The Pretty Farm Girl Journal

Colonial Soap-Making — The Original Homestead Apothecary — Pretty Farm Girl
Colonial Soap-Making — The Original Homestead Apothecary
Lye plus wood ash plus saved cooking fat — the real origin of homemade soap traditions. From the Persian physician Al-Razi to Colonial Williamsburg's apothecary records, here is the lineage... Read more...
Goat Milk Soap — From Cleopatra to Cold Process — Pretty Farm Girl
Goat Milk Soap — From Cleopatra to Cold Process
Goat milk has been on human skin for two thousand years — from Cleopatra's milk baths through pastoral cultures of the Mediterranean to the cold-process soap of the modern homestead.... Read more...
Tallow in Skincare — A 5,000-Year History — Pretty Farm Girl
Tallow in Skincare — A 5,000-Year History
Tallow has been on human skin for 5,000 years — from Egyptian apothecary chests through Roman bathhouses to the 2024 Cureus scoping review on its biocompatibility with skin. Here is... Read more...