produced to us a certificate stating their product comes from a sustainable source that meets the rigorous requirements set forth by the RSPO. These requirements ensure that the land, animal inhabitants, as well the indigenous people who work the land are treated fairly, and ethically, while carrying out ecologically safe farming practices. This allows you to take advantage of the benefits of this oil without worry that you are contributing to harming the environment and actually contributes to helping ensure these practices become more common.

  • What’s the lather like?

    This is a question I receive frequently from new customers. People are often surprised, and maybe a little disappointed, when they use a handmade soap for the first time and find that the lather is not as robust as they are used to with their commercial bar. I will commonly have customers, who are looking to use our soap for the first time, ask what they can expect from our lather.

    Goat Milk Soap Lather

    I want to start off by saying that there is a good reason why handmade soaps often do not lather as strongly as their commercial counterparts. Commercial soaps frequently contain sulfates. Sulfates are used as a foaming agent that helps the soap to quickly develop a thick lather. There are countless articles out there that debate the use of sulfates, whether they are safe for you or the environment. Whether or not you believe that they are “safe” there is a decent amount of evidence that shows that sulfates can cause skin irritation.

    The important thing to remember is that the lather itself does not get your skin clean. We have been conditioned to believe that a thick lather is necessary for the soap to do it’s job… It’s not. So why include an ingredient that is not necessary and is potentially harmful?

    With that said, what about our lather? We understand that our customers want lather, so when we were developing our recipe we designed a mixture of oils that promotes a more robust lather than is often found in homemade soaps. We do this naturally just with the percentage of a few key oils within our soap.

    So, what’s our lather like? For most of our soap line it is full, silky, and bubbly. It gives you the experiences that you are looking for and leaves your skin feeling soft and clean. The lather of our Castile Goat Milk Soap and our Cedarwood Goat Milk Soap is more lotion-like. It’s slick and full, making it a perfect soap for shaving. Finally there is our Rosewood Salt Goat Milk Soap. The lather for this particular soap is a little thinner than the others, because of the salt, but it still bubbles up nicely.

    We put a lot of effort and research into naturally getting the perfect lather for our soaps. Give it a try! You won’t be disappointed!