Nature's Pure Forms

In my family, we have made our own soap and lotion for almost 20 years. It started with my mother, her diary cows and her love for "making potions". When I was younger, we had New Mexico's smallest registered dairy. My sister raised dairy cattle for 4-H and my mother saw an opportunity with the dairies to save as many heifer calves as possible. She frequented the sale barn in Clovis and Portales as much as possible. She was known as the dairy heifer lady. She would buy as many day old calves as possible so she could do her best to save them.

 

 

We were raised on milk, and when you have a dairy there's an abundance of that white stuff. So, we started looking for ways to utilize all of it we could. One of these ways was through soaps and lotions.

 

 

Traditional lotion and soap had stopped working for her a number of years at that point, and she wanted to get back to basics and work on the quality of her skin. So she and I started experimenting. Our family was the guinea pig and through that process we've been able to share my mother's soap recipe with friends and family. I think we both had a love for chemistry, in this simplified form. It is something I am grateful we shared together.

 

 

I created Dry Mountain Farm in hopes for her and I to market and sell these "potions" together, however life intervened in its way and she is no longer with us. It's been a journey to start making soap and lotion again when it's so tied to her spirit and personality. I remembered that she is a part of me and this is part of my story, too.

 

 

Now, I want to continue her and our legacy by sharing a bit of our life and home to you folks. Join me in continuing my soap and lotion journey, I would love to have your support.