Thread: goat milk soap

Well I believe that partly the problem people have is not lathering correctly. With shaving soaps that are purposely ntended to be shaving soaps, they will lather more than you would even want with a hand soap. You have a hard time getting that soap off of your hands. Let's take the case of MWF for instance. A lot of people have the same complaint about it. However, if you, as I do, use a combination of mug lathering and face lathering you can get a very good lather from it. As I said before, it is not a thick poofy lather but I don't know why you would want that anyway.
To me though, the biggest concern about any soap, whether it is intended to be a shaving soap or not is the amount of fat that it has. I use a lye soap that I get from Ace hardware that is nothing but lye and food grade lard. It is unscented so it smells like the heavy of the lye, but it works quite well. I should say that it does not have a lingering odor that I can detect. I suppose that you could scent it and that would compensate for the lye smell but I don't really like scented soaps anyway. That's one reason why I got the lye soap. It's hard to come by a shaving soap that has no scent.

In general shave soaps, have at least, a minimum scent just to hide the crummy natural scent most soaps have. Personally, I like some scent as long as it washes off once you're done with it. I can't cotton to soaps that leave any lingering scent.

At any rate there are so many really outstanding shave soaps out there there is no reason to settle with any soap with even one negative characteristic.