09/10/2025
🐐 Why Busted and Broke Ranch Goat Milk Soap Doesn’t Face the Recall Problem
You may have seen the nationwide recalls of factory-made soaps, sanitizers, lotions, and shampoos due to contamination with dangerous bacteria like Burkholderia cepacia complex. People often ask if this could happen with our goat milk soap. The short answer is no — and here’s the detailed reason why.
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1. True Soap vs. Chemical Cleansers
Most recalled products aren’t true soaps. They’re liquid cleansers, foams, lotions, or gels made from synthetic surfactants and water. Anything water-based must rely on preservatives, and if those fail, bacteria can thrive.
Our soap is real, old-fashioned soap — made by saponifying farm-raised fats and goat milk with lye. Once the lye has done its work, there is no leftover lye, just a stable, naturally alkaline bar. That high pH alone makes it very difficult for bacteria, mold, or yeast to survive.
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2. No Free Water = Shelf Stability
Factory products: High water content + long shelf life = perfect breeding ground for microbes when preservatives break down.
Our soap: Solid cured bars contain no free water. Without that water, microbes have nowhere to grow. Properly cured bars stay safe and effective for years without artificial preservatives.
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3. Natural Protective Ingredients
Goat milk brings in fatty acids, vitamins, and lactic compounds that gently nourish skin while also helping discourage bacterial growth. Paired with rendered tallow, butters, and essential oils, our bars carry natural antifungal, antimicrobial, and antibacterial properties.
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4. Small-Batch Craftsmanship
Industrial scale: Thousands of gallons pumped through tanks and pipes. If contamination sneaks in anywhere, it spreads to massive lots.
At the ranch: We make soap in small, hand-poured batches. Our equipment is straightforward and easy to sanitize — no hidden industrial plumbing for bacteria to cling to.
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5. Nothing to Hide
We don’t rely on preservatives, fillers, or melt-and-pour glycerin bases. Our soap is exactly what we say it is: goat milk, rendered ranch tallow, natural butters, and carefully chosen essential oils. That simplicity keeps the bar safe, stable, and wholesome.
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✅ The Bottom Line
The recalls are happening because mass-produced, water-heavy cleansers depend on preservatives that sometimes fail.
Our goat milk soaps are antifungal, antimicrobial, antibacterial, and naturally self-preserving. There is no hidden water and no unnecessary additives, which means there’s no risk of the bacterial contamination seen in those recalls.
With Busted and Broke Ranch soap, you can be confident you’re getting a safe, stable, and truly farm-crafted bar every single time.
