Been thinking a lot about this next year and what changes and new products I need to focus on.   My primary focus of this business is offering handmade soap but I also like to round this out with other natural bath and body care products that customers ask me specifically for.  Feedback is very important and I do listen.  It may take a bit but I store all the bits and pieces of information that I receive from my wonderful customers in the back of my mind until I’m ready to draw on it.  So..with that said, I want to add several goat milk soaps to the goat milk product line.  All based upon natural fragrances.   Got two specifically in mind that I tested last season.  A mojito blend using a killer key lime essential oil and a complex citrus scent using a blend of lemongrass, litsea cubea, key lime, folded orange and a touch of bay and patchouli.   I’m also really partial to spearmint and patchouli.  Simple but delicious!   Two spa type handmade soaps will debut in the Spring.  A dead sea mud and massage soap with tapioca pearls.  I think these will do well for our wholesale soap customers.  I’m finally moving closer too to adding liquid soap to the product line.   The soap formula is done.  What’s been holding me back are the labels.  I had the disk sent here with the graphic art work but it cracked and is not useable so I have to order another disk.  Bummer!  It’s been a bit of a headache but it will get done!   I’ve also decided to bring back the massage oil I used to make due to the many requests I’ve had.    The plan is for a muscle/pain blend, a sleep blend and another that is fragrance free.   And..if I can at all make it happen, I’d really like a goat milk and shea butter body cream to pair with the lotion.  Whew!  I’ll be busy.

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Over the winter I loss my beautiful mare Sasha in a tragic accident.   It was heartbreaking for me and my husband in his infinite wisdom brought home a alpine goat named Emily to keep our little shetland pony Snuffy company not to mention give me something else to focus on.   Now all my customers who know me first hand and have always looked at the goat milk soaps in my handmade soap collection and asked the question “Do you have your own goats?”,  know that I never wanted goats.  No way, no how!  Absolutely not!   Yes, I do make quite a bit of goat milk soap in addition to my shea butter handmade soap bars but goats are mischievous and gregarious creatures and I didn’t want the hassle.   Boy has time changed my tune!  Little Miss Emily dropped a baby one evening and my husband knew that anything that has fur on it and especially a baby fur animal just warms my heart.   I wondered why he kept saying “You know, Emily sure is getting round.”  He knew that goat was pregnant when he brought her home!  I am now officially and happily attached to my little goat herd.   They are so much fun and a delight to interact with.  Snuffy is the big boss now and baby loves to jump on him and run circles around him.  He has a lot of patience with her and everyone has settled right in.  No, I still don’t have any intention of milking goats to make handmade bar soap with.  I will still buy my goat milk in bulk.  There isn’t enough hours in the day.  After all, we are a “artisan” handmade soap company which basically means I do everything. LOL!

Emily & Baby

Our Baby a bit bigger.  She grows really, really fast!

And..this is one of my favorites.   Before I took this photo the baby was jumping on Snuffy.  She got tired and layed down near him for a snooze!

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