Thread: Taconic soaps

Daughter bought me two types for Father's day. The Eucalyptus Mint, and their Lime. The Eucalyptus Mint is VERY fragrant, with a smell reminiscent of Vicks Vaporub. It gets your attention in a hurry, and really wakes up the sinuses. More importantly the stuff lathers like Mentos in Coke. Normally, with tallow soaps, I will rinse my brush and relather between passes. With this soap I just went back to the scalp and put on a fresh coat. I probably could have gotten three passes out of a 20 second "load", and I am going to try it with tonight's shave. I can see these tins lasting quite some time.

Thanks for the mini review of the Taconic soap, sounds good. When you say rinse your brush between passes do you mean rinses like most do at the end of a shave?

Bob

Yes. I literally dunk it in the water shake it out and relather all over again. With previous soaps there was never enough loaded to cover my whole head a second time, so I just figured that starting fresh, though a tad wasteful of the soap on the brush, was a better option for a Beginner, in terms of being consistent with one's lathering. With this stuff, I am going to try and load once tonight and just go for a full shave. Three passes and no relathers. I'll keep you posted.

Soap is glycerine based, though they make a point of mentioning that it is vegetable in origin for those sensitive to that sort of thing.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. It is whatever works for you. I face lather and do 4 passes. Normally I only load once and rinse when finished.

Bob