About the Bellingham Soap Company
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People often ask me how I started out making soap, it all came about as a reason to use up our surplus goats milk. In 1997 I was living on a little smallholding in Bellingham, Northumberland with my husband, our four children, six cats, two dogs, a sheep, twenty hens and my two beloved goats.
Lottie our nanny goat was a prolific milker, we had more milk than we knew what to do with, I made goat cheese and yogurt, poured it on cereal, mixed custards, gave pints to the cats but we still had loads left. I wondered what else I could do with it so I popped onto the internet for ideas and found a recipe for goats milk soap, it was a basic "old timers" cold kettle recipe, it got me started but I wanted to know how to make up my own. So, after a very long process of trial, error and careful calculation I formulated an olive, palm and coconut base and began to make all kinds of soap for my friends and family using the milk, flowers and herbs from my garden...it very soon became a full time job.
