The story of Kentucky Soaps & Such begins in 2003 with the store’s owner, Angela Correll, and her backyard pasture full of pet goats. Though Angela was content to let the goats live a life of leisure on her Stanford farm, her husband Jess, a businessman and part-time farmer, wanted the animals to produce something of value or retire elsewhere. Unwilling to part with them, Angela began to research goats and discovered a host of benefits their nutrient-rich milk could offer. She decided to make soap as a way for her pets to earn their keep, and in 2003, Angela’s niece, Lea Ann, made the first successful batch. That day, the Plainview Farm product line, named after Jess and Angela’s farm, was born.
Today, our Plainview Farm products are made on-site at our store in Stanford, Kentucky. We make our soaps, scrubs and salts from scratch and mix our creams and liquid soaps with high-quality essential oils. In addition to soap, all our other products are mixed and packaged here. We are passionate about making products that support local farmers and provide healing benefits for our customers. All products are ethically made with a social impact in mind.
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The first step in making our goat milk soap is to mix a combination of rainwater captured from our rain barrel with lye. Then we add sustainable palm oil, olive oil, and coconut oil to create a base, weighing each liquid addition according to our recipe.
Goat milk is then added to the mixing drum, delivered fresh from our local farmer and frozen until ready for use in the mixture. We mix until it thickens and then add any of our extra ingredients, like essential oils, honey, or oatmeal.
Once it reaches perfect consistency, it is poured into a large mold for drying, making approximately 350 bars. The mold is set aside in the drying room to complete the saponification process. Five days later, we cut the loaves and then the bars so they are ready to be dried for another 45 days in our cool drying room.
Want to see it in person? Stop by anytime we are open to see the facility. We ask that groups of six or more book in advance so they receive a guided tour, at no cost.
You can call us at 606-365-0808 to schedule your tour today!
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Angela is the co-founder of Wilderness Road Hospitality, which includes Kentucky Soaps & Such, The Inn at Wilderness Road, Esther’s Wellhouse, and co-owns the Bluebird, a farm-to-table restaurant, with her husband, Jess, and Executive Chef William Hawkins.
Angela is a best-selling author of the May Hollow Trilogy, fiction with humor, mystery and romance. The story begins with Grounded, continues with Guarded and ends with Granted.
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