The Freckled Farm Soap Company

Tag: Goat Milk Soap

  • Summer Goat Milk Soap Giveaway!

    Today is the Summer Solstice and we are extremely excited to introduce our new Summer Goat Milk Soap! This soap was created with your summer skin care needs in mind. It is made with goat milk (of course!), natural oils, aloe, and green tea. It is scent free and is perfect for those days when you feel that you have maybe gotten a little too much sun!

    Summer Goat Milk Soap Giveaway from The Freckled Farm Soap CompanyWe all know the benefits of aloe on dry, sunburnt, and irritated skin. Who hasn’t slathered themselves with aloe after a day of spending to much time in the sun? With our Summer soap we use the aloe in addition to our goat milk as a base, making this soap even more moisturizing and healing! It calms and cools skin. Green tea has been shown in studies to help repair damaged skin cells  and fight free radicals caused be UV rays. So as you can see this soap calms, cools, and can help repair your skin. It’s the prefect summer soap!

    Enter Below for your chance to win TWO bars of our Summer Goat Milk Soap with an additional bar of your choice…

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    All entries will be verified. If the individual entering does not follow through with the entry action (i.e. liking our Facebook page, following us on Instagram, etc) then the entry will be void. The giveaway is valid to US citizens only. Winner will be notified on June 29th and will have 48 hours to send the address of where they would like their soaps to be mailed.

  • West End Market

    I haven’t been keeping up with the blog in the last few weeks. It’s just been too busy! I hope to write an update soon, as we have a bunch of really great things coming up (including a giveaway of our Summer soap!). Right now I am just taking a second to let everyone know that we will be at the West End Market for the first time this week and we will be there sporadically throughout the rest of the summer. We are so glad to be added to this great market! Come out and see us Saturday!

  • What’s up Wednesday – 5/14

    The name of the game the last two weeks has been FENCING! Kevin took the week off last week so we could fence the buck pasture and a new pasture of the girls and llamas. We hoped to get both done on his week off…. well that didn’t happen. The surveyor marketed our line for the new pasture and the space ended up being much larger than we had expected, so that in addition to me having work with the photography business, farmers markets, and having to care for two small children, who have schedules and nap times, we are really behind. We managed to get all of the post holes dug for both pastures, and the posts set and about half the fence up for the buck pasture. It looks like this project is going to span over the next 4 or 5 weekends now. It will all be worth it when it’s done.

    Fencing the buck pasture is more important than the new pasture for the girls since we pick up our herd sire on Sunday! We also have to finish painting the buck house, put up the hay feeder, build the pasture door, and put the roof “shingles” on. Needless to say that we have a busy few days ahead of us. Kevin has been stretching the fence in the morning before he leaves for work and I have been going out after chores/milking and breakfast to staple/nail the fencing to the posts. We are chipping off little bits at a time. I hope to share pictures of the pastures in progress and of our new buck next week! I don’t think I have even been so busy in my whole life!!

    In other news, we have been working on June’s soap and it’s something very different, so we are hoping it comes together before June 1st! I can’t wait to share more about it.

  • Mother’s Day Giveaway!

    Mother’s day is this Sunday and in honor of this very important holiday we are doing a Mother’s Day “Spa Package” giveaway! Moms are some of the hardest working people in the world and we want to give one lucky momma out there a way to pamper herself.

    Mothers day giveaway from the Freckled Farm Soap Company

    This is a rare treat for those of you who are not able to come out and see us in person at the farmers markets or craft shows, because our bath teas and scrubs are not currently available on our website!

    Bath Teas

    Bath Tea from The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    Bath teas are a wonderful way to pamper yourself without making a mess of your bath. Each tea bag is stuffed with lovely things like flower petals, oatmeal, epsom salt, and essential oils. Place the bag under the running water of your bath and enjoy the wonderful benefits of these ingredients. If you are looking for a treat cut the bag open and pour the contents directly in the water and enjoy a bath surrounded with flowers and more.

    • Relaxing Garden of Flowers (pictured above)
    • Calming Lavender and Oatmeal
    • Invigorating Orange
    • Rejuvenating Green Tea

    Sugar and Salt Scrub

    Deep Sea blog

    It’s that time of year! Time to shed our winter skin and prepare for summer! Our wonderful scrubs exfoliate and moisturize. Our salt scrubs, called scrub and soaks, give you the option to apply them directly to your skin or to spoon several tablespoons into the running water of your bath and enjoy a relaxing soak.

    • Deep Sea Salt Scrub and Soak (pictured above)
    • Rosemary Mint Salt Scrub and Soak
    • Coconut Lime Sugar Scrub
    • Citrus Sugar and Goat Milk Soap Scrub

    Thank you moms for all that you do! It’s

    time to enjoy some ME time 

    Enter below to win your choice of one of our goat milk soaps, scrubs, and bath teas:

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    All entries will be verified. If the action was not completed, such as liking the Facebook page or commenting, the entry will be voided. Must be a United States resident to enter.

  • Introducing – Tea Tree

    It’s the first of the month which means it’s time to introduce a new soap scent! This month’s goat milk soap is one that we have gotten a ton of requests for – Tea Tree!

    Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap from The Freckled Farm Soap Company

    Tea tree is a popular essential oil that is widely used for it’s many amazing properties. It is antiseptic, anti-viral, and anti-fungal.  It has also been said to cure acne and even out complexions. So this would make a great soap for someone who is trying to treat skin blemishes. Tea tree can also be used to relieve itchy skin and poison ivy.

    Our tea tree goat milk soap can now be found on our website!

  • What’s up Wednesday – 4/30

    We have a BIG weekend ahead of us! If you follow our blog you know that the My Manakin Farmers Market opens this weekend. We are so excited to be a part of this market and look forward to starting the routine of having 2 markets a week! On top of that we have 3… Yes THREE… products debuting this week. Tomorrow our May soap will debut and on Saturday we will be debuting our scrubs and bath teas to our market customers! The scrubs and bath teas will then be available on the website next weekend. There is so much to look forward to!

    The rain from the last few days has turned the farm into a giant pond. I am going to have to swim to the barn for farm chores tonight. While I normally don’t mind the rain I’m looking forward to a dry weekend.

    Finally, this up coming Monday starts the fencing extravaganza! Kevin is taking the week off of work so we can fence off the buck pasture as well as a new pasture for the girls. I know the girls are going to be so excited to get ahold off all those brambles that will be in the new pasture.

  • My Manakin Market

    This Saturday will be our first day at the My Manakin Market and we will have our new Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap with us.

    We love being a part of this group of vendors and can’t wait to see everyone! Come out and see us and support all of the wonderful vendors at this great farmer’s market.

    Saturday May 3rd

    10am-1pm 

    68 Broad Street Road in Manakin-Sabot, VA

  • What’s up Wednesday – 4/23

    Another busy, productive week on the farm! This past weekend we finally found time to build the buck house. Bad weather and incredibly busy schedules had forced us to put off that project a lot longer than we had originally planned. It came together nicely and will make a good home for our boys. Now we just need to paint it, put up the boys’ bed, hang the hay feeder, and fence. We should be picking up our buck in the next few weeks, so hopefully it will come together before then.

    We had a pretty unpleasant experience this weekend… While doing farm chores on Saturday we found a snake in the hay. At this point we don’t know if it was a baby black snake or baby copperhead. Our instincts said copperhead so we killed it and threw it far away in the woods. I would have never killed a black snake, but any copperhead needs to be eliminated! The babies are especially scary. After the fact we were looking at pictures of both baby black snakes and baby copperheads and they look quite similar. Either way a snake is a sign of mice and you do NOT want mice in your hay. So our “we think we might need to get a barn cat soon” turned to “we need to get a barn cat now!” We went to our friend Donna’s farm (Money Pitt Acres) to pick out one of the cats she was trying to rehome. We brought him home, set him up in a kennel on the porch and fed him. We were instructed to leave him in a kennel for a few days so he was able to learn that this was his new home. Unfortunately, yesterday, when Kevin was cleaning out the kennel the cat got out and ran away and we haven’t seen him since. We are all very upset about it and have tuna sitting on the porch hoping he will come back… which I sure will attract more than just our cat, but it’s worth the risk.

    We are still working on the new scrubs and bath teas! We are hoping to debut them at the opening of My Manakin Market on May 3rd. We have gotten the thumbs up from our testers and now it just requires us to get labels together. We are so excited about offering these awesome new products! We are also only a week away from debuting our May goat milk soap! Check back to see what it is.

  • RVA Earth Day

    This weekend we will be selling our goat milk soaps at the RVA Earth Day Festival! This is a huge event and we are so excited to be a part of it.

    Earth Day

    April 26th, 2014

    11am – 7pm

    Manchester and Mayo Island

  • What’s up Wednesday – 4/9

    I’m sorry that I have been so bad with the farm updates lately. Things have been a little crazy around here. I am done edited in the pictures from Hillary’s labor, now comes the issue of finding time to write the blog post… But I promise it will be soon. The babies are doing wonderfully. They are about twice the size they were at birth. They are so much fun and the kids absolutely love spending time with them in the kid pasture. They all have such wonderful personalities and are going to make great additions to our herd.

    We are so behind in our gardening this year. Anything that needed to be started inside has been done, but anything that could have been planted outside already (peas, green onions, and such) have been put off. None of our new beds have even been filled with dirt yet… schedules and weather has delayed the delivery, but it is set to come tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully the yard will be dry enough for them to drive across it!

    The baby chicks are getting so big. One of the ones that we thought was a buff orpington, because it was identical to the other buff orpingtons the day they were delivered, turned out to be one of the easter eggers, and one of the ones that we thought was an easter egger we think might in fact be one of the marans. It does look like we may have gotten multiple maran roosters, but only time will tell on that one. It won’t be long and we will be moving the older chickens into the pasture so they can free range and the new chicks into the old coop. I can’t wait to see how the maran eggs turn out!

    Just when you think we have enough going on…. We have some exciting news! We will soon be adding salt scrubs, sugar scrubs, and bath teas to our line!! We are currently in the research and development phase, but I expect to debut them in the next month, just as soon as our testers give our recipes a thumbs up. So keep an eye out for those!

    The Wednesday market in Goochland Courthouse moved outside last week. It was so nice to be out in the sun and the children liked having the space to run, and playground to play on. We will be outside from now on so come and visit. We have some really great vendors! Today there should be a few veggies, eggs, sausage, brunswick stew, bread, goat cheese, mustard… and of course our soaps!