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De-Cluttering The Soap Shop

Posted in In The Soap Shop, tagged Goat Milk Soap, soy candles on October 2, 2009| 7 Comments »

Whoa...don't order more boxes!

Please do not tell the U.S. Postal Service…oh, oh…I am broadcasting this on the Internet, too late! Snicker.

The packaging area of my shop was becoming way too cluttered. It had reached the proportions of not knowing what types of boxes I had on hand. The priority mail boxes have now been sorted. Way too many on hand is the conclusion I drew! But now I can package orders very well again. The old storage system was no longer staying organized.

But wait…

More boxes???

I found more boxes. Flat rate priority boxes. See what I mean? The US Postage Service might be putting me on hold. The boxes are free, and I will eventually use them, but something tells me I have enough.

It feels good to have the shipping area organized again! I can ship without wading and sorting through oodles of crates, boxes and packages.

On to prettier things…

Goat Milk Soap Curing

I had not taken one of these pictures in a while…one of the curing racks, smelling and looking great. I see rose, patchouli blend, sandalwood blend, honeysuckle, honey oatmeal, and cedarwood blend.

And still to come…

Soy Votives and Wax Tarts

I am preparing sets of soy votive and wax tarts, soon to be placed on the website. I will definitely make an announcement here when the sets are ready.

So…that was my day, I made soap, fed the goats, and then I came back and organized the shop. It felt fantastic to find new space!

Have a wonderful day!

”Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” –Thomas A. Edison

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Annie’s Goat Milk Soap Sampler

Posted in Products, tagged Goat Milk Soap, goat milk soap sampler, holiday gifts, soap gift set on October 1, 2009| 7 Comments »

Annie's Goat Milk Soap Sampler

Clients have said they like a variety…well, here it is, the Annie’s Goat Hill Soap Sampler!

The sampler contains 24 ounces of goat milk soap. Each sample bar is wrapped with a fabric scrap, tied with ribbon, raffia, or a strip of matching fabric. Rustic country style!

The samples are assorted (example: honeysuckle, sweet pea, honey oatmeal, rose, lemongrass poppyseed, cherries and berries, lavender, ocean breeze, plumeria). Each bar is labeled with the soap type.

The Annie’s Goat Milk Soap Sampler is priced at $15.00 (plus shipping). It can be ordered via the website, or contact me if you do not wish to use a credit card.

Per your request, I will include a gift enclosure card, include holiday tissue paper and/or ribbon, and drop ship the gift to a recipient.

Let me know if you have any questions! Enjoy!

Email: anniesgoathill@gmail.com

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Product Monday – Yuzu Goat Milk Soap

Posted in Products, tagged Goat Milk Soap, yuzu on September 28, 2009| 5 Comments »

Yuzu Goat Milk Soap

The name for this goat milk soap in my online store is Love Yuzu…aptly named…I love the scent!

Love Yuzu is a fragranced soap. Oh…how I so desire to scent this soap with pure yuzu essential oil. Alas…I cannot. Why? I would be looking at a 104% increase in cost, compared to yuzu fragrance oil. Big gulp!

What is yuzu? It is an ornamental fruit, similar to a cross between a mandarin and a lemon. Yuzu is used in Asian cooking as well as bath products.

From the scent of the yuzu fragrance oil, I pick up on the fruit aroma, but with a slight floral undertone, perhaps vanilla as well.

Love Yuzu is a good soap for combination skin. It will not particularly dry out mature skin, and it is not overly moisturizing for oily skin.

When purchasing products from Annie’s Goat Hill do not be shy about asking for a particular sample. If you have no idea what Yuzu smells like, or any other goat milk soap that I offer, or if you want to know how the soap will work with your skin, when placing an order ask for a sample. If I can provide a sample, I will slice a small piece off for you. You can ask for a sample via email: anniesgoathill@gmail.com, or by completing the special instructions field during the check out process.

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Autumn Colors…Thoughts of Soap

Posted in All In A Day's Time, tagged autumn colors, calendula soap, Goat Milk Soap on September 25, 2009| 9 Comments »

Autumn 2009 001 I walked down to the apple tree today. The big tree is fully loaded. I need to get busy and make something of the fruit. The tree produces tart and crisp apples. Good for cooking! I am thinking…put the diet aside and make a delicious pie!!! MMM…that’s the ticket, ma’am!!! Autumn 2009 002

Still have some tomatoes to pick…these might be our last…the color is amazing!

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I have always been very fond of the flowers that love fall temperatures, such as zinnias and marigolds. I love to stagger zinnias by height. Oh…and I am considering some marigold petals (Calendula) goat milk soap. So healthy!

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The mums are beautiful as well.

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And last, but not least, for those of you better with plant names than I (apparently) are, what are these called? They bloom beautifully in the fall. They have grown into a huge plant, planted here when the Amish owned our home. I still get surprises from their plantings, by the way! Like the Lady Slipper’s that popped up this year!

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I wish I could include all of these beautiful bounties in soap!

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Product Monday – Cinnamon Rose Goat Milk Soap

Posted in Products, tagged Goat Milk Soap, rhassoul clay on September 21, 2009| 9 Comments »

Cinnamon Rose Goat Milk Soap

The scent of this soap is so difficult to explain! It is a warm scent, soft, masculine, and feminine enough for a women. I plan to make a matching candle or wax tart. It would definitely add some ambience to a home in the fall or winter.

Cinnamon and rose essential oils are both great for stress. Perhaps that is why I find the scent of this soap to be relaxing.

As with many of my soaps, I included rhassoul clay in this one. Rhassoul clay can reduce dryness, flakiness, and helps to improve skin texture. I love the color that rhassoul clay throws, a creamy tan in many of the soaps.

I posted the photo above to show the crazy color this soap takes on when first poured into the mold. It actually looks a bit flourescent green/yellow, then within minutes it goes to a dark golden color.

This is a photo of a cured bar of cinnamon rose goat milk soap:

Cinnamon Rose Goat Milk Soap

If you want to know more about any particular soap, or product, or if you have one in mind for a Product Monday blog post, I would love to talk about it!

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Product Monday – Lavender Peppermint Goat Milk Soap

Posted in Products, tagged Goat Milk Soap, Lavender, peppermint on September 14, 2009| 8 Comments »

Lavender Peppermint Goat Milk Soap

I enjoy making lavender peppermint goat milk soap! Why? I love the scent and I love the color.

My lavender peppermint goat milk soap is all natural. It contains lavender essential oil, peppermint essential oil, and kaolin rose clay. I love to add clay for color (rose, tan, green), and clay adds clarifying complexion care, silkiness and lathering ability to the soap.

Lavender is said to be calming. Peppermint is said to be energizing, stimulating, and cooling.

I love this soap when I am especially tired, or follwing a stressful day! That never happens in life, right?!

Enjoy!

Lavender Peppermint Goat Milk Soap

Reminder: Always be aware of allergies and other health conditions (such as pregnancy) when using any product. Peppermint essential oil should not be used during the first trimester of pregnancy…always consult with your doctor!

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Dairy Goats Involved In Goat Milk Soap

Posted in Goat Care (and General Farm), tagged Dairy, Goat Milk Soap, Goats on September 9, 2009| 15 Comments »

Cammille - Nubian Dairy Goat

This is Cammille, one of my nubian dairy goats. Her milk plays a big part in the goat milk soap that is made on my farm.

Cammille is a smart doe. As with most of my dairy goats, Cammille arrives at the milk room door twice a day, following the same pattern. This season the order is Iris, Bonnie, Cammille, and Carmella. Goats love patterns, in fact, some become rather upset when a normal routine is not followed. They also know their own names. They have individual personalities. Cammille, for example, will not allow the milk inflations to be placed on her teats without first having access to the grain in her dish. With Cammille, everything has to be pre-planned, in perfect order, before she arrives on the stand. If not, a person had better hurry! She has a gentle nature, she does not kick, she more or less shifts from hoof to hoof, dancing, and the impatience quickens when food is not at her lips!

Athena - Snubian Dairy Goat

Athena is a young dairy doe. She has not “freshened,” meaning, she has not given birth and gone “into milk” yet. Athena is a 2nd generation snubian (cross between a saanan and a nubian). I love snubian dairy goats. They produce a nice volume of milk, and they retain the wonderful rich fat-laden nubian qualities in the milk they produce.

Snubians are generally very laid back goats, easy to lead and train to the milk stand. Athena does not fall short of those abilities. Goats love to nibble with their lips (no teeth involved). Athena has a habit of nibbling with her teeth, and it certainly can hurt! I am trying to break her of that wonderful practice! She loves to follow behind, and ouch, nibble!!!

Have you ever seen a goat bury their head in a huge pile of hay to find just the one morsel they were searching for? They cannot see through the hay, but they can smell, and amazingly their lips can feel better than most any other animal! Try to hold a young bottle-fed goat kid. Try it without a bottle in your hand. What you will get are nibbles. Little nibbles to your neck, chin, earlobes, and they love to target the nose!

Goats…amazing animals.

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Product Ingredient Recap – Shea Butter

Posted in Products, Skin and Hair Care, tagged Goat Milk Lotion, Goat Milk Soap, hair care, Product Ingredients, Shea Butter, Skin Care on September 2, 2009| 9 Comments »

Bing! I opened my newest package of shea butter and instantly felt as if I needed sunglasses. It was as deep yellow as it could be! Nope, there is nothing wrong with the shea butter. It is completely natural. Shea butter varies in color from cream to yellow.

As a reminder, due to natural variances in shea butter, my goat milk lotion ranges from a pale butter color to nearly pure white. The scent of the shea butter also varies in strength. The scent of shea butter in a lotion dissipates within minutes of application to the skin.

Shea butter is an excellent skin softener! A small dab of shea butter applied to the ends of your hair after shampooing works better than an expensive bottle of conditioner. Shea butter is also great for sore or ragged cuticles. And, my family and I have used shea butter to heal burns and scars!

For more shea butter information, here is my original shea butter article. And here is my article regarding product storage. Shea butter and other natural ingredients require room temperature storage. DO NOT leave your lotions, creams, or other natural products in a very hot environment. The car is NOT a good place for storage!

FYI…whipped shea butter samples will soon be available. The cooler fall temps will allow me to ship without the fear of a melt-down. Who wants a melt-down???!!! Not I!

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My Interest In Soap Began Here

Posted in In The Soap Shop, tagged Goat Milk Soap, Soap Story on September 1, 2009| 16 Comments »

The Conner House

This is the exact place where I fell in love with soap. The Conner House, located on the Conner Prairie Farm, in Fishers, Indiana.

I was 7 years old, on a grade school field trip. I was mesmerized by the house, the farm, the outbuildings where hand dipped candles and other items were made, including the smokehouse and blacksmith shop. I especially loved the large hearths in the house that held big black kettles. And, the imperfect glass panes in the house windows were beautiful! Before my group left the farm (and it was sad for me to walk away), we visited the farm store, where my souvinier money was carefully spent on a primitive hand formed ball of soap. The soap balls were displayed in a metal wash tub. The type of tub people would take a bath in, or perhaps people would hand wash their laundry in. From that moment forward, I started collecting soap.

A collection of soap as a child? Yes! Moving forward in time, visions of me at 16 years old, still buying bars of soap here and there. It might have been Avon soap, tar soap, cucumber soap, oatmeal soap, it did not matter. It was soap, and each bar was unique!

Conner Prairie, based on the pictorial I just looked at, is quite the tourist stop now. It is not as quaint as it was when I was in the 2nd grade! I remember a garden, a house, and a few outbuildings. From what I can see, their amenities now include a modern museum, and even a Facebook page. I will ignore all of that and stick with my memories! 44 years later, Conner Prairie is embedded in my being.

I am glad I stuck with soap, and that something so beautiful inspired me. I have always wanted to step back into the pioneer days. I am not sure I want to live there permanently, but the fascination is definitely a part of who I am. I suppose that is also why I am so dead set on making soap the old fashioned way, with lye, and with having to wait 4-6 weeks before the bars are cured. And I am so dead set on testing the bars myself to make sure they are soothing to the skin, enjoyable. My soap either passes my expectations, or it doesn’t get sold. It means a lot to me to provide quality products! And those products come from a very long love for soap (and visions of the past), and I am still very much inspired!

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Product Monday – Cedarwood Blend Goat Milk Soap

Posted in Products, tagged Goat Milk Soap on August 31, 2009| 2 Comments »

Goat Milk Soap (Cedarwood Bottom Left)

Today’s Product Monday spotlight – Cedarwood Blend goat milk soap.

Cedarwood Blend is a wonderful masculine blend of cedarwood, sandalwood, patchouli and rose.

I use the term masculine cautiously when I describe this soap because I am obviously far from masculine, yet I love this particular fragrance!

Cedarwood essential oil is used to treat respiratory ailments, oily skin, dandruff, dermatitis, and is used in general tonics.

No colorants are included in this soap. It has a wholesome creamy appearance.

The soap lathers well, with great glycerin qualities (which helps to retain the skin’s natural moisture), making it suitable for combination skin types.

This soap averages 4.3-4.7 ounces, at 4.25 a bar. As always, can be found on my website, in the goat milk soap store.

No bones about it, I love this soap!

If you have any questions about this product, or any of my products, I am more than happy to answer your questions here, or in a one-on-one email, anniesgoathill@gmail.com .

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