Thread: A few vegan products

I love Mr. Taylor. I actually contacted Taylor of Old Bond a while back to verify the same info you provided. I totally forgot to post it. Hopefully soon I'll have more resources in the future.

I am planning on a little section on my website that will be dedicated to vegan friendly shave supplies.

Castle Forbes confirmed no animal products!

You can strop the straight on the palm of your hand.
Seen a clip on youtube of a guy doing that.

L'Occitane has a wonderful synthetic brush.
I'm also under the impression that their shave stuff is vegan.
Shaving & Skincare | L'OCCITANE en Provence | United States

Not too sure as I don't understand eliminating the use of naturally sustainable and biodegradable animal products in favor of non-biodegradable plastics. But that's neither here nor there. And L'Occitane packages mostly with Paper, Metal, and glass with minimal plastics so I'm on board. Plus their products perform quite well (at least the Cade shaving cream and ASB).

That, Mr bharner, is what I too, fail to understand. My sister is vegan. I told her that she is just favouring the plastics industry in favour of biodegradeable. I'm not anti-vegan, but I see a certain lack of common sense in aspects of the lifestyle. I'm sure there must be other options that I have not yet been told about though.


Mick

Originally Posted by bharner

L'Occitane has a wonderful synthetic brush.
I'm also under the impression that their shave stuff is vegan.
Shaving & Skincare | L'OCCITANE en Provence | United States

Not too sure as I don't understand eliminating the use of naturally sustainable and biodegradable animal products in favor of non-biodegradable plastics. But that's neither here nor there. And L'Occitane packages mostly with Paper, Metal, and glass with minimal plastics so I'm on board. Plus their products perform quite well (at least the Cade shaving cream and ASB).

I use L'Occitane products because if I get some of their Cade soap in my mouth, I can go ahead and shave, have a little meal of soap and still be a vegetarian.

Thank you wally for this thread.

This is actually really funny why I am here. I am a vegan who is interested in straight shaving due to a recent effort to reduce the amount of plastic I consume. No more pop bottles, no more baggys, lighters, candy bars, bags of chips, almond milk containers, and Vegan Soy Jerky. if you wrap your product in plastic, consider yourself on notice. Because of this I am done with plastic safety razor and am looking for alternative.

I don't think if you are vegan you have to go synth on everything as this is one of the first big Vegan/synth issues that I have had. I am leaning towards getting a synth brush since I feel that the good of changing from lots of plastic to a few pieces of plastic a very good trade off in the long run. I don't want another being to lose its life because of my "prefrences."

The movie Midway by Chris Jordan has been the final straw that broke me on the plastic issue, and, while I know that in this day and age it is too hard to live completely plastic free, I can do my best. Maybe I can find a used synth?

There are fine synthetic brushes available now. See Muhle, newest Omegas, H.I.S.. I would stay away from Parker, the one I bought was very disappointing. If I was to select one brush that could handle face or bowl lathering it would be the Muhle 23mm Silvertip Fiber.

Soaps are harder as you don't know the source of some of the sterates. But if you just want to avoid lanolin and tallow the ingredients list will be enough. Also, creams tend to be vegetarian more than hard soaps, but there are some vegetarian hard soaps, Klars, MdC.

Tony Millers vegan strop is first class. It will maintain the razor edge as good as animal based strops.

Finally, I personally favor plastic when there is no natural alternative. If the choice is plastic or an animal based product, I choose plastic every time. The problems with plastic can be dealt with, now or in the future. You cannot reanimate an animal.

Thanks for this info. I'll keep all this info in mind next time I'm shopping for soap or a new brush.

I have an Omega synthetic, it's very good.
People who are more in harmony with nature sometimes use animal products. They just don't have a profit motive, they hunt for survival and take what they need. So I'm kind of a moderate. Plastic can last for a lifetime that's why if I use something plastic or synthetic I don't consider it as a disposable item. I may use a leather belt, I just have what I need, I don't buy 10 belts. Thats one of the reasons for using a straight razor. So much plastic trash created by the "disposables". Thanks to all for the information on soaps, It's helpful.