Honey Sweetie Acres is a Two-Time Winner of the American Dairy Goat Association National Bath & Body Care Competition held yearly at the Annual Convention.

In 2015, Honey Sweetie Acres Clove Nutmeg Goat Milk Soap won “BEST OF SHOW”.  In 2019, Honey Sweetie Acres Unscented Goat Milk Soap was named “BEST OF SHOW” yet again.  The best news?  Our unscented goat milk soap is the base recipe for ALL of our soaps, including our fragrance and essential oil soaps.  Superior moisturizing, lather with a hardness that lasts and lasts and does not wash away.

LEAPING BUNNY CERTIFICATION

Leaping Bunny is the corporate standard for preventing cruelty in using animals to test cosmetics and household products.  Leaping Bunny Certification requires us to use only those suppliers who commit to producing raw materials (cosmetic/household) without ever engaging in animal testing. We use many suppliers to obtain organic oils, organic butters, extracts, essential oils, and product bases.  We take the sourcing of materials seriously, and this corporate standard assures our customers we have taken action.

Ethical Bunny Approved and Recommended

Ethical Bunny is a US based Blogger, who focuses on making sure consumer products are cruelty free, by ensuring animals are well cared for and that others are removed from cosmetic testing.  We are Ethical Bunny approved, of which being Certified Humane is a huge part.

EWG Verified

EWG or Environmental Working Group has a program that verifies that a product is clean and free of egregious materials and environmental chemicals.  We submitted five of our unscented soaps for review in early 2019.  After a rigorous review process, we are now EWG Verified on our unscented soaps which is very important, as the recipe in all our soaps is identical to our unscented.  The only difference otherwise is the fragrance or essential oil used to scent the soap

Advanced Certification in Soap Making

Honey Sweetie Acres is among only a handful of soap makers in Ohio certified by the HSCG. We’ve met the industry-wide standard of excellence in handcrafted soap. Our soap has been evaluated by HSCG peers and passed two strenuous written examinations and the soap evaluation with flying colors in May of 2014. Certification is not required in the soap-making industry…..but we feel it is essential when offering products for personal use.

Honey Sweetie Acres is a BBB+ certified business.

This certification means we are dedicated to proper business standards, business ethics and the customer comes first.

Professionalism & Awards

When it comes to organic skincare, Honey Sweetie Acres does not just “talk the talk”….we join, promote, and learn from organizations that will help us stay at the forefront of premium and safe ingredients.

Career experience in the chemical industry and chemistry education enables us to understand our products intimately. While chemistry knowledge isn’t required to make soap or lotion, it is a plus in terms of formulating and discerning potential production issues. We can READ the “Certificate of Analysis” that accompanies raw ingredients from the manufacturer and we can recognize when a non-ideal ingredient is present.  Many soap-makers will file this certificate but could not tell you what is on it or what the numbers mean.  We can.

Our products are produced in a dedicated production building just a few miles from the farm.  We outgrew the building we had built on the property in 2020.  Proper ingredient handling, storage, sanitation, and safety are part of our daily routine

Top 10 CertClean Awards

Launched by CertClean, the Clean Beauty Awards recognizes the best personal care & beauty products, created without the use of known harmful chemicals, from around the world.

A yearly competition is held to highlight the best brands.  In 2020, Honey Sweetie Acres made it into the top 10 Finalists in the Best Facial Cream category with our Goat Milk Facial Cream and we were also was a top 10 Finalist in the Best Body Wash with our Unscented Goat Milk Soap.

We are happy to play a small role in the mission is to accelerate the growth of clean beauty in the United States and Internationally.

Global Health & Pharma Magazine Natural Body Care Award

We were very pleased to receive the Global Health & Pharma Magazine Natural Body Care Award for the Midwest United States.  These awards are to highlight those businesses and professionals who remain dedicated to making products free of chemicals. GHP scrutinizes a nominee’s performance over 12 months as a prelim to the award.  We are honored to have been chosen in 2018.

Global Health & Pharma Magazine Natural Body Care Award

We were very pleased to receive the Global Health & Pharma Magazine Natural Body Care Award AGAIN in 2019 for the Midwest United States.  These awards are to highlight those businesses and professionals who remain dedicated to making products free of chemicals. GHP scrutinizes a nominee’s performance over 12 months as a prelim to the award.  We are honored to have been chosen for two years straight in a row!

Best of Cincinnati

Every 3 years, Cincinnati Magazine canvasses the southern Ohio region looking for the best natural skincare products. In November of 2014, Cincinnati Magazine gifted us with the Best of the City Award for Handcrafted Soap.

PRODUCT TESTING

As part of Good Manufacturing Practices, we periodically have our Goat Milk Lotion tested to confirm that that is free of any form of contamination.  Making Goat Milk Lotion at home is a wonderful hobby, but when you start sharing it with persons outside your home, like selling at farmers markets, stores and online, that falls under the FDA’s purview.

We want to make sure that our products are safe to use. We have our products tested at an ISO-accredited, third-party testing lab for the presence of bacteria, yeast, and mold. As you can see in the lab reports, our products have tested clean, with no detection of microorganisms.