No.23 Calendula is one of Bogue Milk Soap's original herbal goat milk soap recipes—a moisturizing botanical bar made with fresh raw goat milk, olive oil slowly infused with organic Chamomile and Calendula, organic Rosehips, Calendula petals, and pure essential oils.
Chamomile, Clary Sage, and Myrrh essential oils give the bar its soft floral-herbal aroma, while fresh goat milk and more than a dozen plant oils and butters create the rich, creamy lather that has made No.23 a longtime choice for dry-feeling skin.
What makes Calendula particularly distinctive, however, happens before the soap reaches the pot. We prepare an herbal oil infusion specifically for the formula, allowing Chamomile and Calendula to become part of the bar from the beginning rather than simply decorating the finished soap.
Long before botanical extracts became a skincare trend, herbs were infused into oils as a practical way to incorporate plants into traditional body care. We continue that approach in No.23 by slowly steeping organic Chamomile and Calendula in olive oil before the infused oil becomes part of the soap formula.
It is a slower way to formulate, but it reflects how we think about goat milk soap: the milk matters, and the complete formula matters too. The herbal-infused olive oil works alongside fresh goat milk and our blend of more than a dozen plant oils and butters rather than relying on one headline ingredient to define the bar.
Calendula isn't simply sprinkled across No.23 for decoration. The formula brings together infused Calendula and Chamomile, organic Rosehips, fresh raw goat milk, plant oils and butters, and pure essential oils. Calendula petals finish the bar and make each hand-cut piece slightly different from the next.
As botanical skincare has returned to the spotlight, ingredients such as Calendula and Chamomile increasingly appear on the front of skincare packaging. For us, the more interesting question is not whether a botanical is fashionable, but how it is actually incorporated into the formula.
No.23 answers that question visibly. The herbs begin in the infusion, the infused olive oil becomes part of the cold-process soap, and Calendula petals remain visible in the finished bar. The result is botanical skincare defined by formulation and process rather than botanical language alone.
No.23 layers its botanicals rather than asking a single ingredient to carry the entire formula. Chamomile and Calendula begin in the infused olive oil, organic Rosehips add another botanical element to the soap itself, and Calendula petals finish the surface of each bar.
That combination gives Calendula its unmistakable apothecary character. The slight variation from one hand-cut bar to another is also part of the product rather than something we try to engineer away—the visible botanicals are a reminder that the finished soap began with actual plants and was made in small batches by hand.
No.23 gets its aroma from Chamomile, Clary Sage, and Myrrh essential oils. Together they create a gentle floral-herbal scent with the warm, earthy depth of Myrrh—a natural aromatic complement to the Calendula and Chamomile at the heart of the recipe.
We use pure essential oils rather than synthetic fragrance oils to create the scent of this bar. That distinction isn't always obvious from the front of a soap label, even when a product is described as natural, botanical, or handmade. We explore what those terms actually mean—and what to look for on an ingredient label—in our Botanical Journal guide, Essential Oils vs. Fragrance Oils in Soap.
The botanical story of No.23 sits within a moisturizing goat milk soap formula. Fresh raw goat milk, infused olive oil, and our broader blend of plant oils and butters work together to produce a creamy lather and comfortable after-wash feel especially appreciated when skin tends to feel dry.
This is also why we resist reducing the bar to a single ingredient benefit. Calendula matters. Chamomile matters. Goat milk matters. But the character of the finished soap comes from how those ingredients interact with the oils, butters, botanicals, essential oils, cold-process method, and curing time.
No.23 has a particular place in the Bogue story because it comes from the herbal soapmaking tradition that began with Grandma Helen Bogue. The connection between generations isn't simply the age of the recipe—it is the knowledge of how the recipe is actually made.
Techniques such as preparing botanical oil infusions, judging a cold-process batch, working with fresh goat milk, balancing plant oils and butters, and allowing soap sufficient time to cure are forms of practical knowledge learned at the soap pot. They are difficult to communicate through an ingredient list alone.
Today, terms such as botanical skincare, slow beauty, and maker-led beauty describe a renewed interest in products with visible ingredients, understandable processes, and people behind the formulation. No.23 predates that vocabulary. What has continued is the method: herbs infused into oil, fresh goat milk in the soap pot, Calendula petals on the finished bar, and another generation making the recipe.
The process behind No.23 is part of what distinguishes it. Chamomile and Calendula are first infused into olive oil. That botanical oil becomes part of the cold-process formula alongside fresh goat milk and the larger plant-oil-and-butter blend. Organic Rosehips and essential oils add further botanical complexity, and Calendula petals finish the surface before the bars are cut and given time to cure.
It is not the fastest way to make a bar of soap. It is simply the way this particular formula makes sense to us.
No.23 Calendula brings together fresh goat milk, Chamomile and Calendula-infused olive oil, organic Rosehips, Calendula petals, and Chamomile, Clary Sage, and Myrrh essential oils in a botanical formula shaped by knowledge passed from one generation of soapmakers to the next.
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Chamomile Organic Goat Milk Soap- Moisturizing Calendula No.23 Blend
Essential oil and Infused olive oil of Chamomile & Calendula add botanical moisturizing qualities
Raw goat milk, organic coconut (cocos nucifera), olive (olea europaea), sustainable palm (elaeis guineensis), grapeseed (vitis vinifera), rice bran(oryza sativa), castor(ricinus communis), jojoba(simmondsia chinesis), safflower(carthamus tinctorius), sunflower Hi Oleic(Helianthus Annus), kukui(Aleurites moluccana) & cocoa butter(theobroma cacao), infused olive of calendula(Calendula Officinalis), pure essential oils of, chamomile(Chamomilla recutita)clary sage & myrrh. rose hips powder, calendula petals
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