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 […]
The younger children and I spent Sunday afternoon making candles for Mother’s Day. Indigo and Jade put the warning sticker on the bottom of the candles tins: While Hewitt stuck the wicks to the bottom of the tins: I did all the candle pouring (which is why there are no photos of that part). Fletcher and […]
Yep, our whole family was on the Today Show this summer! You know, the NBC show that airs every morning? (That is the something big that I hinted about in this post.) How cool is that? Mike Leonard came out to film on the 3rd of May, on a nice a hot day. Mike was supposed […]
In economics, there is a principle called “opportunity cost”. It basically means that when you choose to do something, you choose to not do something else. The opportunity cost is what you could have gotten if you had instead chosen the “something else”. There is an opportunity cost to producing a lot of lather in […]
Indigo wanted me to show everybody the amazing job she did swirling the patchouli soap that her Daddy made: Doesn’t it look beautiful? I don’t have a photo of her swirling it, because she was finished and gone by the time I got the camera out to the soap room. But, she’s really getting very […]
People often ask me about our castile soap. The first thing they ask is, “How do you pronounce it?” In English, it is pronounced, (cass – teel’). The second thing I’m asked is, “What is a castile soap?” Castile soap is made with just olive oil (as the oil portion). It is one of my […]
Many goat milk soapers make claims on the web that the pH of goat milk is closer to skin’s pH, therefore it is healthier for your skin than other soaps. While I do believe goat milk soap is better for your skin, using pH as a reason is not correct chemistry. Human skin produces a […]
I’ve always known how good drinking goat milk is for your body. I’ve also written about the benefits goat milk adds to your soap. But because nobody in our family suffered from eczema, initially I didn’t realize how beneficial our goat milk soap is for people with skin conditions such as eczema. But soon after […]
When I decided to start making a natural soap for our family to use, I knew right away that I would be making goat milk soap. Not only did I already have dairy goats and a supply of fresh goat milk, but I also knew how good goat milk is for the body. After I […]
We’ve been making our goat milk soap laundry soap for quite a while now and people are loving it. One of the questions I get asked a lot is, “What’s so special about the laundry soap?” Just one of the answers is that our laundry soap does not contain any optical brighteners. Since most people […]
It’s time to meet our goat milk soap of the month – evergreen! The evergreen goat milk soap is now a limited edition soap that comes out every Fall in time for the holiday season. If you don’t want to wait, we have evergreen soap logs and evergreen soap log pieces available.
It was a liquid soap kind of day. We scented and bottled several hundred bottles of liquid goat milk soap. I put all of them in 8 oz foamers, but I think I’m going to make the oatmeal milk & honey liquid goat milk soap available in the 20 oz foamer. Probably won’t happen til […]
Jim cut a batch of OMH luffas today. Because it’s his least favorite job, he saves them up so he can do a lot at once. He got 122 cut, so hopefully that will last for the holidays. If you’ve never used one, they’re surprisingly awesome. Plus they make wonderful Christmas presents because they contain our […]
We’re making so much goat milk laundry soap at a time that Jim now needs more than just Fletcher’s help. So he recruited Greyden. First, Jim mixes the laundry soap all together: Then Greyden starts bagging and weighing the small laundry soaps while Jim bags the large ones: Greyden is getting so big and helpful!
Emery keeps getting poison ivy on his feet. We don’t know how he keeps managing to do it, but he does. We’ve washed every pair of shoes the kid owns, and he still will get it periodically. So I’ve decided to make a poison ivy soap. Jewelweed is the best plant for fighting poison ivy. […]