Thread: Tabac Soap

I suggest that you cut a small sliver off and stick it to the bottom of your usual bowl or cup and make your lather there.
As you accumulate more soap you'll quickly reach a point where you'll say here do I put them? . This way it's easy... They're dry and in there original boxes and you know what the heck they are.

Originally Posted by nessmuck

shake out excess water out of brush

This is key with any soap. I avoided soaps for the first year because I had not caught on to the fact that you have to shake the excess water out or you will just be building a weak lather on top of the soap puck and never really loading the brush.

Take a wet brush and start swirling it on the puck. You really can't go wrong. I have a puck and it is a very hard soap.

There are many ways to skin a cat. I just put some water on the puck while I shower, tip it out and load my brush in the Tabac bowl. I then lather on my face. Just wanted to say thanks for bringing up Tabac, reading this at work today made me really look forward to shaving with mine tonight. It was lovely as always...

Tabac is the easiest soap to lather for me by a mile. It's my favorite!

It's simple.....soak brush while showering. Give brush a gentle squeeze and lightly shake out excess water. swirl on top for 30 - 60 seconds until brush is creamy and loaded (I do this with the puck and brush parallel to the floor). Next, start building lather in your scuttle or directly on your face! Enjoy the mysterious aroma and unparalleled performance of tabac.

Like the other gentlemen said, it's very easy to lather. To be honest, I just got mine recently, one time I use a scuttle and lather there and the other right off the soap. Both work. Depends on my mood I guess and what equipment I'm using.

My puck soap came in a wooden bowl (D.R. Harris)
I build the lather in a ceramic latte mug (acquired from the coffee mug shelf, Much to wife's chagrin).

Step 1. Pour hot water on top of soap puck.
Step 2. Submerge lather mug in sink of hot water. (this is the poor-man's scuttle; warms the mug and keeps the lather warm through the whole shave).
Step 3. Place brush in mug to soak.

Let sit 5 minutes or so....

Step 4 remove mug and brush from hot water
Step 5. Shake excess water from brush
CRITICAL STEP 6. Pour tiny amount of water off top of soap puck into lather mug.
Step 7. Load brush with soap (20 left 20 right swirls)
Step 8. Build lather in lather mug....the water from the soap REALLY helps this effort.

As time goes on, you'll KNOW just the right amount of water to retain.

I love turning that foam into a rich luxurious shaving lather.

Good luck.

Works great face lathering, very easy to load the brush and build the lather. Probably my favourite soap in that price range.

Bob

I face lather Tabac all the time just load up the brush and lather it right on your face. As has already been mentioned, it doesn't take much to lather this stuff it's really good soap.

Tabac is the most forgiving easiest lathering soap I own. In addition it has great cushion and slickness.

When in doubt, use more product on the wet brush to start (swirl for a minute or more) and then slowly add water. You will see good results.