New business in downtown Idaho Falls makes soap with goat milk
July 19, 2022
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IDAHO FALLS – Finding the secret to lasting beauty is an ongoing quest for many women and a new soap business in downtown Idaho Falls utilizes a specific ingredient historically believed to have the answer.
One of history’s most well-known beauties was Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. And according to legend, the technique she used was bathing daily in donkey milk. She believed its ingredients preserve the skins’s youthful vitality with anti-aging and skin smoothing benefits, according to The Vintage News.
Bumble & Bleat Soapery and Sundry at 357 A Street sells a line of soap products made from milk. But the milk comes from goats — not donkeys.
“My husband and son are both sensitive to cow milk and so we wanted to get goat milk, learning that the protein in it is most similar to human milk,” Owner Sharon Reaser tells EastIdahoNews.com about choosing goats over donkeys.
Milk of any kind is known to contain skin nourishing vitamins and minerals, fatty acids, moisturizing non-saturated fats and lactic acid, which Reaser describes as a “natural and gentle exfoliant for the skin.”
“So we can see why (there may have been something to bathing in milk),” Reaser says. “The legend is it took like 500 donkeys to be milked to fill (Cleopatra’s) tub. It makes me laugh to think of who did all that milking and how hard that must’ve been.”
Fortunately for Reaser, it doesn’t take nearly that many goats. She and her husband, Leon, own eight goats on a 3-acre farm on the outskirts of town. And they milk the goats daily to make the products sold in her store.
The entire product line includes soap, body butter, sugar and salt scrubs, bath bombs and solid lotion sticks. For men, there are shave soaps, beard oils and balms.
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