Here's in northwest Oregon we are having a day made for a duck! To prove it I've included a picture of our lone duck "Arwen" enjoying today's rainy weather. Arwin is a dwarf breed of duck known as an East Indie and at nearly 10 years old she is the last of our waterfowl. She woke me early this morning when I heard her quacking happily in her "pond" in our driveway.

I've tried many, many coconut scents and had trouble finding one that "sticks" in my goat milk soap. Finally, I found one that passes with flying colors. This is a creamy, soft, slightly sweetened coconut fragrance. Enjoy!

On these damp, chilly mornings I often see the goats standing like statues absorbing the warmth from the sun. I can't blame them.

candle Melts

Candle melts where art thou? Well, (big disappointed sigh) I have the new packaging (see pic above) in stock and sitting on the shelves in my storage room just waiting, hoping, to be filled with fragranced wax. Unfortunately, a couple rained out markets this fall along with higher than expected Christmas show expenses left us without the funds to purchase the rest of the supplies needed to make these. So I apologize for not having these ready for sale especially since we've been advertising these on our web store and on the front page no less! I will continue to work hard at getting these back in stock with yummy new fragrances.

Coloring "Hunter's Moon" soap

I was making our best selling Hunter's Moon soap tonight and I took this picture to show how I color our soaps. Using cosmetic grade colorants (color that is safe to be applied to the skin) I custom mix my colors for each soap I make. For example, as shown in the picture, Hunter's Moon is colored with 4 custom mixed colors using a mix of 5 different mica and pigment colorants. You can see the recipe card for my Hunter's Moon soap in this picture. Each soap has it's own recipe card with the exact color combination I designed for that specific scent.

First blog and Christmas soaps

Welcome to our blog!
Here's where Curt and I can share what's happening around the soap shop ( aka kitchen) and
goat barn.

First Christmas soaps of the season were made yesterday. Below is pictured a tray of our best selling Cranberry Orange scented soap. The kitchen smelled wonderful as I was making this soap!

Another holiday edition is Christmas Valley, a fragrance I introduced last season. It became an instant hit. With notes of Siberian Fir and sugared Spruce this is definately not your typical Christmas pine scent. The color this season is different than
last season's but the scent remains the same.