We mentioned in a recent post Is Goat Milk Good in Soap, the goodness of goat milk in natural soap bars. If you’re like me, though, you’ll be curious to find out more specifically just how the different vitamins and nutrients work for your skin! After all, it’s nice to know, for instance, that goat milk has vitamin A in it…but what does that do for your skin? To begin with, it may encourage youthful skin!

Vitamin A acts as an antioxidant to neutralize harmful elements in our skin, helping to prevent wrinkles, resist infection and keep your skin youthful! It also slows down the effects of aging, as manifested in your skin, and helps prevent both dryness and brown spots on your skin.

Vitamin B12, also found in goat milk, is essential for a variety of synthetic processes in the cells, including skin cells, and an absence of it can be detrimental for skin health.

Vitamin E is another of the vitamins contained in goat milk that protects skin cells from free radical damage (in other words, keeps them from aging).

Consider another component of goat milk, zinc. For some of you, zinc may bring to mind a type of metal, but in reality, zinc is an essential mineral that is a component of more than thirty enzymes. Zinc contributes to the reconstruction of collagen fibers, resulting in firmer, smoother skin (collagen fibers are responsible for your skin’s strength and elasticity, and its degradation leads to wrinkles that accompany aging). Zinc also encourages moisture retention and assists in maintaining your skin’s elasticity. Is the value of goat milk as a wonderful, natural skin-care product beginning to make more sense? There’s more yet…we’ll continue to look at more of the components of goat milk in another post!