Apothecandy

Apothecandy Our artisan goat milk soap and herbal products are handcrafted and made fresh in small batches. Yo

Inspired by science, nature, and magic Apothecandy creates beautiful, useful things for your body. Leiah Bauer is the herbalist and goat-whisperer behind Apothecandy, she combines her passion for plants and love of the forest with rich and creamy milk from her own herd of goats to create her line of forest inspired goat milk soap. The amazing colours and scents are created from natural materials t

o capture a moment in the seasons, from the smell of the early spring when the sun warms the buds on the balsam poplar and the golden resin begins to flow to the fading sunlight of the fall when the goldenrod and fireweed blooms. Apothecandy follows the seasons and ethically wildcrafts the botanicals that capture the story of the forest in her soap creating an aesthetic and aromas that are carefully crafted to transport the user to a memory or feeling. Our Products:
Many of our herbs are grown naturally or ethically wild-crafted here on our property or locally sourced. Great care and time is spent growing, harvesting, drying, infusing and creating our products. Our herbal products are handcrafted and made fresh in small batches. About the Herbalist:
I am a gardener, a maker, a do-er, a cook, a hot mess, and a herbalist. I began seriously studying herbs in 2012, completing a diploma program at Dominion Herbal College and then going on to complete an intensive 2.5 year Herbal Immersion program through Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine . Location:
My husband and I, our three daughters, and some dairy goats live on a little piece of heaven in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. We acknowledge that we are in Treaty 1 territory and in the traditional territory of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the MΓ©tis Nation. The landscape is rugged boreal forests and still displaying evidence of once being at the bottom of ancient lake Agassiz. My favourite time of year here is in the spring when the world begins to come alive with sounds and smells. Every time I step outside I breathe deeply, taking in the damp, musky, earthy herbal scent. My Inspiration:
Science, magic, and nature, forests, life, good food, love, and my children.

Have you romanticized the Moon lately?Each bar of soap begins with a nourishing blend of butters, oils, and creamy  goat...
05/22/2026

Have you romanticized the Moon lately?

Each bar of soap begins with a nourishing blend of butters, oils, and creamy goat milk. The design is carefully crafted using activated charcoal to provide a clarifying gentle exfoliation and create delicate swirls and craters. Scented with a balanced blend of lavender, ho wood, and cedarwood oils (and a little bit of magic).

Every full moon is one of a kind, trace your fingertips over the unique shadows, craters and valleys over the moons surface, an effect that can only be captured through small handcrafted batches.




Come and visit us this weekend in Ste. Genevieve! This is your last chance to see me and scoop up a few of my spring goo...
05/20/2026

Come and visit us this weekend in Ste. Genevieve!
This is your last chance to see me and scoop up a few of my spring goods. I'll have plenty of Green Witch Garden Scrub, Tomato Leaf Botanical Perfume, Lots of my locally made wool wash, the last of the April Showers goat milk soap, and a few fuzzy grass puppies for you to meet! 🐐🐐🐐

SEEDLING SALE + SPRING FEST
Sat May 23, from 10-3
Free event, all welcome!
The best little spring eco garden festival in SE Manitoba

Find 18 vendors with seeds, vegetable seedlings, herbs, native plants, perennials, mushroom kits, and dye plants. Local artisans such as goat soaps, pottery, blacksmithing, candles, wool goods, art prints, broom making and more! Live music, solar coffee truck, delicious baked goods, free garden workshops and demos all day. Door prize raffle. Meet your ecological farmers and visit a regenerative sheep farm.

Cash or card accepted.
New location this year at Ferme Fiola Farm, 50178 Mun Road 41E, Ste Genevieve

Co-hosted by Ferme Fiola Farm and Swallowtail Farmstead

More info at: www.swallowtailfarmstead.ca
Contact: hello@swallowtailfarmstead.ca


05/11/2026

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Apothecandy is made by Moms, today and every day!Find me at  in Winnipeg Manitoba today, happy Mother's day!
05/10/2026

Apothecandy is made by Moms, today and every day!

Find me at in Winnipeg Manitoba today, happy Mother's day!

Reading your reviews on my website is truly the highlight of my day. I'm just a busy little worker bee here, head down, ...
05/06/2026

Reading your reviews on my website is truly the highlight of my day. I'm just a busy little worker bee here, head down, long hours alone out in the woods and then a little nugget of joy pops into my life in the form of a review and makes all those long hours feel like such an honor.
Like this fresh picked piece of poetry about my natural deodorant.

"I have used mass market women’s deodorant and they would stain my clothes and the scent was weak and artificial. I switched to mass market men’s deodorant for something stronger and the tint of the stick again stained clothes and discoloured my underarms. I always needed to reapply partway through the day to keep from smelling myself. Since switching about 8 months ago the discolouration on my underarms has completely gone away, I never have to reapply, it does not discolour my clothes at all, and the smell is fantastic but not aggressive. I cannot recommend this deodorant more!"

I wanted to formulate an effective, gentle deodorant in an applicator with a good glide. Biodegradable, plastic free, no salts, no baking soda.
Little did I know that this would be one of my most challenging formulations yet!

This puppy took about a year and a lot of trial and error to get just right. I had some of my hardest working testers on this one, other farmers and small business folks gave their sweaty all to put it through its paces, moving fences for livestock on hot days and long summer market set up and tear downs. We came through smelling like a rose (well, not actually a rose, but a beautiful blend of distilled thyme, lemon, cedar, juniper, fennel, and a touch of patchouli essential oils and hydrosols). Because I don't know how to make anything simple I've infused my oils with home grown calendula and thyme for that extra je ne sais quoi!

Why these ingredients matter:
- zinc oxide and zinc ricinoleate: non-staining, protective odour absorbers!
Fun fact: Zinc Ricinoleate chemically fixes odour molecules that are formed during the bacterial decomposition of perspiration.

- Fullers Earth / Multani Mitti
Fun Fact: This light-coloured Multani Mitti clay is the result of decomposed volcanic ash. The name, Fuller's earth, comes

Holy moly it's Scattered Seeds week!What happened? What even is time?! Join me at the coziest market experience this wee...
05/04/2026

Holy moly it's Scattered Seeds week!
What happened? What even is time?!

Join me at the coziest market experience this weekend, it is truly a delight under the twinkle lights.
Bring your mom. Bring your friends. Bring your friends moms!

This is my last market in Winnipeg until the Fall and what a glorious chance to shop for your favorite goat milk soap and small batch skin care made right here in Manitoba.

To make this extra sweet I've got a couple tickets to give away.
Not only will you get the two tickets, but each of you can pick one precious soap of your choosing from my booth!

Here is what you need to do to enter:

Tag who you would like to bring with you to the market and tag which makers you are excited to shop from!

The usual stuff: follow me here at
And follow

This one is short and sweet.
I'll be choosing a winner TONIGHT at 9pm so make sure to spread the word to anyone who may want in on this speedy little giveaway!

Huge HUGE thank you to everyone who came out to see me at this weekends markets and placed orders on my website.My heart...
04/27/2026

Huge HUGE thank you to everyone who came out to see me at this weekends markets and placed orders on my website.
My heart is full and my body is sleepy 😴 πŸ’–

I packed and shipped all your orders this morning and I'm going to spend the afternoon staring at baby goats.

Come find me and the incomparable  today at  Portal 12!
04/26/2026

Come find me and the incomparable today at
Portal 12!

Heyo! Have you been on the fence about checking out  on Sunday?! Maybe you've never been, maybe you aren't sure, maybe y...
04/24/2026

Heyo!
Have you been on the fence about checking out on Sunday?! Maybe you've never been, maybe you aren't sure, maybe you just need a friendly little nudge from your neighborhood goat-whisperer in the form of 2 free tickets?

I'm not going to do the whole big giveaway shebang, just nice and easy like Sunday morning. I truly just want you to come and bring a friend and have the best time!

I will randomly pick someone from the comments, all I ask of you is that you spread the local love by telling me which other makers you would be most excited to check out at the pop up!
(Other than me of course) πŸ’β€β™€οΈ
Oh yeah, and please come say hi at the event!

You are all the bestest.
Can't wait to see your faces!

Winner will be chosen by noon tomorrow and receive a DM from me with a code for your passes. πŸ’–

πŸŒ§οΈπŸ’§ April Showers πŸ’§πŸŒ§οΈI live for those dark and musty days in the spring when the skies open up and bring desperately nee...
04/23/2026

πŸŒ§οΈπŸ’§ April Showers πŸ’§πŸŒ§οΈ

I live for those dark and musty days in the spring when the skies open up and bring desperately needed rain to the forest. You can smell the life being breathed back into the world. That musty, soil smell of petrichor and the cool freshness of water bring with it hopes, dreams, and a promise of growth. Change. It feels exhilarating.
(Plus it washes away all the gross dinginess of a long winter).

I wanted to capture that feeling, inspired by those first rains of the season.
This bar is a perfect way to refresh yourself for the day (and wash off your own gross dinginess!)

This bar starts, as always, with 100% goat milk from our own goats and coloured and scented with only botanicals and infused oils.
Drip, drip, drop little April showers features layers of draped deep home grown indigo and creamy white.

Scented with a custom blend of essential oils and home distilled hydrosols aiming to capture the rich, earthy, grassy, herbaceous aroma of Spring:
Copaiba Balsam, Mint Scented Geranium Hydrosol, Lemongrass, Ho Wood, Vetiver, Rosemary, Juniper, Lemon, Star Anise, and Turmeric Essential Oils.

Grab yours this weekend at
In Steinbach on Saturday
And at in Winnipeg on Sunday!





It's 900kms to Richer, I've got a full tank of gas, a bagged lunch, a truck full of goats, and I'm wearing sunglasses.Th...
04/23/2026

It's 900kms to Richer, I've got a full tank of gas, a bagged lunch, a truck full of goats, and I'm wearing sunglasses.

The story of how I fell too deep into a rabbit hole and dropped everything to take a road trip to add a small herd of heritage breed fibre goats to my farm. This tale was a tad too long for Instagram so follow the link in my bio to read all about it on my blog!

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Richer, MB

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