Our Journey to Creating Goats Milk Soap
Where It Began
Marsh Valley is a family-run business founded by Sam and Jess in Sheffield, South Yorkshire born from our passion for working with animals. It all began with just two adorable Anglo Nubian kids, and we absolutely fell head over heels for their floppy ears and goofy personalities.
Our adventure kicked off with the exciting task of growing our herd and two very quickly turned into ten. During the hunt for our new members we met some wonderful people and discovered a new aspect of goat keeping that we had to be a part of it, agricultural shows!
Brainstorming
Owning dairy goats comes with the obvious, milk! This is the one thing we didn't take into consideration, the volume of milk they actually produce. Even after the kids have had their fill, there is still plenty to go around.
So what to do with all that milk...
We brainstormed so many ideas and finally arrived at our decision, goats milk soap! As a sufferer of psoriasis this was a perfect solution, we never knew just how good goats milk was for you and your skin, but soon found it to be extremely helpful what's more our friends, family and neighbours loved it too!
Marsh Valley Was Born!
We then created our first 8 cold process soap bar recipes, choosing skin loving butters and oils to make our soap luxuriously thick and moisturising. These recipes were sent off to obtain our cosmetic safety report to enable us to sell our lovely product to you!
Since then we have expanded our range to shampoo bars for both pets & humans. And expanded our herd to a second breed of goat, the British Alpine.
All your support means we get to enjoy working with our beautiful animals everyday and for that we cannot thank you enough.
We hope you enjoy our products as much as we do!
Sam, Jess & The Marsh Valley Herd x