Buying soap for the scuttle - Stearic Acid might be the way to go for warm lather
I think I've been more interested in this than most, because I started "scuttle shaving" right out of the gate, but I've been trying to figure out why some soaps absolutely thrive when heated and others become a shell of their cold-shave selves.
I'm not sure how I didn't notice this before, because I buy both tallow and vegan soaps and love both. But when I separated all the soaps (out of my collection of forty or so) that give me the best warm lather shave, they were 100% stearic acid based and not tallow. Now, this ain't science, this is just trial and error, but I was surprised.
I have a lot of tallow soaps that are my all-time favorites and for a cold shave, they perform as good as any other soap in my house. But a few of them (some dramatically) vanish when they get near heat.
Anyway, just some observations. I'm gonna start really giving my tallow soaps a chance in the scuttle to try and prove my theory wrong. We'll see!