Goat’s Milk Soap

One of the most popular special additives soap makers use when making soap is goat’s milk...and rightly so. It makes a lovely, creamy, moisturizing soap. Milk contains all sorts of natural emollients, vitamins and triglycerides that help soothe, balance and moisturize the skin. People who use goat’s milk soap swear by it! If you want to try your hand at this, go to the where to buy page on this website and get hold of one of the farmers in your area. You can also use powdered or evaporated (canned) goat's milk. Once you try it, I'm sure you (and your skin) will feel it was well worth it.

Goat's milk is an excellent skin care ingredient and makes a moisturizing, gentle bar of soap. There are a few people in South Africa that make this fine product. To get in touch with them, go to the where to buy section on this website and search under the "other products section"

If you are interested in making milk soap, we highly recommend that you get in touch with Debbie Rogers who is based on the Eastrand of Johannesburg. Debbie is very passionate about making anything from body lotions to soap and she uses only the best quality ingredients. All the raw materials for this are available from her and she will ship your order to you anywhere in the world. Amongst other things Debbie has also developed many ‘biodegradable’ products on instruction of students from Wits University in South Africa. She also imports top class fragrances (the real thing) from Europe, so if you want to make something really special you could even make your soap (and your body) smell like Tommy Girl or Hugo Boss.

Debbie offers soap making courses which you should enquire about when you contact her. You can get in touch with her through her website www.funwithsoap.co.za. Make sure you also visit her bog spot at www.soapsensations.iblog.co.za

Also check out these sites for some ideas from people who already manufacture soap from goat’s milk in the USA and Europe:

theuddergoatsoap.net
www.grannannysgoatmilksoaps.net
www.mbfarviewfarm.com

Milk Beer
(Only the French will dream this up)

A resourceful Breton dairy farmer has come up with a new invention: milk beer.

"Everyone thought I was crazy to try to make a milk-based alcohol," Marcel Besnard said in Rennes, adding that low prices and strict quotas had led him to consider other ways of marketing milk.

The new drink, Lactiwel, made from milk and malt, contains 2% alcohol and is brewed using a fermentation process similar to that of traditional beer, except that instead of ale or lager yeast, Bernard uses kefir (Turkish milk product) yeast and lactic bacteria.

The Frenchman has also developed a method to change the unsaturated fat content of milk.

With a current output of 300 bottles a week, sold in small shops, festivals and markets, Besnard is looking for investment to expand production and get his product on to supermarket shelves.