Goats Milk Shampoo, with Argan Oil & Tallow, Lard, Honey & Duck Egg Yolks - Moisturizing Goat Milk Soap Shampoo Bar, for Dry Skin or Sensitive Skin

NOTE:  This is a best seller for me so I often am temporarily sold out a particular option, but rarely an entire scent - my inventory does not allow me to assign separate numbers for the different bar styles of the different scents, just one number for all bars, so please add a note to your order if you do NOT want a substitute - of the same scent - if I'm sold out of the style or exact size you requested (i.e. you order a Lavender goat, but I only have those in squares right now).

This luxurious bar soap contains moisturizing olive, avocado and almond oils, and lots of castor oil which is great for hair, as well as local lard and tallow from pastured, non-GMO-fed pigs and grass-fed grass-finished cows, both hand-rendered here at Solace Farm, to give the shampoo stability and firmness. I also use my hand-milked goats milk and my free-range duck egg yolks for even more moisturizing.  I add a bit of argan oil and our own raw honey right at the end, for extra moisturizing.

This bar doubles as a spectacular facial cleanser, in addition to being an amazingly conditioning shampoo, definitely the most moisturizing soap I've ever made.  In fact, while I can't make any claims myself, I can say that I have multiple friends and customers who have had impressive results using this soap on eczema-prone skin as well as several positive reviews referencing dermatitis, often finding this soap to be better than what the dermatologist recommended.

I have recently tweaked my recipe, to be even better (if that's possible), adding our local grass-fed and finished beef tallow, which gives the bar more hardness, which will make it last longer.  I still recommend storing it out of direct water, and even out of high humidity areas like the shower, to extend the life of the bar.  Really good, moisturizing soap has tons of glycerin, which pulls water out of the air - wonderful when it's on our skin, but frustrating when it's on a soap dish!  The more air circulation, and the drier the air, the better!

If you would rather not have the tallow (or would like all-tallow with no lard!), please contact me for a custom batch, I am always happy to make whatever you want in 9-bar or more batches.

Available in a variety of scents which all use only all-natural essential oils:

WINTER SPECIAL: Lemon Lavender Frankincense - made with sheep tallow and chicken egg yolks (rather than beef tallow and duck egg yolks), this is otherwise the same recipe of shampoo bar.  In winter, our ducks stop laying, so for this one batch I used local Mennonite chicken yolks instead, and I was running low on beef tallow so I substituted our pasture-raised, grass-fed sheep tallow for the beef!  This scent may not be back until the ducks stop laying again, so if you're a fan of lemon, stock up now!

• Lavender - just pure Lavender essential oil, a classic, spicy and herbal scent.
• Lavender, Anise & Patchouli - uni-sex, dark, sweet & spicy - the Patchouli is not strong, but easily detectable when you know it's there, and the Anise adds a sweet spicy note.
• Tea Tree & Mint - Invigorating and zingy, Peppermint oil is said to stimulate the hair follicles, potentially helping with hair growth and Tea Tree is renowned for it's skin benefits.
• Patchouli Rose - the dark earthy scent of Patchouli blended with the rose-scented lemongrass-type Palmarosa essential oil, for a unique, surprisingly uni-sex option.
• Rosemary Citrus - Herbal Rosemary with Grapefruit, Orange, & Lime essential oils - bright and juicy!
• Cedar Bergamot - Woody Cedar with Orange & Bergamot EO, the Cedar is the strongest in the blend with the warm spicy citrus to mellow it out a bit.  
• Unscented - no added fragrance or essential oil whatsoever.  This does have a natural scent of course, depending on your personal sense of smell it may be odorless, or have some degree of "soap" smell, but there is nothing added to either fragrance it or mask a naturally-occurring scent.
• All-Tallow - this is made with beef tallow in place of the lard, for anyone avoiding lard - it does have all the other plant-based oils in it as well, just no lard.  At this time I am only keeping this stocked in Unscented, but I'm happy to make a scented version, just get in touch about a custom order.

New - Vanilla Fig rebatched bars.  These are all the odds and ends of bar scraps, melted down and repoured with a new yummy fragrance (please note, this is the only scent here that is not an essential oil) added.  The Vanilla Fig does turn this bar a medium brown from the vanilla content, and these hot process bars have a rustic look with some visual bits and pieces and swirls, unlike my cold process smooth molded bars, but they are poured in the same square bar molds.  I hate wasting anything, and over several months I can accumulate dozens of end-of-pour half-bars of shampoo, way more than our family needs for "house use" purposes, so this is a great way to help me keep my wastage low!  These are available in only a plain square bar because of the nature of hot process soap.

Shampoo bars are available in either a plain square bar, a square molded bar with adorable goats, or a square molded bar with a Tree of Life - availability can vary, check the drop-down box for current selections.  Molded bars are either 3.5-4 oz, or 4-5 oz (hand-poured bars naturally have some variability) and the plain squares average 4.5 oz, and are either hand-wrapped in brown paper (plain square bar) or packaged in a square brown kraft paper box with a round window.

Why use a shampoo bar?  Partly to avoid all those disturbing ingredients in commercial shampoo! Then wouldn’t any nice, handmade soap work?  Well, I’ve tried it, with my own goat milk soap, and it was not what I wanted!  Hair, and even more importantly our scalp, needs ultra-moisturizing treatment, and this bar shampoo is specially made to do that.  
Hair gets oily because we wash off all our natural oils, prompting the scalp to make more. But that makes our hair oily, so we wash it again, further stripping our scalp of natural protective oils... And because we’re stripping everything off our hair - and scalp - we need a conditioner to make it soft and smooth and healthy (everything the natural oils were trying to do, incidentally). Then, since we used a heavy conditioner, our hair is weighed-down and needs washing...
Or, we can both clean and condition with a natural soap that gets out dirt and oils but doesn’t strip our hair, and simultaneously conditions it - and our scalp - with the naturally-occurring glycerin, as well as the goat milk and vitamin-rich egg yolks.  Treating the scalp well is so important to healthy hair - if your skin is nourished and moisturized, it doesn’t need to produce more oils, and so your hair actually stays clean longer, and the whole cycle is healthier for hair and skin!  

When using as shampoo, follow with an apple cider vinegar rinse (I use a small spritzer bottle) if you have harder water, and if you have soft water you probably don’t need anything, and there's often no need for conditioner, although I do make a solid conditioner bar as well. Since I started making and using bar shampoo 10 years ago, this is all I use and I love it!  

To learn more about me, my goats, our farm here in Tennessee, or how I make my soap, visit my About page here at Etsy, or stop by my blog and website at www.SolaceFarmHomestead.com or check out our new Instagram account and see what’s going on on the farm!