Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Good News! You asked for it and we listened, finally;) We've taken several of our custom fragrances and added them to our regular line of fragrances. So now, most all our fragrances are available in all three of our wonderfully moisturizing body products without the extra custom fragrance charge. Our new fragrance line-up looks like this:

Goat Milk Hand & Body Cream:
  • Almond Delight
  • Cedar & Saffron
  • Fresh Grapefruit (New)
  • Hidden Orchid
  • Japanese Plum Blossom
  • Lavender Vanilla
  • Lavender Amber (New)
  • Lilac & Lilies (New)
  • Passionfruit & Papaya
  • Pineapple Cream
  • Sugared Lemon
  • White Gardenia
  • English Lavender & Mint (New)
  • Unscented
Goat Milk Hand Body Lotion
  • Almond Delight (New) This almond replaces Almond Biscotti which has been discontinued due to low sales but it's still available as a custom fragrance.
  • Cedar & Saffron
  • Fresh Grapefruit
  • Hidden Orchid (New)
  • Japanese Plum Blossom (New)
  • Lavender Vanilla (New)
  • Lavender Amber
  • Lilac & Lilies
  • Passionfruit & Papaya (New)
  • Pineapple Cream (New)
  • Sugared Lemon
  • White Gardenia (New)
  • English Lavender & Mint
  • Unscented
Body Silk Conditioning Skin Spray
  • Almond Delight (New)
  • Cedar & Saffron (New)
  • Fresh Grapefruit
  • Hidden Orchid
  • Japanese Plum Blossom (New)
  • Lavender Vanilla (New)
  • Lavender Amber
  • Lilac & Lilies (New)
  • Passionfruit & Papaya (New)
  • Pineapple Cream (New)
  • Sugared Lemon (New)
  • White Gardenia (New)
  • English Lavender & Mint (New)
  • Unscented
Sadly, Honey Patch, Baby Powder & Orange and Yellow Rose have been retired due to low sales but are still available in our custom fragrances.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

New Addition to the Herd!





Meet Abraham



Last Sunday found us near Grants Pass, Oregon, at Fir Meadows Farm, picking up my daughter's long awaited new herd sire, "Abraham." Abraham is a pure bred Lamancha from excellent dairy lines. He's only two weeks old in this picture. Yep, he's a big one.


Since we have no goats yet born on our farm we also picked up a companion to keep Abraham company. Meet "Boomer," an active, cuddly, pure bred Toggenburg wether aka neutered male.





Here's Cat, the owner of Fir Meadow's Farm surrounded by some of her beautiful and friendly dairy does.



Back home in our barn, here's Abraham getting snuggled after his morning bottle



Not be left out, Boomer soon crawled up onto Justine's lap too. Fortunately there's still room, for now.



Abraham and Boomer getting use to our rowdy German Shepherds.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Making Lotion










We made lotion today and here are some pictures of the process.


Here is the "water phase" containing the distilled water, goat milk, aloe vera, and silk being heated to a minimum of 176 degrees and held for a minimum of 20 minutes. The heating process is used to kill potential bacteria and mold spores.



We use a canning kettle as our makeshift double broiler when heating the water phase.


Here's the "Oil Phase" and it contains the Abyssinian oil, Fractionated Coconut oil, Rice Bran oil and the emulsifying waxes. The oil phase is heated so that the wax melts. In this picture the mixture has not yet been heated and so you can still see the wax.


The oil and wax blend has been heated, the emulsifying wax is melted and is now added to the water/milk phase.


Using an emulsion blender we mix the oil and water phase together.



We chill the mixture in a sink of cold water, blending periodically.






While the water and oil mixture chills in the sink we measure out the silicones.



The water and oils are now cool enough to add the silicones.



Using a a hand drill and mixer attachment we mix the silicones in.



The mixture is thickened and once cooled to room temp it's ready to be fragranced and bottled.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New Soaps!


A few new soaps!


Amazon Teakwood
P
rimary notes of Brazilian Teakwood, fresh cut cedar, with subtle notes of
patchouli, sandalwood and moss makes this an exotic, woodsy, unique fragrance.




English Lavender & Mint
A bright, clean, refreshing blend of two favorites.

This first batch is definitely more mint than lavender. Next batch I'll up the lavender to better represent it in the blend




Star Anise & Lemon
Actually this is our "Lemon and Black Licorice" with a new name and look.



Eucalyptus & Rosemary
The blending of eucalyptus and rosemary essential oils creates this invigorating, wake-me-up soap. Especially important now that we are all trying to adjust to the current time.....(Yawn)....... change;)
This soap replaces our "Eucalyptus and Thyme" which tended to be too strong and medicinal for many people.

Vanilla Bean
Back for a limited time, classic Vanilla Bean
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010



Normally, by this time year, my daughter and I have baby goats to care for and does to milk, but this year we decided to take a longer break between the busy holiday season and the tiring kidding season .

Since we don't have new baby goat pics to share I thought it might be fun to look back at some of our past kids to see what they look like then and now.

February 2008

Briar Rose at a couple days of age

February 2010

Briar Rose at 2 years of age


May 2008
Rhapsody at a couple weeks of age
February 2010

Rhapsody at almost two years of age


April 2008

Goat kids



February 2010
Same group of goats as above but now two years of age