There’s a Market for Goat’s Milk Soap (Times Union)
This story by Tim O’Brien was published in the Times Union on July 11, 2000.
Above: Times Union, Tuesday, July 11, 2000. Photos by Jonathan Fickies / Times Union. Click to enlarge.
This profile followed Karen DuJack, who makes goat’s-milk soap on her Brunswick farm and was one of 15 to 20 vendors and craftspeople selling each week at the Troy Waterfront Farmers Market, held 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday next to the Troy Town Dock & Marina at 433 River St. near the Hudson River in Troy, with the market running until the end of October. The Times Union reported that DuJack sold blueberries, lip balm and hand cream but that her line of goat’s-milk soaps — scented with everything from almond to oatmeal — made her offerings unusual, and that the soap is about one-third goat’s milk from the 19 goats the DuJacks keep. The paper noted the market also featured live musicians and other vendors selling pork, sauerkraut, cut flowers, vegetables, berries and baked bread.
“We started with goats because we wanted to drink goat’s milk.”
— Karen DuJack, in the Times Union