I've been asked more than once why we don't just buy colostrum powder and reconstitute it like most skincare companies do. The question makes sense from a business perspective—it would be easier, cheaper, and far less labor-intensive than milking our own goats and processing colostrum within hours of collection.
But it would also produce an inferior product, and I'd rather explain why we do things the hard way than sell something that doesn't deliver what I promise.
The Difference Fresh Makes
Colostrum is alive with biological activity. The growth factors, immunoglobulins, and lactoferrin that make it valuable for skin are proteins—complex molecules that begin degrading the moment they're exposed to heat, light, or time. Commercial colostrum powder has been spray-dried or freeze-dried, processed for shelf stability rather than biological potency.
Is there still value in powdered colostrum? Probably some. But the most fragile and arguably most valuable compounds—the growth factors—are proteins that don't survive industrial processing intact. What you're left with is colostrum in name but not in function.
On our Washington State farm, the colostrum that goes into our cream is harvested fresh and processed with the urgency that living ingredients demand. We're not reconstituting something that sat in a warehouse. We're working with ingredients that were produced this season, from goats we know by name, in conditions we control completely.
Traceability You Can Trust
Here's something the "clean beauty" industry doesn't want you to think about too hard: most companies have no idea where their ingredients actually come from. They buy from suppliers who buy from suppliers who buy from farms they've never visited. The "natural" colostrum in your expensive serum might have traveled through a dozen hands before reaching your face.
I can tell you which goat produced the colostrum in any batch of our cream. I can tell you what she ate, how she was cared for, and exactly how long elapsed between milking and processing. This isn't marketing—it's the reality of running a small family farm where ingredient quality isn't a department. It's everything.
Our goats aren't stressed by industrial farming conditions. They're not treated with routine antibiotics or hormones. They live the way goats are supposed to live—browsing, playing, being goats. And that matters, because stress hormones and pharmaceutical residues end up in milk. What goes into the animal comes out in what she produces.
Why Small Batch Matters
There's a reason we'll never be Beekman 1802. Scaling colostrum production while maintaining freshness is essentially impossible. You can't harvest fresh colostrum from thousands of goats across multiple facilities and still process it with the speed that preserves biological activity.
So we stay small. We produce what our herd can provide. And we accept that our Colostrum Cream will never sit on Ulta shelves, because the moment we pursued that kind of volume, we'd have to compromise on everything that makes it work.
For some customers, this is frustrating. They discover our products, fall in love with the results, and wish they could find us at their local Target. I understand that frustration. But I'd rather disappoint people by being hard to find than disappoint them by selling something that doesn't work.
The Trust Factor
When you buy skincare from a massive corporation, you're trusting their supply chain, their quality control, their commitment to ingredient integrity. Given how often "clean" products turn out to contain things they shouldn't, that trust seems increasingly misplaced.
When you buy from us, you're trusting a family that has staked our livelihood on doing this right. Our reputation isn't managed by a PR department—it's built one jar at a time, by products that either work or don't.
The colostrum in our cream came from our goats, on our farm, processed by our hands. That's not a tagline. It's just the truth.
