Thread: hard soaps for sensitive skin

Originally Posted by dmnc

Is the Lea a hard or hardish soap? Really like the hardish italian soaps, just want some different things in rotation. Variety being the spice of life.

The Lea is about the same as Valobra - maybe a little harder. I put both in stick form and face lather so cannot comment upon bowl behavior.


rs,
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Its a tough thing to isolate a product if you have this issue. I would look for a soap that had the least amount of additives and scents. Most soaps are a blend of many different types of fats, caustics, stabilizers, fragrance and or essential oils etc. Its going to take some deductive reasoning. lets say you tolerate a soap that has say tallow and coconut oil you might have to differentiate say what else does another similar soap have that might be the culprit. You mentioned Tabac bothers you, well that soap has a lot of fragrance components to it bergamot, neroli, lavender , tobacco, oakmoss and vanilla. Thats a lot to consider. Also make sure the reaction you are getting is not from maybe your after shave or any other post shave products you might use this could get complicated you have to simplify your process to come to a conclusion.

Was using MWF quite a bit, thinking that the razor rash was down to subpar lather. Tried face lathering on a day when I didn't need to shave. Made lovely lather and face burned lightly. This is my new soap test. No shave, face lather and leave on for few minutes.

Originally Posted by dmnc

Valobra is easy to find on amazon. Palmolive stick have tried and was also not good. Worse than either Tabac or MWF.

Is the Lea a hard or hardish soap? Really like the hardish italian soaps, just want some different things in rotation. Variety being the spice of life.

dmnc,
The Lea I use, made in Spain, comes in a hard puck in the wooden bowl. The soap lathers well, has a clean and woodsy fragrance, and works well for my sensitive skin. I liked the soap enough to order another puck, because you never know when the world will come to an end.

Not sure I saw Poraso white suggested that has oats and green tea extract I believe and that cooling sensation after the second application for the 2nd pass. Just a thought. I have seen a few post where people are not happy with MWF but I so far have had great results from the Fat!