What's Really In Our Goat's Milk Soap

There’s a reason we still make our soap the old way, using nothing but what our own animals and a handful of trusted ingredients give us. Every bar starts long before it ever touches water, in the pasture, with the animals we raise ourselves, and it ends up in your hands only after weeks of careful, slow work. We wanted to share exactly what’s in these bars and why each ingredient earns its place. Our dairy goat's and Kunekune pigs are the heart of our soap.

Kunekune pigs are a heritage, pasture-raised breed known for producing exceptionally high-quality fat, and when we render that fat into lard, we get something people are only just rediscovering. Lard has a lipid profile and pH that sits remarkably close to human skin, which is part of why it absorbs so easily instead of sitting on top. It’s rich in oleic acid, the same fatty acid that makes olive oil so nourishing, along with palmitic acid, which helps strengthen the skin’s barrier and reduce moisture loss. Because our pigs spend their days out on pasture soaking up real sunlight, their fat also carries meaningfully more vitamin D than fat from pigs raised indoors (commercial pork), along with vitamin E and vitamin A. Kunekune lard has even been compared to emu oil, since emu oil is prized for how deeply it penetrates skin. Lard doesn’t have the same tiny particle size, but it shares a lot of the same nourishing qualities, and it’s been used for exactly this purpose, healing dry skin, chapped lips, cracked heels, for generations longer than emu oil has been part of the conversation. We’re simply carrying that tradition forward with the animals we raise ourselves.

Goat’s milk is the other cornerstone. We hand-milk our own herd for it, and it carries vitamins A, B1, B6, B12, C, D, and E along with minerals, antioxidants, fatty acids, and enzymes, all things your skin can actually use. Its pH is close to human skin as well, which is part of why it’s so gentle even on sensitive or reactive skin, and why it doesn’t fight your skin’s natural barrier the way many detergent-based soaps do.

Beyond the milk and the lard, we round out our bars with organic olive oil, shea butter, coconut oil, almond oil, and castor oil, each chosen for what it does rather than how it looks on a label, along with natural clays for color instead of synthetic dyes. Nothing in these bars is there to pad an ingredient list. Everything is there because it does real work for your skin.

That’s what’s actually in every bar you see, raised, rendered, and made right here on the farm.