BUSINESS
Wallowa County Chieftain
A6
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Woman sells goat milk soap from Wallowa home
BIZZ
BUZZ
By Bill Bradshaw
W
ALLOWA —
Davi Parker
doesn’t cry over
spilled milk; she makes
soap out of it — as long as
it’s from her goats.
In fact, some of her prod-
ucts look tasty, but her soap
is strictly to clean the body.
“I do have some soaps
that look like delicious
cupcakes, but they cer-
tainly wouldn’t taste deli-
cious,” the Wallowa owner
of Spilt Milk Soaps said
during a Jan. 27 interview.
“Goat milk is amazing stuff ,
whether it is used topically
or internally; just don’t eat
goat milk soap.”
Parker has been making
the soap from her own goats
for six years. She started
selling soap, bath and body
items, lotions and shave
bars — all from goat milk
— about three years ago.
She also makes some men’s
beard-care products, includ-
ing beard balm and oil.
“Those obviously don’t
have goat milk,” she said.
SPILT MILK SOAPS
Who: Davi Parker
Where: Wallowa
What: Soap from goats
milk
Email: spiltmilksoaps@
frontier.com
The process
The soap is made using a
combination of oils and lye,
Parker said.
“I use ‘full milk’ for
all of my soaps,” she said.
“This means all of the liq-
uid used to dissolve lye is
full goat milk not diluted
with water. I have a cou-
ple bars that are the excep-
tion — one uses half sea
water we gathered from the
ocean, and the other uses
half beer.”
To make the soap, the
dissolved lye is added to
the oils and blended until
emulsifi ed.
“Then fragrance and
Website: www.spiltmilk-
soaps.com
Also on Facebook: Spilt
Milk Soaps
Davi Parker/Contributed Photo
Davi Parker poses with her overhauling wether, Gruff . She
makes soap from the milk her doe goats produce at her
Wallowa home.
color are added depending
on the design I am trying to
achieve,” Parker said. “The
soap batter is then poured
into molds, where it goes
through the saponifi cation
process.”
That process is where the
distribution of unsaturated
and saturated fatty acid
determines the hardness,
aroma, cleansing, lather
and moisturizing abilities of
soaps.
“The batter heats up —
it can get quite hot — and
goes through what is called
a gel phase,” she said.
“Here, the batter begins to
solidify and gets gel-like. It
doesn’t have to go through
gel to become soap, but
the gel phase makes col-
ors brighter and the bar ends
up a bit creamier, in my
opinion.”
She said not all people
who make soap prefer to gel
their soaps and others try to
prevent it.
“I like mine to gel,” she
said.
Parker said that after the
soap has been in a mold
for 18-24 hours it can be
removed and sliced into
bars, which then must
cure for 4-6 weeks for any
excess water to evaporate
and the bars to harden fully
and become more mild. She
said that some soaps, such
as castille soap, are cured
for an entire year.
The soaps
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her soap does more than
get a person clean, she rec-
ommends users research
the benefi ts of goat milk for
their skin.
“All of my soaps are
special,” Parker said. “I
have designed my rec-
ipe, through much trial and
error, to be very cleans-
ing without being drying
and to add enough mois-
ture back to your skin with-
out leaving a greasy or res-
idue feel.”
As for the scents she
adds, that’s a bit random.
“I make whatever scents
seem grand to me at the
time; whatever makes me
happy,” she said. “I have in
the past, and plan to con-
tinue in the future, (used)
some odd fragrances, such
as bacon and dill pickle.
Those make me laugh, so I
like to make them.”
Marketing
At present, Parker has
no storefront and sells her
products online. She can be
reached via email and the
products viewed at her web-
site or Facebook page.
Some of her products
are available at shops in the
county, such as the Flannel
Lantern in Joseph.
“When I can, I also sell
at various markets and ven-
dor shows,” she said. “I
sell mainly online. I off er
free local delivery to most
of Wallowa County. I also
off er free shipping on orders
over $40. Sadly, that keeps
going up with the increase
in postage rates.”
———
Bill Bradshaw is a
reporter for the Wallowa
County Chieftain. Have a
business tip? Contact him
at 541-398-5503 or bbrad-
shaw@wallowa.com.
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