Cleaning with Garland Goat Soap
By Moore Family | September 7, 2011
It was a lovely warm day here in Vermont, and perfect for cleaning some very valuable and necessary “things” for the business! So here is where we find Emily, the main care taker of the goats.
Emily scrubbing Ellie, our only goat giving milk at this time!
Cleaning the milk stand!
Emily is very faithful with keeping up with things like this! She loves caring for the goats and it is wonderful to have clean goats!
The soap works really well on animals! The oils and the other enriching ingredients in the soap make them smell wonderful and have smooth, shiny coats.
We hope you are having a wonderful week.
Nathaniel for the crew
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Kitchen/soap making area being torn out!!!!
By Moore Family | August 30, 2011
About seven weeks ago the big mess began!!
Here are a few pictures of the process.
what the kitchen used to look like
Taking apart one of cabinets
Dad just finishing getting the metal cabinets out!
The sanding crew! Nathaniel, Caleb, Brian and Kathryn.
Dad sanding the beautiful Maple floor we found under the linoleum!
Pamela washing dishes in the laundry room.
We had to make soap the other day! It took a little while to bring the soap stuff from the office all the way to the garage!
the oils cooling in the laundry room!
Making soap in the garage! That is the stove we use to make our meals, too.
Molds waiting to be filled in the breezeway!!
It has been a little challenging to make meals or soap lately, especially with the hot weather. Everyone is working hard to get cabinets made and much more. Dad is working on the lighting and some pluming! It sure is a hot job.
Have a wonderful week!
~Emily
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A Week at the Fair
By Moore Family | August 21, 2011
What a wonderful week we had at Addison County Fair and Field Days! We met some happy soap users who buy our soap at Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op and and Rutland Co-op. It was fun to meet them and hear how they love our soap. Sales were great and we look forward to supplying soap for new customers.
People enjoying the fair!
Emily manning the booth. The booth had to be open 12 hours a day so our family took shifts!
The Booth and all the products!
We also spent the day yesterday at Springfield’s 250th celebration. The townsfolk put a lot into planning the busy day and the weather turned out beautiful. We will be returning to Springfield, Vermont Columbus Day weekend for their Apple Fest and again in December for the Unicorn Fair.
Our autumn schedule is busy, so I will post our itinerary soon.
Until the next post, happy washing!
Linda
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Garland Goat Soap at Addison County Fair and Field Days!!
By Moore Family | August 10, 2011
For many months and weeks now, we have been planning to have a booth at the Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven Vermont! Well, the time has finally come and yesterday was our first day! We made many sales and met many people! It was a great start for the week and are now in the middle of our second day! Our booth runs from 10am to 10 pm and even though it is a long day, we take two to three shifts, depending on the availability of different family members! We would love to have you come and see us at the fair. We are located in the big red Paquette Building. 
We will be keeping you posted as the week progresses with more pictures and updates! Have a great week, and hopefully we can see and meet some of you!
Sincerely, the Moore family
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Lavender Essential Oil in Soap!
By Moore Family | July 14, 2011
Everyone knows that lavender essential oil has a lovely scent and is very soothing and calming. What you may not know, however, is that it also helps numerous ailments. Lavender essential oil can help relax tense nerves, calm anxiety, depression, and nervous exhaustion. A few drops of lavender essential oil on a pillow or cotton ball can bring relaxation to those who struggle with stress or sleeplessness. After a day of hard work, rub a few drops into your tired muscles to relax them.
Lavender essential oil is known to help with bacterial and viral infection. Upper respiratory infections are eased when the oil is put into a vaporizer or applied directly to the skin. It is one of the two essential oils that can be applied in this way. As a healing agent, lavender oil promotes rapid tissue growth. After getting a serious burn, one man put lavender oil on his hand. The pain went away almost immediately, while his skin healed quite rapidly.
Why is Lavender one of Garland Goat Soap’s most popular scents? It has proved itself over and over again with its advanced skin care properties as the perfect combination of our superior soap with the most versatile of all essential oils.
Treat yourself to some of our lavender goat’s milk soap today!
~Emily
Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.
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What are Essential Oils?
By Moore Family | July 5, 2011
I have done some study on “What Are Essential Oils” and have found it to be quite amazing! So that is why I am sharing this with you.
Essential oils are the concentrated essences of aromatic plants. They contain potent therapeutic properties and are frequently used in cosmetics, perfumes, and flavorings, and in aromatherapy. They are found in minute glands in one or more parts of aromatic plants including leaves, flowers, fruit, seeds, wood, resin, bark, or roots.
Aromatic oils have a long rich history and were highly valued in ancient cultures in the far and Middle East. The Egyptians used them to perfume their clothes and bodies, to preserve and flavor foods and drink, and also to heal.
Experiments were conducted by French professor Renee-Maurice Gatteffosse using essential oils on wounded soldiers during World War I. The soldiers with badly infected wounds were treated with essential oils, particularly lavender. Professor Gatteffosse’ work proved that essential oils are far better than chemical antiseptics in their ability to detoxify and speed up the elimination of infection.1
Even if essential oils are used over and over they do not lose their effectiveness. They are directly and indirectly therapeutic. Their scents stimulate the memory, alter moods and feelings and even influence hormonal responses.2 As they are absorbed into the skin they detoxify and cleanse causing healing. Essential oils are very concentrated so a little goes a long way.
Synthetic scents are often used as substitutes, but only the scent is reproduced. Essential oils have many active and effective ingredients as well as many functions that cannot be reproduced by synthetic substances. Therefore, Garland Goat Soap only uses pure essential oils making our soaps pure, exhilarating, and wonderful to use!
~Pamela
1The Complete Book of Herbs by Lesley Bremness p. 228
2 The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy by Salvatore Battaglia p.10
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May Haying Season!
By Moore Family | June 27, 2011
We hope you all are enjoying the beautiful early Summer weather as much as we are!
The beautiful scent of freshly made soap is in the air!! We are making lots of soap for the busy season coming up!
A few weeks ago our family helped my brother and sister~in~law do some haying! It was wonderful to smell that drying grass, although a few of us get quite filled up. The whole family including my four and six year old brothers were out in the field for most of the day. We did haying several years ago but I was too small to help so I enjoyed myself immensely. We were able to bring in a good crop and now have it stored away in the barns.
Everyone in the field
One of the many hay wagons that we filled!
We got our garden planted out a at the end of May which has cleaned out our sun porch of all the plants. I also have a flower garden with some perennials in it which have bloomed just beautifully this year! Just the other night I snapped a picture of some of my Sweet Williams. I just loved how they looked.
~Emily
Some of my Sweet William
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A Day At Shelburne Museum
By Moore Family | June 23, 2011
“The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary;” ~H.W. Longfellow
This describes the day Nathaniel, Mom, Pamela,and I, did a soap-making demonstration on opening day at Shelburne Museum just perfectly! We were hoping for a beautiful day but unfortunately it was windy and drizzled all day.
We set up on the porch of an old general store and waited for people to come by. We did see few people in the morning and were happy that several showed up for the demonstration in the afternoon. At 1:00 p.m., we started heating the oils on a Coleman stove. Nathaniel also started to mix up the Lye. People stopped by to see what we were doing and Mom explained the whole process of making our soap. Everything went well until we began to pour the soap into the molds…the wind decided to pick up!! OF ALL THINGS! The molds and soap went everywhere! Fortunately, there were enough people observing to help hold down the molds until we had them filled up. Everyone enjoyed watching how we made the soap and were extra happy for the small bar of soap that they walked away with!
The four of us were glad for the experience and would enjoy doing it again, only it will have to be inside.
Just finishing with setup
Our soap making table
We hope you all have a wonderful warm week!
~Emily for the rest
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AND THE WINNER IS………
By Moore Family | April 17, 2011
Thank you to all who participated in our Garland Goat Soap Kid Guess Contest! We hope you had as much fun guessing as we had reading your guesses! We are delighted to announce that Mr. Larry Bassett, is the winner! He correctly guessed that Ellie would have triplets, two bucks and one doe. Congratulations, Mr. Bassett!
"Ezra" just standing up.
Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther curiously looking at me
Esther sniffing the dog
Ellie had a quick and easy delivery this past Wednesday, April 13, and when we found her, she was licking the kids off. She is getting used to being milked and has settled down since she had them. The triplets are so cute, with their little pink noses and small cries. They enjoy jumping around and eating.
~Emily
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Kid Guessing Contest-2011
By Moore Family | April 2, 2011
It is kidding season here at Garland Goat Soap- one of our favorite times of the year! We love when all the kids (that’s the term for baby goats) are born. Have you ever enjoyed a baby goat? If not, you don’t know how cute they are! At every birth, we have a whole crowd of excited spectators for the wonderful event. Everyone wants to get a chance to hold and pet the kids. Though I have witnessed many goat deliveries, the whole miracle of birth never ceases to amaze me! The display of God’s incredible creation is truly shown forth at every birth!
Enjoying the spring sun.
Would you like to be part of the fun of this kidding season – and have an opportunity to win a FREE bar of Garland Goat Soap’s great goat milk soap?! Why not? Here’s how:
Garland Goat Soap Kid Guess Contest
“Ellie” is our goat that is due to kid this year. (For those of you unfamiliar with goats, it’s quite common for them to have a single kid, twins, or triplets. Sometimes they even have quadruplets!)
We want you to take a guess:
1.) How many kid(s) you think Ellie will have.
2.) How many buck(s) (male goat) and/or doe(s) Ellie will have.
If your guess is correct, or comes closest to being correct, you’ll win a free bar of our soap! If we have more than one correct guess, we’ll send out more than one free bar of soap!
So put on your thinking cap, take a guess, join the fun and email us at: garlandgoatsoap@gmail.com with your guesses! Please put “Kid Guess” in the subject line.
Or, simply leave a comment here on the blog with your guess. Please include your email address.
When Ellie kids (has her babies), we’ll let you know the winner(s) of our Garland Goat Soap Kid Guess Contest! Perhaps you’ll be the one to enjoy that free bar of soap!
We will also have some pictures of the kid(s) and Ellie!
~Emily
Ellie has only two weeks until she kids
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