A homemade goat milk soap bar is a wonderful, handcrafted artisan experience! Meet and connect with our small milk goat herd of Nubian and Oberhasli goats. Our dairy goats are so sweet and fun. They love scratches on their heads and shoulders. We will start our class with a tour of our 8 acre urban farmstead where you will meet the goats, pigs and horses that call our farm home. We will explain a bit about care, feed and milking goats. Goat milk fact: goat milk is the only milk naturally homogen
ized and digestible by all mammals, hence the term nanny goat. We will be making a cold process soap with goat milk, coconut oil, olive oil, lard and lye. Safety first! Lye can be dangerous. We provide chemical resistant goggles and long cuff gloves. Please wear long sleeves and pants and closed shoes. We will weigh ingredients, melt fats and oils, prepare milk and lye mixture and learn about tracing and saponification. The soap mixture will be put into molds to set (soap is hard and ready to be unmolded in 24 hours and ready to use in 4 - 6 weeks). You will be leaving with aged bar of goat milk soap ready to be used on your skin and hair. We love our goats and our farm made goat milk soap and we look forward to sharing with you.
Other things to note
We will be handling lye.
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