PJ Jonas

Category: Soap & Stuff

  • How To Help Dry Knuckles

    How To Help Dry Knuckles

    If you’ve been with Goat Milk Stuff long, you’ve probably heard me say that when I first started making our goat milk soap, I initially made it for the children, because I did not want a bunch of chemicals on their skin.  But when I put the soap in the shower, Jim’s fingers stopped cracking and splitting.…

  • Grammy’s Gift Baskets

    Grammy’s Gift Baskets

    For any skills I have in craftiness and gifting, I credit my mother.  While growing up, she and I spent countless happy hours creating themed gifts for friends and family members.  We used items that we had picked up on sale throughout the year, or had discovered in a little gift shop somewhere.  I learned…

  • How to Cure Goat Milk Soap

    How to Cure Goat Milk Soap

    Now that we have goat milk soap logs and log pieces available, we are often asked how to cure them.  I asked Emery to put together a video of the process for everyone. Didn’t he do a great job?  Let us know if you still have any questions!     

  • From Goats to Goat Milk Soap

    From Goats to Goat Milk Soap

    This is one of my favorites from all the videos we’ve ever done. It gives you just a glimpse of all the hard work that goes into making our goat milk soaps. What did you think?    

  • 6 Reasons to Avoid Petroleum Jelly on Your Skin

    6 Reasons to Avoid Petroleum Jelly on Your Skin

    Early in 2006, I had all the children (6 at the time) in the bathtub.  While they were playing around, I picked up the bottle of baby wash I had always used.  For the first time ever, I looked at the ingredient list and I was horrified when I realized that it was full of…

  • Shampoo Bar for Natural Hair Care

    Shampoo Bar for Natural Hair Care

    Goat Milk Stuff makes a solid shampoo bar as a natural alternative to most store bought shampoos.  We do not add any harsh chemicals such as SLS to our shampoo bar because we believe that using fewer chemicals benefits your health and your hair.   My boys regularly get “buzz cuts” and have very little…

  • From Goats to Soap

    From Goats to Soap

    Ever wonder how we go from baby goats to goat milk soap?   First, you start with a female baby goat.   Then you feed that baby goat (and her friends) lots of milk. And lots of hay.  And lots of trees. When the baby goat is about 7 months old, you breed her to…

  • Is Titanium Dioxide Safe in Soap?

    Is Titanium Dioxide Safe in Soap?

    Recently, we’ve been asked why we use titanium dioxide in our black raspberry, clean cotton, and ocean goat milk soaps.  We add a tiny amount because those three soaps tend to take on a grey hue.  The titanium dioxide lightens the soap and makes them a lot prettier.  We feel that adding small amounts of titanium dioxide to…

  • Today in The Soap Room

    Today in The Soap Room

    Today in the soap room we… Unmolded “Emery’s Flower Garden” goat milk soap: Unmolded mimosa mandarin goat milk soap: Unmolded some fancy pink sugary goat milk soaps we made yesterday: Mixed a batch of cider press goat milk soap logs (as well as chardonnay logs):  Fooled around with our siblings: Another good day in the…

  • March Goat Milk Soap

    March Goat Milk Soap

    We have about thirty soap types that we keep available year round. Because there are lots of other good scents, we rotate them in and out so they are available once a year. We refer to them as limited edition soaps. January’s limited edition soap is hazelnut. February’s limited edition will be chocolate (for Valentine’s…

  • Overflow!!

    Overflow!!

    We’ve been saying that we are out of space in our soaproom for a year and a half.  Yet, we still managed to cram in more stuff.  Until today.  Yes, the soaproom officially cannot hold anything else.  As a result, we’ve had to overflow all the soap that Jim is making (and that still needs…

  • Jade’s Favorite Soap

    Jade’s Favorite Soap

    You may be aware that I did a video series where everybody (except me) shared which is their favorite goat milk soap.  The problem started when I let Jade be the last person to record her video.  Because I put the videos up on the Goat Milk Stuff website, I only wanted one video per…

  • Indigo’s Favorite Soap

    Indigo’s Favorite Soap

    We do a lot of videos around here.  Sometimes we tell the children what to say, sometimes we just give them a little bit of direction, and sometimes we let them talk and say whatever they want.   We filmed several of the “favorite soap” videos in a row.  Indigo filmed her video right after…

  • Liquid Goat Milk Soap

    Liquid Goat Milk Soap

    I know that everyone has been waiting quite a while for the liquid soap and we appreciate your patience. We finally have some liquid soap ready for you to enjoy! We have quite a bit of it available, but we won’t be making anymore until we are in the new soap room. We are expecting…

  • Ingredient Safety

    Ingredient Safety

    Have you ever wondered what causes all the foam in commercial products like bubble bath? It’s a chemical called sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) or a similar chemical called sodium laureth sulfate (SLES).  These two chemicals are used not just in bubble bath, but in a huge range of bath and body care products such as…