The Humble Soaping Company - Milwaukee

12/20/2025

If you’re local and looking for a last-minute gift, I can still help with some wonderful, hand-crafted all-natural bar soaps. They’re all plant-based and even a natural deodorant soap! 🧼

12/20/2025

Lots of last minute orders going out today! 🎁🧼

12/19/2025

Eucalyptus Spearmint.🧼

I LOVE cutting swirled bars! 😍

12/18/2025

Cashmere becoming soap! ❤️

Tropical, fresh, but not too sweet. My friend Gretchen could talk your ear off about this one! 😜

12/18/2025

Ray of Sunshine. ☀️

Smells JUST like it should. Sunny, citrusy and bright. 🧼

12/15/2025

Howl At The Moon is one of my favorite bars to cut - and for good reason! They’re gorgeous! 😍🧼🫧

12/11/2025

When that lye water hits all the oils, mixes up and you have SAPONIFICATION! 😚🧼🫧

12/08/2025

I took a bunch of photos of cutting and such this season! Here is “Serenity,” going from loaf to bars! The fragrance is clean with notes of floral and musk, but still very gender neutral.

12/07/2025

I’ve been getting a LOT of texts about soap! 🧼

YES!! I still make it! 👋

I do mostly custom orders throughout the year, but I do ramp back up around Mother’s Day and the Holiday Season.

Reach out anytime! (262) 271-1095 ❤️ I can easily get you set for all of the holidays this month! 🎁

02/15/2025

Some helpful egg info to start your weekend out right! 🍳

People are INSANE right now over eggs. It is a topic that has been bringing out the absolute worst in people and a recent local community post here did just that. It proved how uninformed people are about freshness of COMMERCIAL eggs (not the same thing that you purchase here, for a few reasons).

Today, I want to break down the timing labels on your commercial egg cartons to demystify some of the numbers printed there. First of all, the code you most want to know is the “Julian date.” This date tells you the day of the year (out of 365) that your eggs were PACKED into that carton. The photo here shows a date of January 20th (020 of possible 365). The packed date is NOT the same as the day the eggs were laid. Here is where the grey area of the age of commercial eggs begins… the Julian date is required for all USDA-graded eggs.

The second important date is the “sell by date” or the “best-by” date. Here in the US, that date needs to be less than 45 days from the packing date and no later. This is the date that stores have to remove eggs from their shelves. You may notice stores starting to deeply discount cartons within a week or two of reaching that sell by date. That’s just business. You are likely safe to eat these eggs 2-3 weeks after that date, however. I just advise eating these eggs right away and not storing them longer than a few weeks.

Now, bear in mind, this information is all for COMMERCIALLY farmed and sold eggs. Eggs you purchase from me? All laid within the week you purchase them, with very little exception (plus, I’ll tell you if they’re any older than a week, just so you know how long you can store them). Because eggs laid here are not washed with detergents (again, safe practice, so I’m not bashing commercial eggs) they will keep for 4-6 months in your fridge. And again, I ALWAYS advise for people to fridge their eggs. This is NOT the place to debate that… want your eggs to stay fresh as long as possible? KEEP THEM IN YOUR FRIDGE! It’s simple science and one of the many joys of modern refrigeration helping us live better. You also do not know how long commercial eggs were stored BEFORE being packed. It’s often very close to that Julian date, but that information is not provided and it could be a few weeks or more, depending on a few factors.

The best way to know your eggs are safe? Smell. If you can smell the egg, it’s usually not good. Rotten eggs smell like sulfur and fresh eggs have no smell. The float test in water is accurate, but it really takes a very rotten egg to float. Scent will tip you off first. Your white and yolk should also be nice and thick. Any thin albumen or flat yolk is a bad sign. But again… smell will tell you before sight. I would also steer clear of any cracked or discolored egg shells.

I really hope this helps. Feel free to SHARE this to help your friends stay informed! Please let me know if there is anything else I can cover to help clear up any questions or concerns on eggs. ❤️

02/14/2025

I have noticed a huge trend in people consuming large quantities of beef tallow, as well as insisting it’s good for your skin.

It may be wise to reconsider for regular use.

People on TikTok are claiming that beef tallow (animal fat) is an effective facial moisturizer that can help hydrate your skin and reduce acne, but dermatologists say it can do more harm than good.

11/22/2024

This is one of my most popular!