Thread: Homemade

Does anyone here make their own shaving soap or cream? I am wondering how difficult it would be to do. Any help or recipes would be appreciated.

I don't make my own but have altered some store bought soaps by adding oils and glycerin to them when melting them down in my soap dishes.
I don't think you will have trouble finding a basic recipe. A basic handsoap recipe from the net might be a place to start. Then all you have to do is keep tweaking the recipe as your knowledge level increases to make it more shave friendly.
I hope you have a lot of fun playing with ideas and formulas.

Ask and ye shall receive...

A recipe was posted not too long ago in another thread:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/soaps...ml#post1081891

I don't but they are opening a shop that sells home made soaps across the street from my restaurant. She says they are going to have a wide variety of shaving soap and products.

From reading the wiki, I found a couple good resources:

Redneck Shaving Soap (melt & pour) - Straight Razor Place Wiki

and

Shaving Melt And Pour Base

Buying a base and adding additional ingredients to suit your personal preference seems like an easy way to go (and what I'll probably end up doing once I get a little more familiar with different soaps).

From what I understand it is not hard to do. If Tyler Durden can do it anyone can.

Originally Posted by ccase39

If Tyler Durden can do it anyone can.

You'll just need to pull a night raid on a liposuction clinic!