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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 Correll lives in Kentucky with her husband Jess on a grass-fed cattle farm.
She is the award-winning author of Grounded, Guarded and Granted, a trilogy of novels that became Amazon bestsellers and have been adapted to the stage for sold-out audiences at the Pioneer Playhouse, Kentucky’s oldest outdoor theater. The novels each include settings in both Kentucky and Italy.
Angela and her husband are founders of Wilderness Road Hospitality, including The Stanford Inn at Wilderness Road, Bluebird, Esther’s Wellhouse, Mama DeVechio’s Pizzeria, Cerulean Catering, and Kentucky Soaps & Such, all located on Main Street in Kentucky’s second-oldest city, Stanford.
Angela has led the renovation and design of seven guest properties and an eight-room hotel along with numerous commercial spaces housing retail shops, restaurants, meeting spaces, office spaces, a spa, and a catering room. Almost all are centered within the historic downtown area of Stanford, Kentucky. Angela and Jess have received several awards for their preservation and revitalization efforts. They share a passion for local food and keeping a small town economically viable.
She and Jess have an Italian-based company created to renovate historic properties for rentals, and they are regularly stumbling through Italian lessons.
