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The Spirit Goat Makes Natural Goat’s Milk Soaps, Lotions, and More

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Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s especially true in the case of Becky Yeager and her goat’s milk skincare company, The Spirit Goat.

The Spirit Goat got its start 16 years ago “by accident,” as Yeager recalls.

Her daughters, like many others, had bad skin allergies caused by store-bought soap. This gave Yeager an idea: what if she started making her own soap that could be safe to use for anyone with skin allergies?

She started out making soaps first but then moved on to other skincare products, such as lotions, balms, hair products, baby products, and more.

The Spirit Goat’s products were originally made in Yaeger’s home kitchen, but as the business grew, the shop had to grow as well. Today, The Spirit Goat has its own storefront and everything sold by them is made from scratch in their own shop.

One of The Spirit Goat’s most popular products is their original goat’s milk lotion. This product is made with a unique blend of goat’s milk, shea butter, and skin-nourishing oils to moisturize your skin without leaving a greasy feeling that other lotions can leave. These lotions are free from any harmful chemicals that can irritate sensitive skin. It’s great for babies, the elderly, or anyone with sensitive skin!

Aside from their original goat’s milk lotion, The Spirit Goat also carries a variety of specialty lotions for all kinds of needs and skin types.

They have a variety of healing lotions for itchy skin, like their calamine lotion and bug juice lotion, as well as daily moisturizers that will revitalize damaged and broken skin, such as their face creams, eye cream, foot cream, and therapy cream.

And guys, don’t think they’ve forgotten about you, too. The Spirit Goat has an amazing men’s shaving cream that soothes the skin while providing an excellent glide for your razors. It’s also made with 25% organic ingredients to ensure that you have a safe shave, every time.

They also have soaps, hand balms, beard oils, and mustache wax that feature manly, woodsy scents that any hardworking guy can enjoy. Try their Sandalwood or Bay Rum scented soaps today to get that unique, rugged, outdoorsy scent.

Let’s not forget about all of the wonderful goat’s milk soaps that you can find at The Spirit Goat; after all, that’s where they began their soapmaking journey so many years ago.

They have scents to please every customer. Whether it’s a fruity and refreshing scent, like Bear Lake Raspberries or Awesome Apple, or an earthy scent like Great Basin Desert or Lonesome Cowboy, The Spirit Goat has a soap fragrance for everyone.

If you have customers that are looking for rejuvenating, skin healing soaps, creams, and lotions, then they can find these products at The Spirit Goat, too.

They have lots of facial products like Acne Spot Treatments, Sugar Lip Scrubs, Hydrating Face Masks, and Anti-Aging Serums.

The products use organic and natural ingredients to combat the signs of aging, such as wrinkles on the skin and under the eyes. They are also great for daily moisturizing, to keep skin healthy and young looking.

When you need natural, goat’s milk products that are going to revitalize and moisturize sensitive skin, there’s no better place to find these products than at The Spirit Goat.

My Soaps, LLC Makes All Natural Soaps That Can Clear Up Even The Toughest Skin Problems

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When it comes to soap, you should never substitute quality for cost-effectiveness. After all, your skin is an organ and should be taken care of and protected just like your heart, lungs, and brain.

My Soaps, LLC, a Johnstown, Ohio company, was started by Charles Kramer, a former Columbus, Ohio firefighter after retiring from a 27-year career in the city’s Fire Department.

Charles and his wife, Pat, started My Soaps, LLC after Pat brought home a bar of homemade soap for Charles to use in the shower. He was instantly hooked by the simplicity and healthy feeling that the soap gave his skin.

After doing a little experimenting in his home, Charles and Pat came up with a great recipe that would get your skin clean, but without all of the harmful chemicals and additives that many commercial soap brands include in their products.

Charles put the soaps in his wife’s gift shop, and in a matter of only a month, the soaps sold completely out! Charles and Pat knew they had a hit product on their hands.

My Soaps, LLC makes only natural soaps and lotions, and Charles loves to experiment and add the oils, spices, and colorants together to make new bars of soap.

One of My Soaps’ most popular products is their Himalayan Salt Soap. Himalayan salt is a natural skin healer that controls many skin conditions such as dry or oily skin, eczema, acne, and more. It has excellent exfoliating properties, and it is perfect for renewing skin to its natural softness and health.

It can also help combat nasty things like fungal skin infections, bacteria, and viruses.

The Himalayan Salt Soap bars are made of saponified oils of natural ingredients, such as olives, coconut, castor with shea butter, himalayan salt, and rose clay (an enhancement to the salt’s natural pink coloring).

Have you ever been out camping, or hiking a trail, and accidentally found yourself in the middle of a poison ivy patch? Poison ivy is no joke, and it can cause great discomfort if it isn’t treated immediately. Luckily, My Soaps makes a Poison Ivy Soap that is perfect for curing that insufferable itch!

The Poison Ivy Soap is guaranteed to stop the itching on contact, thanks to the lye, pig tallow, castor oil, vitamin E and jewelweed. Jewelweed is a plant that is known as a natural treatment for poison ivy, oak, or sumac rashes.

With the addition of the vitamin E in the soap, you can be sure that your skin will be rejuvenated and moisturized while you cure your rash.

And if you or your customers have skin problems, such as eczema or psoriasis, you’ll want to check out The Problem Skin soap. This soap is made from olive, coconut, almond, avocado and flax seed oils, along with aloe butter and neem oil. It has a heavy lather, and is great for treating acne, rosacea, or any dry skin problem.

For soap that is made with love and care, from makers who want the same quality for their customers as the products that they use, you have to try My Soaps, LLC!

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Wild Mountain Soap Company

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Looking for something a little more rugged and outdoorsy for your daily bathing routine? Wild Mountain Soap Company of West Virginia has the solution.

Wild Mountain Soap Company was started by the husband-and-wife team of Phillip and Mary Peelish.

They got their start making handmade soap in their home, but soon expanded to a brick-and-mortar retail and online business where they sell their handmade soaps, along with sugar and salt scrubs, muscle rub, bug repellant, and more!

For a scent of something more rugged and manly, you have to check out their Rugged Man soap scent line. This line of soaps features all of the pure, all-natural ingredients that you’ve come to expect from Wild Mountain, but with a more mountainous and masculine emphasis.

Try some of their masculine scents, like Hillbilly Hippy, Dragon’s Blood, Cedar and Saffron, Sandalwood and Vanilla, and more!

Wild Mountain Soap Company‘s Rugged Man collection is just what the outdoorsy customer that you know is looking for!

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Totally Awesome Soap

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Weekly Pick

If your customers are looking for an all-natural soap that’s free from harmful chemicals and additives, and even comes packaged in environmentally friendly packaging, then look no further than Totally Awesome Soap.

As the name suggests, this company provides some truly awesome soap products, that are both good for your body and your conscience.

Most of the products made by Totally Awesome Soap contain coconut oil, palm oil, safflower oil, glycerin, purified water, sodium hydroxide, sorbitol, sorbitan oleate, oat or soybean protein, and titanium oxide. They also only use Bisphenol-A (BPA) free plastics in their packaging.

Their soaps come in many different fun shapes, styles, and scents. Whatever you’re looking for, Totally Awesome Soap is guaranteed to have it!

Give your customers the option of buying a soap that they’ll be talking about for months, and let them buy products made by Totally Awesome Soap!

Enriching Lives Through Garden Voyage Botanicals

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Vendor Spotlight

Finding a solution to dry, uncomfortable skin can be a difficult task. It is often filled with trial and error. Many soaps claim to provide amazing benefits, but do they actually deliver on said promises? Garden Voyage Botanicals continues to provide outstanding products that exceed expectations time and time again.

Garden Voyage was founded on one simple principle: helping people enjoy the “voyage” through their garden. Based in Newark, Delaware, the team at Garden Voyage makes sure to manufacture high-quality soaps that will satisfy every customer. These lightly fragranced soaps are vegetable-based and leave the skin feeling clean and rehydrated. Their soap sets are designed to be affordable and make great gifts throughout the year. They can be used in your fundraising projects, home parties, and as corporate gifts.

Birdbath Series

Garden Voyage prides itself on vegetable-based soaps. If you’re unfamiliar with vegetable-based soaps, you will be happy to note that none of these soaps contain sodium tallowate. Sodium tallowate is commonly found in stores selling mass-produced soaps. This chemical has been proven to lead to eczema in some individuals. Shower safely and clear-minded with vegetable-based soaps made by Garden Voyage.

On top of using phenomenal ingredients, Garden Voyage adds in fresh smells from essential oils. Their most popular set features three bars to choose from. It is called the Birdbath Series. These American-made soaps are unique in many ways. They use certified palm oil and a generous amount of shea butter. Each is preservative-free and triple milled to last longer. This approach produces an exceptional soap with a creamy lather that cleanses, softens and soothes. So no need to worry about dry, flaky skin after a shower.

Noel Holiday Soap - Evergreen

Pure essential oils ensure the peppermint and lavender bars provide moments of aromatherapy throughout your busy week. The Gardener’s soap features cranberry seeds and walnut shell powder to ensure cleaning up is almost as enjoyable as your time in the garden!

Look no further than Garden Voyage Botanicals for awesome soaps!

Chicory Farm Soap Focused On Making Natural, Nourishing Products

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Vendor Spotlight

Sometimes the goals you’ve set for your future often transform into something all-together different.

That’s what happened with Sara Turnbull and her husband, Steve, whose idea for a goal milk farm quickly changed into much more than a dairy farm. Chicory Farm Soap

Chicory Farm Soap came about around 2011, during Sara and Steve’s last semester of college studying Sustainable Agriculture. They had plans to sell raw goat’s milk and goat cheese in their home state of New York but soon began dabbling in soap making as a side project. This side project eventually turned into their full-time project, and a bath and body care company was formed!

Chicory Farm Soap commits to making products that are naturally sourced and sustainable products, straight from the farm to customers’ hands. They believe sustainability involves three things: environmental health, personal health, and economic health.

By preaching and practicing these three tenets of sustainability, Chicory Farm Soap proves themselves as unmatched in their commitment to sustainable business practices.

But back to the bar soap! Chicory Farm Soap makes the sweet, aromatic smells of their bar soaps from, of course, goat’s milk, but also from natural smells derived from essential oils.

Anise Goat Milk Soap

Some of their most popular scents are Grapefruit & Lemongrass, which smells like bright pink lemons, Thai kitchens, and fruity grass; Sweet Orange, which smells like pure Florida orange juice and sugared orange slice candy; Lavender, Lemon & Clary Sage, which smells like lavender lemonade, and rich flowers with a heady lemon; and the classic Lavender scent, which smells like French fields, soothing herbal pillows, and real lavender.

These aren’t all the scents that they have to offer, however. They also have scents like Geranium & Grapefruit; Grapefruit, Rosemary & Lavender; Orange & Cinnamon; Cedar & Fir; Mint; Eucalyptus; Tea Tree; Patchouli; Anise; Lavender Rosemary; and Oatmeal!

These bar soaps are all beautifully packaged together with an attractive casing and tied together with twine.

If you’re not about that bar soap life, thought, they also have a brand new liquid goat milk soap. It has the ease of a traditional liquid soap but it’s also a natural, castile soap. This is different than most detergent-based liquid soaps that often dominate the hand soap market.

Liquid Goat Milk Soap

These liquid goat milk soap products offer the same scents as their bar soap counterparts, but they also have an unscented variety of liquid soap for those who might be sensitive to certain smells.

These liquid soap dispensers also feature attractive packaging that ties the whole aesthetic of the product together and gives it a very natural, organic look.

Sugar scrubs and hand salves are also available for healing dry, cracked skin caused by dry weather and hard work in the garden.

Chicory Farm Soap doesn’t make just any old soap; they make natural goats milk soap that’s perfect for customers looking to cut out harsh chemicals and additives from their bath and body care regimen!

Jento Soaps Handcrafts Pure and Natural Bath Products

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Vendor Spotlight

Finding the perfect combination of personal care products can be tricky. You want to smell good, but also be environmentally responsible and clean! The creator of Jento Soaps’ journey started with a book and progressed into a love for herbs and all things natural. Growing herbs in the backyard supplied her soap making passion.

Jento Soaps is an all-natural, handcrafted soap company. With over 20 years of experience in herbs and soaps, Jento is full of knowledge and understanding of what goes into all-natural soaps. Each soap batch is made to order, making each bar a unique product. As more and more consumers drift toward all-natural, chemical free options for their body, Jento’s experience and attention to detail will put them as a front-runner in your store or boutique.

The voyage to the perfect soap wasn’t as clear as it seemed. Jennie of Jento’s started cooking soaps in the kitchen, but soon everything began to taste like soap. A new kitchen studio was set up to perfect the craft. Jennie first made soaps with a glycerin base, but that didn’t provide the natural soap she desired. Now, Jento’s soaps are cold pressed and are offered in a variety of scents, including those made with pure essential oils. These soaps are made with all vegan products and oils such as coconut, palm, olive, rice bran and canola. Jento prides themselves on not using animal products of any kind.

Jento’s handcrafted scents range from tropical to herbs. Caribbean coconut, cucumber melon, vanilla, and sandalwood are a few of the tropical smells, while lavender, patchouli, peppermint, and rosemary are offered for more natural smells.

Jento not only offers soaps, but a variety of body creams, powders, healing salves, and even shampoo and conditioner!

Extras include hand crocheted wash cloths, soap bags, and soap saver bags. Jento also has an option for gift baskets which offer a variety of their products!

Specialty soaps for children are also available with soaps molded like cars, ducks and dinosaurs!

For the full rundown on Jento Soaps, visit them online, and check out their all-natural, wonderfully scented soaps!

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Hooker Bath Soap

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Weekly Pick

Getting clean at the end of a long work day is a great way to relax, but have you ever taken a bath with a hooker?

Get your mind out of the gutter, I’m talking about Hooker Bath Soap! This unique bar soap is guaranteed to be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

Hooker Bath Reduxx

Hooker Bath Soap makes soap that makes you feel dirty while getting clean! They’re made from all-natural ingredients, right here in the U.S. Check out their scandalous collection of scents, including The Dirty Weekend, a 6.4-ounce African violet and cocoa butter scented bar, stamped with naughty handcuffs, and enriched with shea butter.

Or, check out the Hooker Bath Reduxx, scented with passion flower and olive oil, and featuring a lipstick stamp on the bar. It’s enriched with shea butter, cocoa butter, and virgin olive oil to nourish dry skin, and ensure it stays healthy and smooth!

The Original Hooker

If nothing else satisfies you, then you can’t go wrong with The Original Hooker. This fresh milk and shea butter luxury soap bar combines natural ingredients into a nourishing cleaner and is packaged in a box covered in handcuffs, lingerie, and other naughty images.

Hooker Bath Soap wants to make sure you rinse, be naughty, and repeat every night. Check out their products today!

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Prairie Sage Soap

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This week’s pick is a wonderful soap making company called Prairie Sage Soap. Owner Trisha creates her soap art using a mild olive oil blend, combined with alluring scents, to make wonderful pieces of soap art!

Because each piece is handmade, and stirred together in a pot before pouring into a mold — no two pieces of soap are the same. Not only do your customers get a great, fresh bar of soap, but they also get a limited edition piece of artwork!

Dragon's Blood Soap

Trisha stamps her bars of soap with unique designs that carve right into the soap’s surface, so each product and scent is easily identifiable.

If your customers want great soap bars, stock your shelves with Prairie Sage Soap!

Fresh From The Valley

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If there’s one thing customer’s love, it’s a perfectly roasted coffee bean. And isn’t finding what customer’s love and providing it to them the basic job description of a small business owner? Still, finding the perfect bean isn’t as easy as it sounds. But don’t worry, we’ve already done the work for you.

It’s time to check out Baird Rock Farm!

The Secret is in The Roast

When it comes to roasting coffee beans, quality must always trump quantity. At least that’s how owner Rebecca Baird sees it. She takes the necessary time to slow roast every batch to bring out that full-bodied caramel flavor.

Many roasters will crank the oven over 500 degrees and have a batch of roasted beans in fifteen minutes, but Rebecca feels that this quick roasting method has a negative impact on flavor. She instead lets her beans roast at a low temperature for a full half hour, and then incrementally increases the temperature over time until she has reached the desired level of roast (light, medium, dark or espresso).

The process takes longer, but the difference in flavor is significant.

And even better, each order is roasted when you make it, not before. This ensures fresh beans with optimal flavor and aroma.

Flavors Abound

So what kinds of flavors are available? Plenty, and each is carefully roasted to perfection. Not to mention that most of them are available in whatever roast level you prefer.

Try the mouth-pleasing Cinnamon and Hazelnut, the perfect Coconut Creme or the incomparable Organic Bali Blue Moon which contains woody, smokey, earthy, chocolate and cherry notes. The options are varied and they are all amazing!

Beyond Coffee

But this company doesn’t just provide coffee. Are your customers looking for bar soap with the fresh scent of raspberry and peach? How about pro-vitamin B lotion with shea butter, cocoa butter and argon oil? You’ll find all of these and so much more when you shop their beauty lines and DIY beauty accessories.

And they use the same standards of quality with their beauty lines as they do with their coffee. Rebecca said,

“My greatest concern is how the product works for the customer.”

If you are looking to carry amazing coffee or wonderful beauty products, head over to Baird Rock Farm today!