About Us
Our Farming Journey
Whilst not coming from a farming background, we decided that we wanted to have control over the food we ate, we began our journey as smallholders in 2014. As our skills and passion for farming grew we knew we wanted to grow a business where we could work with animals and nature to produce high quality, high welfare, products in harmony with the countryside.
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A dairy allergy in the family also meant we explored alternatives to cows milk....and our sheep milk journey was born.
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The sheep milk has created amazing milk, cream, yoghurt and cheeses for our family, but we wanted to share this great product with others, and so Baa of Soap was born.
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If you would like to see and hear more about our farm, please go to:
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Our
Soap
Tested by Farmers
Farming is not a clean hobby, job or career. We are constantly washing our hands after every job. Our skin became increasingly dry, particularly through the winter months. At the same time, our daughter started reacting to household soap, getting dry, and often broken, skin.
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This made us start looking at natural soaps. And we realised, we could make our own! Our soap is made from sheep milk, ensuring that the soap not only cleanses our hands but also does not strip them of moisture.
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Passionate about traceability, we create natural, hand crafted soap, incorporating products from our farm.
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Our base liquid is the sheep milk from our Lacune sheep, which we milk for six months every year. We also use other ingredients from the farm, the including bees wax from our ever expanding set of hives at home and around the local area.
Our
Sheep
The Lacaune
Whilst we keep a number of different rare breeds on the farm, our Lacaune sheep are bred for their milk production.
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Originally from the Tarn region of France, this hardy breed of dairy sheep are excellent on the Staffordshire hills, and very resistant to the many problems sheep can have. In France they are used to produce the famous Roquefort cheese.
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We lamb the Lacaunes in January. For the first two weeks we let the ewes and their lambs bond, feed and grow. At two weeks we start milking once a day. For the first four to six weeks we milk share with the lambs so they get the best start possible. Once the lambs are strong enough the sheep are then used solely for the milk until summer.
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If you would like to learn more about the sheep, look at the Wikipedia page
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Our
Bees
Bees & Beekeeping
Bees are fascinating creatures, everyone is aware of how important they are for plant polination, however they are an amazing producer of natural resources as well.
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Whether its the honey, pollen or wax there is always a use for their hard work.
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The wax we use in our products is a bi-product of the honey extraction. The cappings to the honey, is the finest wax the bees produce so they can seal in their honey stores. When taking the honey, we save this wax and then incorporate it in to what we make. Its very clean, and gives the soap a vanilla scent.