Why Use Goat Milk Soaps?

Why use goat milk soaps in our shower routine? Well, because goat milk has many benefits. It gently but deeply cleanses your skin, prevents premature aging, relieves irritation and inflammation, promotes soft and healthy skin, just to name a few.

Goat milk when combined with other ingredients will enhance the benefits already mentioned.

This type of soap is naturally high in saturated and unsaturated fat creating a creamy, gentle, and nourishing soap. Moreover, its high lactic acid content may help exfoliate the skin, which may benefit those with acne.

Goat milk has become very popular in recent years but it actually is mentioned in Greek and Egyptian mythology. In the Egyptian town of Mendes the sacred goat Ba-neb-Djedet (the Billy goat, lord of Djedjet) was a symbol of fertility and abundance (The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt, 1974). In Celtic religions, the goat represented fertility, and goat-horned divinities are recorded in Britain and Gaul (France) (Green, 1992). The use of goat’s milk by the Gauls is also, comically, illustrated in “Asterix and the Banquet” (Goscinny and Uderzo, 1979).

In Scotland, images of the goat have been found to represent fertility and aggression. In British fairytale, the goat is pictured as the steed of the king dwarf from Fairyland (Briggs, 1978). The Urisk or Uruisg was a solitary rough kind of brownie, half-human, half-goat, who herded cattle, did work around the farm, and was very lucky to have in the house (Briggs, 1978).

In Norwegian myth, a goat that fed on the great world-tree, Yggdrasill, gave mead instead of milk, and this mead supplied the great feasts that the gods held (Barber, 1979). In Germany, an altar dedicated to the triple Matronae has, on the reverse, a carving of a snake-entwined tree and a triple bodied goat.

Try goat milk soap and see for yourself !