The Freckled Farm Soap Company

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  • Black Friday * Small Business Saturday * Cyber Monday Sale!

    It’s time for our biggest sale of the year! All this weekend (Friday-Monday) enjoy 20% off everything on our website and few shipping on all orders $50+!

    The Freckled Farm Soap Company Sale

    This time of year we always feel extraordinarily grateful. We are about to close out another successful year and it is all because of our wonderful loyal customers… like you! Because of you we are able to continue doing what we love, so every year we do this big holiday sale to give back to our amazing customers. Its a great time to do your holiday shopping or stock up for yourself! Head over to our website now and take advantage of our sale!

  • Come see us this weekend!

    We have a HUGE weekend ahead of us! Every year the first weekend in December we are extremely busy and this year is no exception. We are in a total of 4 location! We have around 1500 bars of goat milk soap going out to these 4 locations… Busy. Please come out and see us:

  • Priced for Everyday Use

    Our biggest goal when starting our soap company almost 5 years ago was to offer the highest quality soap possible while remaining affordably priced. We wanted our soaps to be considered everyday-use bars and not a splurge.

    Everyday Use Goat Milk Soap from The Freckled Farm Soap Company in Virginia

    There are all kinds of soap customers can choose from… Beautiful soaps that look amazing displayed next to your sink. Soaps that are big splurges you purchase when you really need a treat. Soaps that are works of art that make great gifts. While I hope our soaps fit into those categories listed above to some degree our hope was to be the soap you grab for everyday in the shower. Your “go to” soap for the kitchen or bathroom sink. The soap you use all the time. In order to become this soap for our customers we needed to be priced for everyday use.

    We have maintained our prices all these years. They remained the same even after we switched to organic oils from sustainable sources a few years back. We just made adjustments to our own habits (like buying the oils in very large qualities to lower our costs) so the costs associated with those upgrades were not passed on to our customers. We have done whatever we can to keep our prices steady and we will continue to do what we can to maintain prices for our customers! We hope you choose us as your “go to” soap!

     

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  • Summer Hours at South of the James

    Summer farmers markets are about to be in full swing and South of the James (our only year round market) is about to move to their summer hours! 

    Starting this week GrowRVA’s South of the James Farmers Market is opening an hour earlier at 8am! Come out to see us all summer long from 8am-12pm!

    Saturdays

    Summer Market Starting May 5th

    8am – 12pm

    Forest Hill Park – New Kent Ave & 42nd Street, Richmond

     

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  • 2018 Farmers Market Season

    We are gearing up for a very exciting season at the farmers markets. We have made some big changes to our schedule this year! We will be at the Charlottesville City Market through the summer. We will be moving to part time at the West End Farmers market. We will no longer be at the Fairgrounds Farmers Market. The Powhatan Farmers Market is now the Westchester Farmers Market… But as always we will be at South of the James (we love our GrowRVA family). Here is our schedule for the upcoming summer:

    The Freckled Farm Soap Company's Farmers Market Booth

    Thursdays:

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  • 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!

  • 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!

  • Where to find us this Winter!

    It’s easy to fall into the winter blues when it seems like not a lot is happening on the weekends. You are stuck inside all week. That’s not how you want to spend your weekends too! During the rest of the year its so nice to start your weekend off with a visit to the farmers markets to stock up on all of your needs and maybe pick up a tasty breakfast, but during the winter what is there to do? Guess what… In Virginia there are still awesome farmers markets to visit. Winter markets have increased greatly over the last few years, so now you don’t have to go without! So where can you pick up our goat milk soaps, laundry detergent, and lotions this winter:

    South of the James Farmers Market – It’s undeniable… South of the James is one of the top farmers markets in Virginia and it’s year round! We feel beyond grateful to have such a wonderful place to offer our products. We are out at SOJ every single Saturday of the year, unless the governor declares a state of emergency because of hazardous weather. During the summer there are an incredible number of vendors and many of those vendors stay on all year. If you are coming during the winter you will not be disappointed. Everything you need is still there! There is always at least one or two veggie vendors, honey, dog treats, our goat milk soap products, the list goes on and on… and there are always lots of great choices for breakfast.

    Visit South of the James Farmers Market – Every Saturday during the winter – 9am-12pm – New Kent Ave & 42nd Street, Richmond, VA 23225 

    The Winter Farmers Market at IX Park – This is a brand new winter market in Charlottesville. It has a great selection and is both indoors and outdoors. You can find us at one of the outdoor spots on select Saturdays… Which is hopefully most Saturdays through March.

    Visit The Winter Farmers Market at IX Park – Saturdays during the winter – 9am-1pm – 522 2nd Street SE in Charlottesville, Virginia

    We are also in the process of applying to several craft shows that will take place this winter so please continue to check in on our Where to Buy page on our website for more up to date information.

     

  • 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!

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    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!

  • 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!