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A Sudsy Day!
By Moore family | July 21, 2010
We couldn’t put it off any longer. Even with the stifling heat and humidity we have been living with these past couple of weeks, our sales have been generous enough that our inventory was telling us that we had to make soap and we had to do it soon! Early Tuesday we gathered in the kitchen with our soap making supplies and began.
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!
Topics: Characteristics of Soap, Goat Milk Soap, Luxurious Goat Milk Soap, Natural Soap, News, Oils, Soap Equipment, Sodium Hydroxide | 1 Comment »
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July 21st, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Very nice blog post, Moores! You are doing an excellent job producing such wonderful goat milk soap! And the author of the blog post created a very interesting, well worded post.