If you’ve listened or watched any of my interviews, you’ve probably heard the story about how I started making soap. Since Brett was a newborn, I had always used the same baby wash on her. It was the one that had been given to me in the hospital and the scent always smelled just like “baby” to me. So I used it on all the children.
And then one day in 2006 I was bathing all the children and they were playing in the bath tub. While I was sitting there keeping an eye on things, I picked up the baby wash and read the ingredient list. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. It was FULL of chemicals and I even recognized some of them as petroleum based chemicals.
That was it. I was done with that baby wash. My 10 year love affair with it was over. In my opinion, they had betrayed my trust by allowing me to slather chemicals all over my babies’ skin.
So I started making my own soap.
As I learned more about soapmaking, I discovered that most manufactured soaps use chemicals. In fact, many of the so called soaps on the market are actually detergents. Which of course leads to the question, what is a detergent? And what’s the difference between a detergent and soap?
Well, I’ve taken the time to write an article about it for you – Detergents and Soaps – What’s the Difference?
I hope you too choose to avoid the chemicals that are in most detergents and choose a more natural soap like Goat Milk Stuff.
PJ-
Thanks so much for this post. It is unreal what nasty ingredients so many products on our store shelves contain. Unfortunately, people think because they are for sale and are FDA approved, they are safe. After many years of buying them myself, I am finding out that couldn’t be further from the truth. I was blessed to be able to find GMS several months ago by doing an internet search for all natural goat milk soap. I had used another brand of goat milk products in the past, but as I started to gravitate toward more natural products, I noticed some of the ingredients weren’t very good. Anyway, I was blessed to find your family and your products, and I appreciate that you look out for others’ interests by only selling things that are good for us! I fully trust the integrity of GMS, and I won’t need to look elsewhere from now on. 🙂 I appreciate the fact that you sell soap, and not detergent. If only I had all the money back I’ve wasted in the past on products that were full of nasty chemicals!
Hi Jonie – it really is amazing to me what they allow. I think it’s all a grand conspiracy. 😉 I’m so glad that you found us too. And I’m not perfect, but I try very hard to make good healthy choices for all of us. 🙂
PJ
I truly love what you guys do. I felt horrified learning that the baby soap commonly used allows chemicals in baby soap in the US that other countries have banned.
I know, it makes me sad how much we have to deal with and try to protect our children from. PJ