Bringing in the Hay
Many of you remember Farmer Frazier, our 80+ year old neighbor who supplies us with our hay from his hay field. Normally, he just brings us one or two bales at a time, but this year, he decided to...
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Dayton Television Interview
My brother, Adam, is in the Air Force. A few years ago we were so excited when he finally got stationed in the midwest, about four hours from us. We took the opportunity to start spending Thanksgiving...
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Now I Understand!
Warning: Santa spoiler alert! Not for all young eyes!! Not only is it the holiday season, which is our busiest time of year. But we recently got news that we are going to be in the January edition of...
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What A Charmer
We’ve spent the weekend selling soap at the Stewart Christmas Show here in Louisville. The children all take shifts working at the booth selling soap. If you’ve never seen my children in action, I...
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The Birth of Goat Milk Stuff
I’m often asked why I started a small business in a bad economy. So here’s the story… I had been praying for a family business for years. Actually, I had been praying for a family business for the...
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Small Biz Dream
There are lots of contests out there on the web that we could enter. Some of them are silly. Some of them are fun. Some I’d like to enter. Some I don’t. Regardless of the desire, we don’t usually have...
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Lather Up!
In economics, there is a principle called “opportunity cost”. It basically means that when you choose to do something, you choose to not do something else. The opportunity cost is what you could have...
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Guess What?!?!?
We were on the Today Show this summer! You know, the NBC show that airs every morning? (That is the something big that I hinted about in this post.) Yeah! Mike Leonard came out to film on the 3rd of...
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Something New
I have two exciting things to announce. First… I am about to launch a new version of my blog. Currently, I have two blogs – Goat Milk Soapers and The Goat Milk Stuff Blog These two blogs are going to...
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In 1997, I began listening on the radio to Larry Burkett speak about living debt free. Knowing that we were starting our family (Brett was a baby) and that I wanted to stay at home, a lot of what he...
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Candlemaking
The younger children and I spent Sunday afternoon making candles for Mother’s Day. Indigo and Jade put the warning sticker on the bottom of the candles tins: While Hewitt stuck the wicks to the bottom...
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No More Detergents
If you’ve listened or watched any of my interviews, you’ve probably heard the story about how I started making soap. Since Brett was a newborn, I had always used the same baby wash on her. It was the...
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Ingredient Safety
Have you ever wondered what causes all the foam in commercial products like bubble bath? It’s a chemical called sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) or a similar chemical called sodium laureth sulfate (SLES)....
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Liquid Goat Milk Soap
I know that everyone has been waiting quite a while for the liquid soap and we appreciate your patience. We finally have some liquid soap ready for you to enjoy! We have quite a bit of it available,...
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Refer A Friend Contest – Now Closed
This contest is now closed! It’s time for another fun Goat Milk Stuff contest. This one is very easy to enter! You just need to share with us a person who referred you to Goat Milk Stuff (if you...
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Indigo’s Favorite Soap
We do a lot of videos around here. Sometimes we tell the children what to say, sometimes we just give them a little bit of direction, and sometimes we let them talk and say whatever they want. We...
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Jade’s Favorite Soap
You may be aware that I did a video series where everybody (except me) shared which is their favorite goat milk soap. The problem started when I let Jade be the last person to record her video....
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Fox 59 Interview
We have so much fun sharing our story and our stuff with people. It’s one of the greatest things in the world to be able to support your family doing something that you truly love. Last week, we were...
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Overflow!!
We’ve been saying that we are out of space in our soaproom for a year and a half. Yet, we still managed to cram in more stuff. Until today. Yes, the soaproom officially cannot hold anything else....
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Soap Room Construction
Today we went to see the progress on our new soap room! The kids had so much fun playing on the huge pile of gravel and Jim and I were really happy to see the structure coming together. It’s starting...
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