Lemongrass Exfoliating Chefs Goat Milk Soap Bespoke No.12 Blend with salt top

Chefs Blend Goat Milk Soap – No.12 BESPOKE Exfoliating Kitchen Hand Soap

No.12 Chefs Blend Goat Milk Soap is a purpose-built exfoliating hand soap for cooks and anyone whose hands regularly encounter oils, herbs, spices, soil, dough, grease, and stubborn everyday residue. Its distinctive dual-texture construction combines a rugged exfoliating surface of Pink Salt, Coffee, and Cornmeal with a smoother goat milk soap below.

Cedarwood, Lemongrass, Rosemary, and Basil essential oils create a crisp herbal-citrus aroma that feels naturally at home beside the kitchen sink. Fresh goat milk and Bogue’s broad base of more than twelve plant oils and butters balance the scrubbing surface with a conditioning cleansing base designed with frequently washed, hardworking hands in mind.

A Dual-Texture Soap Built for Working Hands

No.12 is not simply a regular goat milk bar with exfoliants mixed throughout. Its physical construction gives you two different cleansing experiences in the same soap.

The rugged exfoliating portion combines Pink Salt, Coffee, and Cornmeal for hands that need more physical scrubbing after cooking, gardening, or hands-on work. Move to the smoother portion of the bar when you want the conditioning goat milk cleanse without as much exfoliation.

That contrast is one of the defining ideas behind Chefs Blend: scrub where you need it, soften the cleansing experience where you don't.

Pink Salt, Coffee & Cornmeal Exfoliation

Kitchen hands encounter a surprisingly wide range of stubborn materials—from cooking oils and dough to garlic, onions, herbs, spices, and garden soil. No.12 uses three familiar physical exfoliants to create its hardworking textured surface.

Pink Salt contributes a coarse mineral texture, Cornmeal adds a distinctly grainy physical scrub, and Coffee contributes additional texture and the earthy botanical character that makes Chefs Blend immediately recognizable.

Together, they help mechanically loosen and scrub away stubborn surface residue and buildup from hands. This makes No.12 particularly useful when an ordinary quick hand wash doesn't feel substantial enough.

Lemongrass, Cedarwood, Rosemary & Basil

Lemongrass essential oil brings the bright citrus-green note that gives Chefs Blend its fresh aromatic opening. Rosemary and Basil continue the herbal character, while Cedarwood provides a warmer, woody foundation beneath them.

The result feels more like the botanical vocabulary of a kitchen garden than a conventional perfumed hand soap: citrus, fresh herbs, and wood.

Bogue uses pure pressed and steam-distilled essential oils rather than synthetic fragrance oils, allowing the aromatic character of No.12 to come directly from its botanical ingredients.

Made for Garlic, Onions, Herbs & Hands-On Cooking

Chefs Blend was developed around the realities of actually using your hands in the kitchen. Chopping garlic and onions, handling fresh herbs, working with oils and spices, kneading dough, cleaning vegetables, and preparing food can leave behind persistent residue and aromas.

The textured surface gives cooks a more substantial scrub when they want it, while the herbal-citrus essential oil blend creates a fresh aromatic experience at the sink. The goal is practical: help wash away food residue, surface oils, and the traces of meal prep before moving on to whatever comes next.

And despite the name, you don't need to be a professional chef. No.12 is equally at home beside the sink of the home cook, baker, gardener, grill master, artist, or maker.

Goat Milk & Barrier-Conscious Hand Washing

Cooks can wash their hands repeatedly throughout a single meal, which makes the complete soap formula especially important. No.12 balances its rugged exfoliating surface with fresh goat milk and more than twelve plant oils and butters selected to create a more comfortable cleansing experience.

Goat milk naturally contains lactic acid, while the plant-oil-and-butter base contributes to the finished bar's conditioning character. Together, they make Chefs Blend particularly relevant to a barrier-conscious approach to frequent hand washing: cleanse effectively when necessary without treating an excessively tight, stripped feeling as evidence that hands are clean.

The dual-texture construction also gives you control. Reach for the coarse side when stubborn buildup calls for physical exfoliation and the smoother side when your hands simply need another wash.

A Skinimalist Approach to Hardworking Hand Care

Frequent hand care doesn't necessarily require a collection of scrubs, cleansers, and specialty washing products. No.12 brings physical exfoliation and everyday cleansing together in one purpose-built bar.

That makes Chefs Blend a particularly practical expression of skinimalism: fewer products, but a soap thoughtfully formulated for the job it is expected to do. Keep it beside the kitchen sink, garden wash station, utility sink, or workshop basin and choose the part of the bar that fits the task at hand.

Built at the Bogue Soap Bench

The unusual construction of Chefs Blend reflects the practical formulation knowledge developed through generations of Bogue family soapmaking. No.12 isn't differentiated simply by changing the essential oil blend—the physical structure of the bar itself was designed around how hardworking hands are washed.

Made in small cold process batches in Ojai, the fresh goat milk, plant oils and butters, essential oils, and exfoliating materials are formulated into a bar that is cut and given time to cure before use. The result is one of the clearest examples of what Bogue means by a BESPOKE soap: the formula follows the purpose.

Ideal For

Home cooks • Professional chefs • Bakers • Grill masters • Gardeners • Artists & makers • Workshop hands • Frequent hand washing • Kitchen sink soap • Natural physical exfoliation • Coffee soap • Lemongrass soap • Hardworking hands • Barrier-conscious hand cleansing

Scrub When You Need It. Cleanse When You Don't.

No.12 Chefs Blend BESPOKE Goat Milk Soap combines a rugged surface of Pink Salt, Coffee, and Cornmeal with a smoother goat milk cleansing bar and the fresh botanical aroma of Lemongrass, Cedarwood, Rosemary, and Basil. From chopping garlic and working dough to harvesting vegetables and cleaning up after the grill, Chefs Blend was built for hands that actually get used.