~Winds of Faith Co.~

 In this page, I'm sharing about my small business! 

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I am currently in the process of building my brand and running a successful small business. It all started with Goats Milk Soap, but I have decided that I want to be able to sell more than just soap. I am expanding my horizons by also starting to sell bath salts, crocheted items, paintings, macramé, and basically anything artsy/creative that I come up with!

But as of now, the main thing I sell is soap! If you are interested in any of my Goats Milk Soap scents, feel free to contact me so I can tell you what's available at the time! I usually have 3-10 scents available at one time, and try to keep them appropriate for each season as it changes.

I'm exited to see where God takes my small business as I sell through Facebook, Instagram, and have a stand set up in our small town.

If you are interested in buying any of Winds of Faith Co. products, feel free to shoot me a email using the contact form on my sidebar!

Find My Business On Facebook!
Winds of Faith Goats Milk Soap is on Facebook! Check it out, HERE to watch exclusive soap making videos, updated scents, and more! Let me know if you visited my business on Facebook in the comments below.

Soap Scents we have made in the past!
~Creamy Unscented~
Our Creamy Unscented bars are made for those with sensitive skin. Each soap bar lathers well, leaving your skin feeling silky, smooth, and clean!

~Unscented Swirl~
Our Unscented Swirl soap is exactly like our Creamy Unscented bar, but with a extra special flair. This Unscented Swirl soap is naturally swirled with clays and herbs for coloring.

~Honey Oatmeal~ 
Made with raw honey harvested from Winds of Faith beehives, our Honey Oatmeal soap contains colloidal oatmeal for a soft and soothing exfoliation. Scented using Oatmeal Milk & Honey Fragrance Oil, these bars have a sweet and creamy quality to them that adds to this already rich bar of sudsy soap!

~Charcoal Cleanse~ 
Swirled with cleansing black charcoal, these bars of soap is designed to sooth and detox your skin! 

~Wild Rose~
Pretty in pink, our Wild Rose bars are scented with wild rose fragrance oil and topped with aesthetically pleasing rosebuds!

~Pink Peppermint~
Scrub-a-dub-dub with our Pink Peppermint bars made using red jojoba beads for its unique pink color and medium exfoliation. Each batch is scented with peppermint essential oils! 

~Lavender~
Our Lavender soap bars have a perfect balance between their calming essential oil scent and their artistic presentation! 

~Fall Harvest Candy Corn~ 
Naturally colored with turmeric and scented with a hint of vanilla essential oil, this seasonal soap var resembles candy corn. Our Fall harvest Candy Corn soap is layered with different shades of yellow, orange, and white. This creamy, sweet scented soap is perfect for the fall season! 

~Pumpkin Pie~ 
Our Pumpkin Pie soap bars live up to their name! this batch of soap was made with pumpkin pie spice blend including cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. What makes these soap bars especially unique is they are made with real pumpkin purée. Pumpkin is known for it's skin nourishing qualities with vitamin A and C which helps soften and soothe the skin. Each bar has a resemblance to a slice of pumpkin pie, even topped with "Whipped topping."

~Frosted White Pine~ 
This soap batch was naturally colored with spirulina powder to create a soft, light green. Our Frosted White Pine soap bars are scented with pine needle essential oil, givignthem a crisp wintery feel that is perfect the colder months. The top of each bar is artfully designed to look every bit of it's name!

~Warm Cinnamon Spice~ 
This happens to be our most popular soap scent! What gives it a warm, cozy feel is it's essential oil blend. This essential oil, a blend of cloves, lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus, and rosemary has immune system boosting properties. Our Warm Cinnamon Spice bars are designed with cinnamon "pencil lines."d

~Hot Cocoa~ 
Calling all chocolate lovers! Our Hot Cocoa soap bars smell good enough to be the real deal. Scented with Dark Chocolate fragrance oil, these bars have the color, scent, and look of hot cocoa. Treat yourself or gift one of these carefully made soap bars for a delightful indulgence! 

~City Slicker~ 
Made with an intriguing Birchwood Oud fragrance oil, a complex picture of wild cypress, ozone, lime, sea salt, leather, amber, and ocean moss. This manly scented soap has rich undertones with a clean finish!

~Orange Creamsicle~ 
Smooth and creamy, our Orange Creamsicle Goats Milk Soap is scented with Sweet Orange essential oil to create a hint of citrus. This bar of soap is artistically swirled with creamy white and light orange (made by adding turmeric) as well as topped with dried orange slices!

~Caffè Latte~ 
We added fresh ground espresso roast 100% Arabica coffee beans to our creamy goats milk soap to create a luxurious bar of soap. With coffee grounds as an exfoliant plus fresh brewed coffee, this bar has natural anti-aging qualities. In addition to all of the skin benefits this soap has to offer, it's swirls turned out beautiful! Just like a creamy "cup of Joe."

~Matcha Tea Tree~ 
This is the perfect healthy skin duo. A soap batch made with Matcha green tea and scented with natural Tea Tree essential oil. Matcha tea has many healthy skin benefits such as having anti-inflammatory properties. Tea Tree is also a anti-inflammatory and helps soothe the skin. This Matcha Tea Tree bar is great for all skin types!

~Passionfruit~ 
Scented with Passionfruit Rose fragrance oil, this soap bar is fruity and sweet with a hint of wild rose! 

Wooden Soap Dishes!
I am really excited to make our goats milk soap accessories! These wooden soap dishes are used to sit your soap on in the shower or the sink. They are to help your soap last longer and stay in better shape! 

Heres the video I made of making these wood soap dishes!

So pretty cool, right? I love making things that are so useful with the scrap wood I have laying around. :) 

It started with a picture on Pinterest. I was looking for things I could make to go with the soap and a picture of these wood soap dishes showed up. I decided I would try my hand at making them, with papa of course! 

-Finding the right wood. 
Luckily I had a board in mind for this project and was ready to go!
-Measuring and marking. 
This was where we did the brainstorming! We marked on the wood where we wanted the saw blades, etc...
-Sawing and Cutting.
Our saw lines were about two saw blades. We sawed two lines underneath and three on top. Where the lines "overlapped" there is a hole strait through. Then we cut to desired length. The soap dishes ended up being roughly 3 1/2 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide with not even a inch thick.
-Giving the finishing touches.
Sanding took a while to get into all of the saw lines. And then the last step (one that I didn't show in the video) is to either wood burn a design and/or put mineral oil on the wood.

These are fairly easy (with the right wood, saws, etc.) to make! I am really happy with how they turned out! 

How we made our first batch of Goats Milk Soap!
 (Go to my Winds of Faith page to see a picture of Lilly and her baby, Angel!) 

We followed the recipe from Lovin Soap, Soap Making Studio. This method uses frozen goats milk to be mixed with the lye. The lye will then melt the milk with less/no fumes. Heres how or first (of many, I hope) soap making experience went...

Ingredients:

20oz. Coconut oil

5oz. Shea Butter 

20oz. Olive oil

5oz. Rice Bran oil 

5oz. Avocado oil

4oz. Castor oil

5oz. Sweet Almond oil

4 teaspoons Sodium Lactate

18oz. Lilly's milk!

9oz. Lye

To half of this recipe, we added 2 Tablespoons colloidal oatmeal and 2 Tablespoons or our farm honey! Note: This recipe has 4lbs. of oils combined.

- Prepping the area. We covered our counter with trash bags, but in the future I would like to get a plastic table cloth instead. Next, we laid our all of our gear and soap making supplies. This included our safety glasses and gloves, our ingredients, bowls, measuring cups, stick blender, scale, and our molds.

- The second step was to weigh our hard oils (Coconut and Shea) so that they could start melting on the stove.

- After we started the hard oils heating on the stove, we put a large glass measuring cup in a big bowl of ice water. In the glass measuring cup, we put 18oz. of frozen (in ice cubes) goats milk. Then we SLOWLY added the 9oz. of lye. As the lye dissolved, the milk melted. The highest temperature this mixture got up to was 85 degrees Fahrenheit. This was a good  temperature. If it got too hot, then it would have scorched the milk and discolored. 

- Going back to the oils, we took our now liquid, hard oils off the stove and added them to all of the other oils. The room temperature oils brought down the heat to 87 degrees Fahrenheit. 

- Now it is time to make soap! We combined the oils and the lye solution in a big bowl. We used the electric stick blender until we got trace (thick enough to see lines on top, not runny where it sinks) It heated up more as I blended it. It got to 93 degrees Fahrenheit.

-We added sodium lactate. (This helps make a solid bar of soap.)

-Now, this is where we did some things a little bit differently than the original recipe. We divided the soap into two bowls. One would make plain goats milk soap, and the other would be oatmeal honey goats milk soap! 

-The unscented one went in the mold first. We used a 10 inch loaf mold and I "spooned" the top.

-Then we added our honey and oatmeal to the second bowl. We used another 10 inch mold and I decorated the top with oatmeal!

-To be extra careful of the milk burning, we put our soap in the fridge for a couple of hours.

-After waiting 24 hours, we unmolded them and cut them using a wavy cutter. 

-The last step is to make a well ventilated area for our soap to cure for 4-6 weeks! 

This was so much fun to make! And our soap bars our SO pretty! I can't wait to use our soap! 

Have you ever made cold-prossesed soap? Do you like watching the videos? Comment below!