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Occasionally at our sales events, someone will pick up a bar of our soap, look at the label, and then look curiously at me and ask, “Is your soap lye free?” Or something to that effect. The short answer is yes. But, since the long answer would include something about the necessity of using lye…
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As we learned in Why Goat Milk Soap?, real soap is a mixture of oil and water or milk. But, how does that mixture of oil and water (or goat milk) actually clean? Mixing oil and water (or goat milk) must be forced using a chemical reaction called “saponification”, which literally means “the action of…
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Welcome to our relaunch of Goatherd’s Wife, a blog of Angelwood Soap Company! I get this question at sales events all the time: Why goat milk soap? It’s a great question, really. Many of us typically run to the store and buy a bar of “soap” off the shelf and don’t really know or think…