Goat milk body wash ingredients: what each part of the label is for.

A goat milk body wash is built on water. That surprises people who expect the milk to come first, but a liquid wash needs a liquid, and on every wash label in our line, water is the opening word. What tells you about the wash is everything after it, and the order it comes in.

This post walks down the Goat Milk Oasis body wash label and says what job each group of names is doing. The milk itself, its fats, proteins and sugars, has its own post: what is actually in goat milk.

Where does the goat milk sit?

Third. The label opens like this:

1. Aqua (water)
2. Oryza Sativa Bran Oil (rice bran oil)
3. Goat Milk
4. Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Extract
5. Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract

Rice bran oil is pressed from the bran, the outer layer polished off a grain of rice to make it white. It is second on every wash label in the line, so the third line is where this one becomes its own scent. Coconut and papaya come right behind the milk, and those three are the hero ingredients on the product page.

Which ingredients do the cleaning?

From the sixth line down, the label runs through the cleansers: the part that makes the lather and carries oil and dirt off when you rinse.

• Sodium Cocoate is coconut oil that has been turned into soap.
• Ethylhexyl Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate and Cocamidopropyl Betaine are three more coconut-derived cleansers. The “cocoyl” and “coco” in their names are the coconut.

Mixed in among them are glycerin, hydrogenated olive oleate, an ingredient made from olive oil, and Prunus Armeniaca Seed Powder, which is ground apricot kernel, the seed inside the pit.

What are the smaller lines for?

Further down, a few names are there for the wash in the bottle rather than for the smell.

• Sodium Acrylate Copolymer is a polymer that sets how thick the wash pours.
• Phenoxyethanol is the preservative on this label. A water-based wash needs a preservative of some kind.
• Lecithin keeps the oils and the water mixed.
• Hydrogenated Olive Oil Unsaponifiables is the part of olive oil that does not turn into soap.

Where does the scent come from?

The label names its plant oils in the middle and toward the end: bergamot fruit oil, then Citrus grandis peel oil (pomelo), then patchouli, neroli from the bitter orange flower, frankincense and Roman chamomile. The words fragrance and parfum do not appear anywhere on this label. Each of our wash labels prints those same oils, so what sets Goat Milk Oasis apart sits higher up, in the milk, coconut and papaya near the top.

How it reads in the shower: coconut water and papaya first, goat milk and vanilla cream in the middle, cocoa and warm honey last. In the bottle the smell is faint. Under warm water it opens up.

Low on the list sit cucumber fruit extract, centella asiatica leaf extract, calendula flower oil, aloe leaf extract, rice extract, green tea leaf extract and sodium hyaluronate, a salt form of hyaluronic acid. Those lines are printed on every wash label in the line. The full Goat Milk Oasis wash ingredient list shows every name in the order it is printed.

Price, and the rest of Goat Milk Oasis

The wash is $15 for 16.9 oz. The Goat Milk Oasis bar soap is on the shelf too, $15 for a 2-pack, with a shorter list that starts with the milk. The Goat Milk Oasis lotion is coming soon.

Read any goat milk label the same way: find the milk, see what sits above it, and look for names where other labels say fragrance.