Raw, whole goat milk is a virtual storehouse of nutrients that enrich and pamper all skin types! Goat milk is rejuvenating, anti-inflammatory, and moisturizing. It contains over fifty nutrients including the vitamins A, B1, B2 (riboflavin), B6, B12, C, D, E, and K, niacin, zinc, and calcium, as well as minerals, amino acids, citric acid, unsaturated fatty acid, proteins, various enzymes and many other nutrients. Many of these components of goat milk play an important part in skin-care, working in our soap to gently clean your skin without stripping and drying it, moisturizing your skin, smoothing and plumping your skin, and soothing sensitive and allergenic skin conditions. It’s true; we think goat milk soap is THE BEST kind of soap we can use, and that’s why we use goat milk in our soap!

Mom watching the booth.

Nathaniel watching the booth. We were very close to the waters edge!

A customer buying soap.

People picking out their favorite designs and scents

Two little brothers smelling all the sample bars!

Our Booth from a little hill.

Looking out behind our booth into Alton Bay!

With all the flooding in Vermont from Hurricane Irene,  the normal 3 hour route took us nearly 5 hours.  But since then, more roads have opened and many more are due to open soon.  Our next show coming up is in Poultney, VT. Come visit us at the Fall craft Extravaganza!

~Nathaniel

Here are the three different types of designs and scents

Do you need favors for weddings?   Vermont gifts for family gatherings?  “Thank you” gift for house sitting?   If you need a gift to give, these eye catching soaps and designs are the perfect choice.    Check out our website for our complete line of products,  or give us a call at,  802-247-9249 to see if we can meet your needs!

We hope you have had a wonderful winter,

Nathaniel

It has been a very busy Christmas season for Garland Goat Soap of Vermont! We are all very grateful for the business that we have gotten and are enjoying the break that we have for the next couple of weeks.  The month of December was full of Christmas fairs where we sold a lot of our all~ natural goat milk soap, we especially enjoyed meeting new friends.

Our inventory is beginning to fill up again but that doesn’t mean that we stop making soap!  Right now their are 15 shelves of various kinds of soaps curing.

I have also been busy with our little herd of Alpine does!  Touche still is the sole producer of the goats milk that we put in our soap.  She is a very sweet goat and especially loves milking time.

Elli is also a very happy goat and enjoys jumping around in the snow with our two 7 month old kids!  We bred her this fall and she should have her kid(s) in mid April!

May and April are still the life of the herd. They are both very sweet and love it when I give them their grain and hay.   They especially enjoy playing in the snow and chasing each other around.

Thank you again for the business you have given us, we hope you enjoy your soap!  Have a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

Emily for all of us at Garland Goat Soap of Vermont

The Moore Family

We use pure beeswax in our All Natural Goat Milk Soap because it gives a solidness that prolongs the life of the bar.

Sodium hydroxide is used to trigger the saponification of the ingredients. We like to say that we simply put the right ingredients together and then let them make the soap!  Mom mixes the sodium hydroxide with distilled water and goat’s milk.  At the same time we melt and mix a special blend of oils and beeswax together.  We use olive oil, palm oil, vegetable oil, vitamin E oil, and coconut oils to insure that our soap is full of good things as well as pleasant to use.   Olive oil moisturizes while providing protection against the harsh climate your skin must face every day.   Vitamin E is an antioxidant and natural preservative; we use coconut oil to create firm bars that really give you a great lather.

Everything needs to be cooled before anything can be mixed together and this requires a lot of stirring!!

Here you see us mixing all of the ingredients together…..

While Mom is busy mixing the oils, wax and sodium hydroxide , Pamela is going to add the essential oil.  We add these all natural, scented oils at the end to ensure that everything has been mixed well before hand.

These are our unique soap molds They are responsible for the delightful shapes we are able to offer to our customers.  Our most popular designs are the dogs, goats and roosters!

The molds laying out on the table, ready to be filled……

Here, Nathan is carefully pouring the liquid soap into measuring cups so that we may then carefully pour it into the molds.  Sometimes, no matter how careful we are, we end up pouring too much soap into the molds and then – our molds overfloweth.

Look at how carefully Pamela and Mom are filling the molds!!  We are thankful for their steady hands.

After the molds are completely filled, we place them on a table in our ’soap room’.  We use freezer paper between the layers and then cover the whole lot of them with an old comforter.  The heavy blanket keeps the heat in while the soap begins the process of curing.

Emily is our appointed record keeper and she reported that we produced 371 bars of soap that day! What a lot of work, but we had a very good time and now our inventory is on its way to being restocked.  According to Nathan’s records, we are half way to being completely stocked.  We are looking forward to another soap making day in the near future.

We appreciate hearing from you. Good-bye for now,

The Moores

— We also wanted to mention our new scent, Orange.  It is now able to be ordered through the website.  Try a bar today!

May 5th, our very temperamental  dairy goat Touche, gave birth to triplets. They were born in our pasture in the early afternoon on a gorgeous day. Touche dropped her kids with ease and the assistance of my sister-in-law, Kathryn.  The first was colored like her half sister, Ellie. The second was shiny black with white spots on her ears and a pronounced overbite. The last kid was the biggest and mostly white with brown markings. We had to help them at first with nursing, but they seemed to catch on real quick!! They have all thrived in the past months, they love being in the pasture.

In fact, they love being in the pasture so much they were nearly impossible to contain while still very young. They never seemed to plan their escapes on purpose, but somehow they always managed to end up on the greener side of the fence. Straining their necks through the open boards around their pen to reach some lush looking weeds, they would innocently push right through the boards and end up in the pasture! They would climb up on the fence, looking at the sky above and -ooops!!- the slim boards would slip right out of place and they were in the pasture once again. We were never able to make the fence completely ‘kid-proof’, so we became quite used to hearing my little brothers remark, “Oh,the kids are out of the pen!” Someone would then walk out (rushing not being necessary since they were in the pasture and therefore content to stay put) and recapture the vagabond doelings.

Now, they are contained (in the pasture) within an electric fence that they dare not prove, unless of course, it’s off!

Touche continues to give milk for our all natural goat milk  soap. It is the only generous thing she does, for the rest of her days are spent bossing around Ellie. We love her dearly, even though her personality can be a bit interesting at times! We know that God put it in goats to have a very firm sense of order among themselves. Touche does an excellent job living up to her calling as Queen of the goats here at Little Valley Farm!

Ellie is enjoying the sun!

Until next time,

The Moores at Garland Goat Soap of Vermont

With Arielle helping Greg with his piano business, plus growing a baby, she found she was overwhelmed and asked us if we would consider taking over this business.  After prayerful consideration, we felt the Lord leading us to take on Garland Goat Soap.  We’ve changed the name to Garland Goat Soap of Vermont, LLC but have kept the same wonderful ingredients that make the soap wholesome and natural.  We will continue to use only essential oils and over time will include some of our own honey in the soap!

As I mixed up several batches of this Milk and Honey soap, I was considering the different ingredients I was adding and what they contributed to the soap. Honey lays down a clear, protective film that helps skin maintain moisture. It hydrates and soothes the skin and is thought to be slightly antiseptic and bacteriostatic. It does all of this without being greasy, even contributing astringint value. Propolis is antibacterial, reduces inflammation, and stimulates the immune system.

To quote one description: “Two natural treasures in one bar of soap help repair sores, fight acne, soothe chapping, and balance uneven or oily skin.

Bee products—honey, propolis, pollen and wax—meet goat milk to clean up the toughest skin problems you can muster.

Honey cleanses dirt and impurities while smoothing wrinkles by increasing your skin’s elasticity. Propolis—a mixture of the essential oils, pollen, and wax bees harvest from plants—nourishes dry, itchy skin. Pollen, rich in enzymes and vitamins, contains the complete family of amino acids. It promotes new skin cell growth while scrubbing away built-up dead cells without stripping the skin of its natural protection.

Milk & Honey’s beeswax base is the all-natural “carrier” for other ingredients that leaves your skin feeling soft and clean.

Raw goat milk is rich in enzymes beneficial to your skin, and five natural, skin-replenishing oils balance and moisturize. This abundance of revitalizing components is topped off with a touch of sweet orange essential oil for an agreeable, bright aroma.”

Our Milk and Honey Soap has proved to work great for our customers, as noted by what these customers had to say:

This is the best facial soap bar I have tried. I use it at night time to wash off the days dirt and make up (with no moisturizer afterward since I have somewhat oily skin), and by morning time my face is smooth and clean. I love how it lathers up, and the sweet smell makes is so pleasant to use. I have stopped using the expensive clinique and estee lauder products completely since this has worked out much better in every way. It does last a long time, too. I recommend it to friends whenever I get the chance.

This soap is great. I have problem skin and have never used a soap. Actually I’ve used the same cleanser on my skin for years and just didn’t like how my skin was looking lately (lifeless and dry). I tried this soap thinking it wouldn’t make much of a difference and WOW! I was able to stop using the medication on my skin that I had used for years. My skin looks great and glowing.

Try it out for yourself! To find it, click HERE.