Seeking palm oil free soap for itchy skin?

If you have been searching for soap without palm oil, you must be looking for palm oil free soap. If so, no doubt at some stage you have come to know about the devastation the palm oil industry is causing.

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Once your eyes are “opened” to what is really going on with palm oil, and you start looking for it in the ingredients of products you are using every day, you suddenly realize palm oil is in so many of the everyday items you have been using!

“Where on earth can I find soap without palm oil?”

Mother orangutan with her baby

Avoiding buying products that contain palm oil is not easy. So next time you go shopping, you read the list of ingredients carefully to pick the items without palm oil…

Do you feel like screaming after turning over every bar of soap on supermarket shelves and spotting words such as “Sodium Palmate” and “Sodium Palm Kernelate” every time? Even simple words like “vegetable shortening” or “vegetable oil” probably mean they have palm oil in them. Where are you supposed to find soap that contains no palm oil and feel sure about it?

To make matters worse, when it comes to palm oil free soap, the available options are extremely limited.

If you have special needs such as eczema, psoriasis, rosacea or sensitive skin, it is terribly hard to find something which is non-irritating, let alone without palm oil! Do you then have to succumb to making a compromise? We think not!


Palm Oil Free Soap
Palm Oil Free, Goat Milk Soap, Milk Relief Soap™

Common reasons people buy this soap

Milk Relief Soap™ was designed especially for one family’s hypersensitive skin. This product is designed with itchy skin in mind. Common reasons why repeat customers buy this product include people looking for a soap that:

  • cleans without irritating
  • gives no itching scalp after the shower
  • does not clog the pores of the skin
  • has zero added fragrance
  • leaves no tingling on the face after washing (dried out skin)
  • farmer to consumer trading.

“It seems strange purchasing soap products from the other side of the planet.”

So what brought me here, to this product?

  1. reduce plastic
  2. reduce chemicals irritating my sensitive skin by stopping purchasing liquid soap as well as
  3. being ecologically minded by purchasing products that do not use palm oil (even “sustainable” palm oil is destructive) is what brought me here.

Using this product, I now have more moisture in my skin as well as controlled eczema. Milk relief soap is a fantastic product and my skin is very thankful I found it!

Kay Chapman, Texas, USA


As consumers, we should be allowed to choose the products we will support without being bullied into buying items we are not completely happy with.

That is why we make Milk Relief Soap™ Palm Oil Free Soap.  The ingredients are designed to be non-irritating to eczema, psoriasis, rosacea or sensitive skin.

Some Goat Milk Soap dries out skin

Soap is made with goat milk because the ph (acidity) of the milk is similar to that of human skin. But some goat milk soap dries out the skin. That is why we made our own formula, and continue to use it day in and day out. We, the Smith Family Soapmakers think that there are at least two possible reasons why some Goat Milk Soap dries out some people’s skin.

  1. Making natural soap with real milk is not a cheap process. We know that some Goat Milk Soap is made with less costly ingredients.
  2. Some Goat Milk Soap has the glycerine removed because it is a valuable by-product that can be sold or used for higher-value products than soap.

Man-made products are designed with laboratory insight and factory production without whole food ingredients. They are a common solution to the problem of soap drying skin. But our family prefers natural skin care options.

Not all Goat Milk Soap is created with the same non-drying-for-skin factor

People with sensitive skin may choose their soap based purely on how dry their skin feels after using it. I know that we do, at the Smith Family. We have a customer who said they, “Like it better than others, and they have tried a few. In fact, quite a few, actually. “It’s my favourite” is what they said about our small soap with the goatie on it”.

Some Goat Milk Soap is not gentle enough for eczema

It’s possible that a family will get reliant on their soap. (Of course, as soap makers, we totally endorse this…) Many of the folks we work with enjoy staying clean and smelling better than they did before using a cleanser on their bodies. For some families, the type of cleaner they use is more important than for others.

When a member of the family suffers from eczema, the soap they use might make a big difference. Our customers have said things like, “My family swears by this product. My husband and three year old daughter both have eczema.”

Family members who are particular about their soap selection may do so because they require a soft, non-irritating cleanser.

When it comes to eczema, it’s critical not to run out of gentle soap. However, the family occasionally runs out of their favourite soap. Then the trouble starts. What if the other brand is cheaper, but it isn’t as effective?

Have you struggled to find the soap without heaps of additives?

Some people attribute their scalp itching after the shower to the additives that they see in their soap ingredients. We have kept our soap recipe as simple as possible. If “nasty additives” are your concern, you may find hope here. Our main goal has always been, “No itching from soap any more”.

Does soap clog your skin pores?

A soap may have so many added items in it that the skin pores get clogged. It has been said that our soap does not do that. We have certainly experienced great pore unclogging benefits using the Goat Milk Soap. But, each person may experience the soap differently. Certainly, it takes more than one initial use to see how the soap is going to work out for your skin.

Are you looking for fragrance-free Goats Milk Soap?

There are people out there who don’t welcome a gift of goat milk soap from a friend, even though the friend knows they use goat milk soap, exclusively. But why?

Some people with eczema can only use goat’s milk soap, but not all of them. They need fragrance-free goat milk soap.

Milk Relief Soap™ has no fragrance added. See the ingredients or product pages for more details. The Skincare sticks also have no fragrance added.

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Goat Milk Soap | Dry Skin Care

Have you struggled to find the soap without heaps of additives?

We have kept our soap recipe as simple as possible. If “nasty additives” is your concern, you may find hope here. Our main goal has always been, “No itching from soap any more”.

The purpose of this site is to offer hope to those suffering from dry skin. The Smith Family Soapmakers create natural care products for dry skin, eczema and psoriasis.

The purpose of this site is to offer hope to those suffering from dry skin. The Smith Family Soapmakers create natural care products for dry skin, eczema and psoriasis.


My soap search is finally over.

Marion Preston, Blenheim, New Zealand

I really wanted to try Milk Relief Soap™, as I was having trouble finding something mild, perfume free & without palm oil etc.

Marion Preston, Blenheim, New Zealand

“Palm oil free soap is one thing, but I also need…”

Tropical rainforest in Borneo

You want to use palm oil free soap, but then there is a list of criteria you are looking for as well.

Your list might look like this:

  • No chemicals check out the ingredients
  • Unscented (no fragrance or essential oils)
  • Fragrance-free-goats-milk-soap
  • Handmade from scratch (not “Melt and Pour”)
  • Lathers and cleans well
  • Plain
  • Mild
  • Moisturizing
  • Fair trade
  • Totally sustainable
  • 100% natural soap (not synthetic detergent)
  • Non-irritating for eczema, psoriasis, rosacea or acne
  • Organic ingredients
  • Synthetic preservatives? No
  • Animal testing (cruelty free)? No animal testing
  • Tallow or lard? None
  • Whiteners or bleaches? No
  • Colorants? No
  • Alcohol? None
  • Added water? No
  • Hydrogenated oils? None
  • SLS, sodium lauryl sulfate? Absolutely no
  • Parabens? None
  • Propylene glycol? No
  • No formaldehyde
  • Affordable for everyday use

Yes, Milk Relief Soap™ meets all of the above criteria, because they are important to us, too.

We bought some goat soap of another brand but it does not have the same efficacy

“My family swears by this product. My husband and three year old daughter both have eczema. This goat soap is so gentle and soothing that its great to use during and after flare-ups. The one time we ran out, we bought some goat soap of another brand but it does not have the same efficacy. This is our family’s bath soap and now we get a steady supply so we don’t run out.”

Yeen Tan

As simple as possible, but no simpler.

The ingredients for Milk Relief Soap™ are kept as simple as possible on purpose. Simplicity with absolutely no compromise in quality is our goal. This moisturizing soap is carefully handmade in small batches using the old-fashioned cold-process method to seal in all the goodness of the fresh ingredients and cured for several weeks to ensure maximum mildness.

Both our Milk Relief Soap™ and Lano Relief Skin Stick™ maximize on the pure ingredients we can get in New Zealand. Both products were originally developed for our family’s use, and we now offer them to you, totally unchanged. Enjoy the unique products handmade on our farm in the pristine environment in Fiordland, New Zealand.

Firstly, About Our Core Principles

  • Goat Milk Soap direct from the farmer to consumer – if possible, no-one else between.
  • Consistent premium quality
  • We offer a 90-Day Unconditional “Wet & Dent” Guarantee with every bar of soap we sell. Even after you throw away the original packaging and use the soap and knock it about, if you are not happy for any reason, we will give you a full refund upon receiving the returned order. Just email us first.
  • Created away from any scents – we do not make scented soap
  • Fair working conditions
  • No fillers or additives
  • Water not added to our products

I really struggle with dry skin and eczema, especially during Covid

My sister bought me some of your skin sticks and I have been in love with them ever since. I really struggle with dry skin and eczema, especially during covid, so it’s been a very welcome relief to use your products. 
I will continue to purchase your skin sticks and soaps whenever I need a top up.

Alexandra McMannus, Victoria, Australia.

Do our goats feed their own young? See our farm video with over 160,000 views, on our YouTube channel

In late 2020 the Smith Family Soapmakers started a YouTube channel, Goat Milk Soap New Zealand. When we noticed the goat kid started to suck from her mother at the milking stand, we decided to take a short video. Little did we know it would become our most viewed video clip to date.

And what a fitting demonstration of the type of whole family farming we endeavor to maintain here.

If you are interested in #GoatWatch type of videos or know someone who is, then head over to YouTube and look up Goat Milk Soap New Zealand. We have some animal videos worth watching there.

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