Quote Originally Posted by Annixter View Post
While I am no soap chemist, my research leads me to a contrary understanding of terminology and the benefits of tallow. We are talking about semantics and splitting hairs to an extent, but I'm here to discuss things to further my own knowledge and for fun. The fundamental factor that separates a shaving cream from a shaving soap is the percentage of sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide used.
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well, if you want to define martin de candre shaving soap as a cream be my guest. to me it looks like soap, smells like soap, lathers like soap and handles like soap. I'll continue to call it soap.

the high stearic acid content of this soap makes it come out pretty hard for an all- potassium soap. it's definitely not a cream.

it's funny how some things get repeated on the internet so many times that people start taking it as gospel despite the obvious.