Calendula Baby Soap
This soap contains only our base ingredients: coconut oil, olive oil, and goat milk and is very, very gentle. About 20% of the olive oil was combined with dried calendula flowers, long known for their gentle properties, and let sit for a month. Then this enriched oil was added as a superfatting agent to the soap. This means the oil is poured into the soap after saponification (the chemical reaction that produces soap) is complete and the soap is beginning to thicken. Therefore, none of the oil’s beneficial properties were lost in the soap-making process and the finished product is that much gentler. While we did intend it primarily for a baby soap, it also makes a very good hand, face, and body soap for anyone with easily irritated skin.
In this soap:
- Organic Extra Virgin Cold-press Coconut Oil
- Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Fresh Goat Milk
- Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil infused with Organic Dried Calendula Blossoms
- Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) for Saponification
*Do please keep in mind that this soap will sting eyes and, while it isn’t toxic, does not taste at all good! It is best utilized on baby’s torso and limbs rather than the head and face.
As some of you may know from reading the "Meet the Goats" page, our matriach of the goat herd, Snow, has been living a life of leisure in her golden years. She has not been having kids for several years since she became very ill after her last kidding. Well, I mistakenly left the young male kids in with the herd a little too long last summer, and now Snow is the proud mother of twins! This morning we discovered the big black and white male kid who looks similar to a koala bear, and his petite gray and white sister. They are both healthy and strong and have nursed well. Since they were born on my brother Henry's birthday, we have named the male Henry in his honor. The female is Fiona because she looks like a Celtic maiden, white and fair. -January 8, 2011
