ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on May 24, 2012 14:02:27 GMT -6
Before I get going I just want to state that I have plenty of shave soap. But I also have insatiable curiousity.
On another forum a gent commented that his dad never used anything but bar soap for his shave.
So being the inquisituve person that I am I just can't leave it alone.
Yesterday I tried Irish Spring from the shower, and while I could use it in a pinch it was nothing I'd want to do if I had shave soap. Williams is better than IS IMO.
This morning I was lathering and hair drying a trimmed brush to see if I can get the bristles to split. I wasn't using shave soap, just hand soap. I was struck by how slick the lather from the hand soap was. So after doing a few lather/dry cycles decided to use the brush for a 3rd cycle and try the hand soap for shaving. The lubricicity was pretty incredible. The "stuff for the skin" was too, but it's a super fatted soap so I expected that. The stability while on the skin was lacking and I did add a few drops of glycerine. But if it's all I had I wouldn't feel too put out with this soap. On the brush the lather was fine and I had all sorts of lather left on the brush after the shave. In fact, I added a few more drops of water and had lots of fresh lather. Needless to say, I was quite surprised at this.
Shave soap it isn't, but for something to work so good for the shave that was never intended for shaving to me was pretty interesting.
BTW, I don't think it's made anymore. A year ago I found it, but I don't see it turning up anymore in a web search.
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Post by RocketMan on May 24, 2012 19:49:23 GMT -6
I would like to applaud your curiosity!!
I have tried a couple of hand soaps but didn't have too much good success with them. I have in a pinch just lathered up in my hands, smeared it on the old stubble and attempted a shave. Those pinch times were pretty uncomfortable shave experiences!!
You have me wanting to take a nice stiff boar to a few things hanging around the house now though!! I'll see what I can dig up.
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on May 24, 2012 20:54:10 GMT -6
Yeah, I e-mailed the company that made it. It was SBS bar soap with lotion made by DEB. Really nice stuff, but discontinued.
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Post by wchnu on May 25, 2012 0:16:40 GMT -6
Never tried that actually. I will see what others think of it. I know there will be rash of experiments now LOL
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Post by johna2231 on May 25, 2012 10:42:41 GMT -6
I like Bronner's hand soap and liquid soap in the shower. It's good soap, very slick. So I tried it as shave soap but it just wouldn't lather very well. I like the way SD is thinking though. Always (almost) fun to experiment.
John
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Post by razorx on Sept 3, 2012 23:46:49 GMT -6
Mystryglow Bar Soap Kenosha Wisconsin Found it when my wife and I were out riding up North over the border in a little craft store.
Indgredients: Olive Oil,Coconut Oil,Hemp Oil,Shea Butter Slick,protective abundant lather.
Good stuff at a very reasonable price,I'm not sure why I don't use it much,it probably bothers me that it doesn't say "shave soap" on the label or something stupid like that.Typing this has me decided I'm breaking it out and using it in the morning.
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Post by krissy on Sept 4, 2012 7:43:08 GMT -6
I have lathered more bath soaps than I care to admit. I'm not talking about commercially made bath soaps but cold process or hot process or any variation between that I have made or my soaping friends have made. And while they do produce an abundance of lather with different shave brushes. Some are more porous than others but they all lack in the stability of the lather.
But I don't shave with them.
Just for fun one day, and my husband thinks I'm NUTS because I'm a bath not a shower girl, (sorry for TMI) but I do like to lather various soaps while in the bath to compare them. I do this with the lather of various bath soaps (to rate them as a bath soap not a shave soap) as well as shaving soaps. I keep a mirror in my basket of "goodies" tub side and for the fun of it one day I worked up a nice lather with a bath soap a friend of mine had made. So I took that mirror and lathered my cheeks with it. I got one side lathered and then worked the other side. When I got done with the second side the lather on the first side had already dissipated. So I worked that side again only to have the other side dissipate. I really don't know why people say the lather is great from other artisan shave soaps when all they are is glorified bath soaps with extra castor oil and clay added. But while on the brush the lather looked decent enough, it's very deceiving.
However glycerin type bath soaps would make a different lather that would be more stable for shaving. Since it's similar to what other shave soap makers do use. There are various types of glycerin melt and pour bases being used as shaving soap that do get fairly good reviews. So if the bath soap was of this variety it may work as a shaving soap.
But yeah..... I'm also goofy and lather up bath soaps just to check out the type of lather produced. And I'll continue to do that just because I like to and it's fun.
But I used to shave with them but I didn't lather them up with a brush. I rubbed the soap on my legs enough to get a film coating and I shaved with that. It was enough to provide some slickness for the blade to pass across the skin. But that being said there is a difference between men shaving and women shaving. But my dad has never used a shave soap nor does he use the goo in a can. He likes to use regular bath soap, commercial bath soap (cries that he doesn't use mine) and rubs it on the skin like I use to with my legs I'm guessing. He's done that for years and he's not about to change now, so I've been told.
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Sept 4, 2012 15:01:56 GMT -6
(grinnin' like the Cheshire cat)
Krissy, I think it's the prepper in me that has me trying things like this. :-) Certainly it isn't required. If civilization ended tomaorrow I'd be one very clean shaven person for the rest of my life, and I'd have great facial skin.
I think I'd get along with your dad. I have no doubt his mindset is much like mine; well sort of. The difference is that he knew you when you were soiling your pants, and that gives you great inertia to be overcome. I don't know you in the regard. So for me you stand on your own w/o that inertia.
Does that make sense?
So far, what you make is really good IMO, even though I haven't posted anything yet. I never do just a superficial review.
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Post by razorx on Sept 4, 2012 16:32:03 GMT -6
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Post by wchnu on Sept 4, 2012 17:50:59 GMT -6
That Ivory ad is AWESOME.!!!! But I bet that is not the same soap we can buy today.
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Sept 4, 2012 21:10:49 GMT -6
IMO, it's the rare hand/bath soap that is useable. The real key is to have enough of the real stuff so as not to use hand soap. Thankfully that's fairly easy to do.
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Post by wchnu on Sept 4, 2012 21:41:25 GMT -6
IMO, it's the rare hand/bath soap that is useable. The real key is to have enough of the real stuff so as not to use hand soap. Thankfully that's fairly easy to do. Your right. Heck Williams is a dollar to a dollar and quarter a puck. No problem there.
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Post by RocketMan on Sept 5, 2012 23:09:42 GMT -6
I agree with folks that the price of a decent lathering soap is not an obstacle - so there is really no need to require using a hand soap.
but.....I do appreciate the curious nature myself.
That ivory advert is indeed awesome. I have never seen a description for using a bar soap as a shave stick to overcome the thinness of the lather. I am going to check it out once I get back home from holidays. (I picked up some razors around the city I have been visiting, but they can't be mentioned here!!! shhh!)
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Post by stljeff on Sept 6, 2012 16:22:47 GMT -6
(I picked up some razors around the city I have been visiting, but they can't be mentioned here!!! shhh!) Uh oh...not some of THOSE razors!
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Post by wchnu on Sept 6, 2012 19:05:42 GMT -6
(I picked up some razors around the city I have been visiting, but they can't be mentioned here!!! shhh!) Uh oh...not some of THOSE razors! Must be talking about carts.
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