‘The Gamrie Goat’ is a natural goats-milk soap; handmade by Christine Ralph and her family croft on the beautiful Moray coast in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The goats are called Goldie, Myrrh, Snowy, Sunny, Foggy, Blizzard, Balmy, Gale, Frosty, Cirrus, and Nimbus (Oh and their pal, Storm, -a rejected lamb). They sleep in Ralph’s barn at night, or when it’s raining, and graze on their pastures when the sun shines.
When Christine Ralph says “hand-made” she really means just that.
Each morning and evening she milks the goats the old fashioned way; by hand, sitting on a stool in the doorway of the barn.
She then blends the milk with the best oils and butters that she can find, including shea butter, cocoa butter and olive oil; She does not add scents or colours of any kind as these can irritate the skin. She then moulds it, packs it, and either sells it herself from a stall at the local Farmer’s Market, or increasingly nowadays, ship it out to shops and individual customers both locally and around the world.
Christine originally devised the soap to use for herself. She has sensitive skin and hadn’t used soap for years. Knowing that goat’s milk has an age-old reputation of being good for the skin she began experimenting until she came up with this truly excellent soap.
And The Gamrie’s Goat soap was born.