My wife and I were at market at the Round Barn just outside of Margaretville, or Roxbury depending on the direction you are traveling from. We usually go there for cheese and vegetables and sometimes meat. Today I found a stand, more like a table, where a woman was selling shaving soaps. As the market is rather small and the vendors/farmers are usually repeats this woman stood out as a new vendor. I may have been mistaken but I thought she said her son makes the soap, which now seems strange as the website for this company states Boston as its location, and the part of New York mountains I was in is a far "over 5 hour" cry from Boston.

Meantime I bought two of the shaving soaps (I believe there were 8 varieties): Seville and Summer Solstice. These are Glycerin products with some tallow and added scents. You can check out the full ingredients on their web site.

Truthfully I have never been able to work up a really thick lather with a glycerin product but I know others have.

The soaps were offered in wrapped paper (an extra $2.00 per for the screw top tin) so I ended up dropping $25.00 for the two that I bought (I went for the tins on both).

I just tried the Seville. It has a distinct classic barbershop smell to it. I got a semi decent fluid lather for my first pass but it laid down into a thick cream on my second attempt to later up for my upstroke passes.

It did leave me with a pleasant feeling and a not so overpowering smell.

Anyone else ever tried these products?