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HANDCRAFTED GOAT MILK SOAPS | ||
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All of our soaps are handmade in small batches with WHOLE GOAT MILK hand-milked from our own herd. The liquid portion of our formula is all goat milk. No water is added. | ||
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FLAT RATE USPS priority shipping $7.00 any order We do not ship internationally. We ship to all U.S. addresses including FPO and APO. You do not need a paypal account to purchase from our online shop. We simply use paypal as our bank to process any credit card transactions. If you have any problems or questions, please email us! soap@parhamfarms.com |
 Wisteria Lane Smells just like the popular candle by the same name. Classic peony & feminine lily of the valley blend to create a powerful floral debut. $5.00 per 5oz bar |
 Butterfly Flower Bright floral notes with on a base of crisp greens, smells just like a butterfly flower bush. $5.00 per 5 ounce bar | |
 Wild Honeysuckle Enjoy a touch of spring, year round with our wild honeysuckle, a fresh, natural scent - not too strong $5.00 per 5oz bar |
 Rose Petal Shea First, we macerate and infuse olive oil for 16 weeks with our own organically grown rose petals, then we add shea butter to our regular soap recipe. The scent is soft with a hint of green, like a freshly cut rose. This is not a rose perfume scent, this is a fresh cut floral. $5.00 per 5 ounce bar | |
 Chamomile Dreams Soothing chamomile with a bit of a soft powder finish. $3.50 per 3.5oz bar |
 Lovely in Pink The softest powdery white musk, cashmere, with just a wisp of orchid and daffodil. Similar to the fragrance Lovely, without much floral on the top end. $5.00 per 5oz bar | |
 Cranberry Fig Unisex - The scent of tart cranberries combined with ripe figs. There are no vanilla or sugar notes, just fresh picked fruit with an underlying hint of green. $4.50 per 5 oz bar |
 Meadow Breeze back by popular demand unisex - that subtle fresh scent that wafts across a meadow -- a touch of dried sweet hay, clean air and sunshine $5.00 per 5oz bar | |
 Oatmeal Milk and Honey An all time favorite, warm toasted oats with sweet honey $5.00 per 5oz bar |
 Butterbeer Suds Sweet Creamy Butterscotch!! Straight from Hogsmeade, Not overdone, "like a less sickly butterscotch", just enough to make a Harry Potter fan proud. Many of these bars do have a void (small open space) that runs through the middle of them from the heat that developed internally, causing expansion while the soap was in the mold. They were cut to weigh over 5 oz each even with the hole in the middle. $5.00 per 5oz bar | |
 Sandalwood Vanilla Our most popular Unisex fragrance for 2017 - Perfectly blended, equal parts smooth- unsweetened vanilla with rich sandalwood. $5.00 per 5oz bar |
 Sweet Cedarwood Unisex - Sweet vanilla cream over subtle base of himalayan cedarwood. This blend smells more "sugary" than our sandalwood vanilla. The sweet cream takes the lead in this one with the cedarwood lingering in the back. $5.00 per 5oz bar | |
 Rosemary Orange A popular morning shower scent, made with rosemary and orange essential oils $4.50 per 4.5oz bar |
 Green Tea Soothing goat milk soap with the soft suble scent of freshly steeped, green-tea. $5.00 per 5+ oz bar | |
 Cracklin' Birch Everyone raves over this in person. This one will transport you down a winding country backroad. Fresh, clear, clean, country air, with the perfect blend of subtle citrus and clear floral notes, this one is as much a guy's scent as a lady's. $5.00 per 5oz bar |
 Spiced Cider Smells like the Original Claire Burke Apple Jack and Peel fragrance. A lovely autumn apple potpourri scent that is not too sweet or too heavy on the cinnamon. Fresh, Fall, Classic! $3.50 per 3.5 ounce bar | |
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 UNSCENTED Milk & Honey Bar though no scent was added, this bar smells ever so slightly of graham crackers $3.50 per 3.5 oz bar | ||
 Camo Guy Subtly scented with Green Irish Tweed, A combination of french green clay, charcoal and regular goat milk soap create a camo appearance in these bars. $4.50 per 5 oz bar While supplies last |
 Nautica for Men We are in no way affiliated with the fragrance company that makes Nautica. This is an excellent duplicate of that handsome scent. $5.00 per 5oz bar | |
 Dead Sea Salt Bars Fresh Sea Air These bars don't lather up much due to the addition of Dead Sea Salt, which many find soothing to various itchy skin conditions. We blend our goat milk soap together with Isreali sourced Dead Sea Salt to create these subtly scented bars. $5.00 per 5-6 oz bar |
 Dead Sea Salt Bars Peppermint Cooler These bars don't lather up much due to the addition of Dead Sea Salt, which many find soothing to various itchy skin conditions. We blend our goat milk soap together with Isreali sourced Dead Sea Salt and peppermint essential oil. $5.00 per 5-6 oz bar | |
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BEER SOAPS (gluten-free)These bars are made with a blend of 50% beer and 50% goat milk.Beer/Milk soap is packed with natural glycerin and is reputed to sooth, moisturize, fight acne, and repair hair. Beer/Milk soap, it seems, is for guys and gals alike. Hops, an ingredient in beer, contains skin softening amino acids which can soothe irritated and inflamed skin. The brewers yeast in beer acts as an antibacterial agent, great for combating acne. Beer and milk also contain vitamin B and other essential vitamins which moisturize the skin and hair. Beer increases the frothy lather of a soap, making beer/milk soaps ideal as shaving soaps. For those of you who use soap in place of regular shampoo, you are in luck. Beer/Milk soap lathers well and is a glycerin rich healthy alternative for your hair. The lactic acids in the milk help clear the scalp of dead skin cells. The B vitamins repair and restore the look of hair. The amino acids and small oil molecules help coat and repair your hair while repairing your skin. The oils and minerals in beer/milk soap help add shine and moisture to your hair. |
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 The Man Soap - a moisturizing BEER soap made with gluten-free IPA and goat milk Truly the scent of a handsome man. Clean and subtle notes of bergamot and grapefruit, with white floral and woody violet, grounded by the deeply sensual scent of oakmoss and sandalwood. $5.00 per 5 oz bar |
 Signature Dark Made with gluten-free oat beer and goat milk. The delectable scent of toasty rich butterscotch, orange zest, with almonds, creamy vanilla and a hint of cocoa. This one is loved by men and women alike and has become our Signature Fragrance for local sales. $5.00 per 5 oz bar |
SCENTED WITH ONLY PURE ESSENTIAL OILSonly pure, all natural essential oils are used to scent these bars. |
 Lavender Mint Goat Milk Soap made with lavender, spearmint and peppermint essential oils $3.50 per 3.5 oz bar |
 Peppermint Cream Goat Milk Soap Scented only with pure natural Peppermint essential Oil, and tinted with natural mica $4.50 per 5 ounce bar |
 Peppermint Tea Tree Essential Oil Goat Milk Soap made with a 50/50 blend of peppermint and tea tree essential oils, a favorite for hot-summer days. $5.50 per 5 oz bar |
 Lavender Essential Oil Goat Milk Soap Scented only with pure natural Bulgarian Lavender essential Oil, and tinted with natural mica $5.00 per 4.5 ounce bar |
 Breathe Easy Eucalyptus and Peppermint Blend $5.00 per 4.5 ounce bar | |
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FROZEN MILK AVAILABLE FOR SOAPMAKING Frozen goat milk is available in 16oz bags for those who want to try their own hand at soapmaking. Bags are $1.00 each and must be picked up at the farm. We do not share our exact recipe. Email soap at parhamfarms.com or message us on Facebook for more information. OUR SOAPS ARE MADE WITH: COCONUT OIL, sustainably-farmed and fair trade PALM OIL, OLIVE OIL, CASTOR OIL, and occasionally special ingredients like shea butter, cocoa butter, avocado oil, aloe vera, green tea, vegetable puree, dead sea salt, clay, or gluten-free beer are added to some bars and these products will appear in each product listing and on the label. Our oils are always food grade and of organic quality whenever available (most are). If you have concerns about an allergy, please feel free to contact us. We will NEVER use soybean oil, wheat germ oil corn oil, peanut oil, canola oil or hydrogenated oils. ABOUT LYE: Sodium or Potassium hydroxide (lye) is required in the chemical reaction called saponification, the process of making soap. You can't convert fatty acids to soap without the use of a lye. Detergent bars may not require lye, but they aren't natural soaps, they are synthetic detergents. You can purchase pre-made soap base, but if it is soap, lye was used to make it. There simply isn't another alternative. Lye may or may not appear on a product label because there are options for labeling soap in the United States. First, soap may be labeled as "soap" and no ingredient list is required. Secondly, you can list the ingredients used to make the soap (what went in), or you can list the resulting end products after saponification (what's left after the chemical reaction has occurred). For example: Coconut Oil, Palm Oil Olive oil, Water and Sodium Hydroxide might go in the pot to make a soap, but after the chemical reaction of those ingredients balanced to consume all of the lye and convert all of the fatty acid to soap, you'd have Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Palmate, Sodium Olivate and water - no lye, just the fully saponified fats. The important issue is whether there is any lye remaining in the soap after the reaction between fatty acids and the alkali is complete. Our own recipe is carefully calculated so that there is never the possibility of lye remaining, but rather we have an excess of fatty acids (butterfat and other oils that are not converted to soap). Our ingredients for every batch are weighed using a digital scale to insure precision and consistency from batch to batch. ABOUT GLUTEN: Many people, including my own daughter can not afford to risk gluten exposure. She has celiac disease but doesn't only react digestively. Even topical gluten exposure makes her symptomatic. Our beer soap is now made with gluten-free beer eliminating any cross-contamination issues. ABOUT GLYCERIN: Handcrafted soaps are rich in the naturally occuring glycerin that is formed during saponification (the process of natural soap-making). We don't choose to separate or clarify the glycerin in our soap using alcohol but we do encourage the formation of glycerin by insulating our molds to take advantage of the naturally exothermic reaction. ABOUT FRAGRANCE: We use either pure essential oils or bath and body certified safe fragrance oils to scent our bars. We have segregated the 100% pure essential oil soaps into a section of their own below. ABOUT THERAPEUTIC CLAIMS: We will not make claims about our products treating or curing any disease. The FDA simply does not allow that because to do such would classify our products as drugs and and subject them to all of the same applications, testing and clinical trials (at our cost) as any new drug. You may see other sites list their soap and lotions as being good for various skin conditions or even stiff joints despite the fact that these claims are not in compliance with FDA regulations. Natural soaps and lotions may or may not be easier tolerated by those with problem skin, scents and essential oils may contribute to reactions and sensitivity. Our only recommendation to people with troubled skin is to ask your dermatologist or physician if a natural goat milk product might be helpful. WHY OUR BARS AREN'T WHITE: You may notice that we don't have bright white bars of soap, and that's due to the fact that we don't use water, only milk for the liquid portion of our bars and when milk is heated in the process of soapmaking, it changes from a white to a beige color. Our oils are also in part responsible as we don't choose to use highly refined oils. The organic olive oil, palm and castor oils that we use are of a golden hue. Only the organic coconut oil is pure white. When natural colorants, clay or mineral mica is added to soap batter, the golden hues combine with the natural colorants to create subtle tones of color. Also, anytime a fragrance containing natural vanillin is used, the soap browns naturally. We choose not to use color stabilizers to prevent the natural golden and brown tones from appearing. WHY ARE TWO EQUALLY PRICED BARS SOMETIMES DIFFERENT SHAPES OR SIZES? We cut and sell our soaps based on weight. Sometimes when pouring thicker soap batters, small air pockets, or voids can develop inside the bar. Though our customers may never notice, we want everyone to get what they paid for -- so we cut our soap based on the weight of the bars as they come out of the mold, not for size or shape. ABOUT BAR WEIGHT: Each 20 bar batch initially weighs over 150 ounces when the slab is first released for cutting, but as they dry/harden, they become about 33% lighter by weight. Hard bars, dry bars last longer, even if they are a lighter weight. Natural soap is full of glycerin, and will naturally seek to attract moisture, so it is important to use a soap dish that allows drainage and to place the bar in an area where there is good air-flow to prolong the life of the bars when not in use. ABOUT RESPONBSIBILITY and COMMON SENSE: We believe that each of us is responsible for the earth around us. How we select and use products has a big impact on the resources of the earth both in our time and for future generations. We are dedicated to using products and packaging of minimal environmental impact. We purchase products with minimal packaging, we choose biodegradeable and recyclable packaging where possible and we reuse everything that we can. We ship our products either wrapped in paper or with recycled bubble packs, and we encourage our customers to recycle these items as well. Our lotion products are packaged in plastic bottles. We did originally try glass, but the glass bottles were heavy, expensive and breakable and out customers stated that they would prefer the safety, and the savings of plastic bottles. We do have customers who have paid shipping to return plastic bottles that we have sterilized and refilled, but this effort also leaves a substantial carbon footprint due to the energy required to return and sterilize the bottles for reuse. Usually our customers use 'local to them' recycling options. We don't test our products on animals. We test our products on ourselves. We never put our products in our eyes or our animals eyes to determine a level of irritation. Our products are not supposed to go in the eyes or on mucous membranes, so common sense tells us not to put it there. Natural soap is not tear free. Questions? Email us soap@parhamfarms.com or message us on our facebook page - Parham Farms. You'll know it's us because the profile photo is our Burgundy Seal with a goat head in the middle.  |
