Thread: soapers'

When folks talk about shaving soaps they rarely mention how mild or strong a soap is. It's the guys with allergies and hyper sensitive skin who will report irritation. The qualities of a great shave soap don't include mildness or heavy duty cleaning capabilities.

Originally Posted by BobH

It is funny to hear ivory bath soap being called too mild and fit for a baby's delicate skin when you have shavers blowing big bucks on shave soaps that pamper their skin like you would want for a baby's bottom. What can I say, it's a puzzle to me.

Bob

S-hhhhhhhhh, you'll ruin our image ... Keep quiet about the kitties too

In all my years of experimenting with bath/shower soaps I have only encountered two that are worth a good bowel movement. Those are Dove Men Care and Kirks Castile in the green bar. Unfortunately Kirks in the green bar is no longer available. Both are stand alone soaps that deliver a boat load of thick slick lather with my hard well water.

The closest thing I have found to a shaving, facial, bath soap is Yardley of London Cocoa Butter soap.

https://www.amazon.com/Yardley-Londo...01IADZO1I?th=1

The ingredients are: sodium tallowlate, water, sodium cocoate, glycerine, cocoa butter, fragrance, shea butter, Vitamin E, salt, titanium dioxide, EDTA, iron oxide. Yellow 3, Red 3.

From a shaving standpoint, it is a tallow based soap with some titanium dioxide and iron oxide pigments to stabilize the lather. Cocoa butter and shea butter are good skin conditioners. This is an English milled bar, meaning it is a hard soap, but not triple milled hard. It has a nice smell and and produces a decent later.

It is certainly not as good the better soaps designed specifically for shaving, but if you want an inexpensive soap for bathing as well as shaving, this one will work. You can purchase two bars for $6.

Originally Posted by RayClem

The closest thing I have found to a shaving, facial, bath soap is Yardley of London Cocoa Butter soap.

https://www.amazon.com/Yardley-Londo...01IADZO1I?th=1

The ingredients are: sodium tallowlate, water, sodium cocoate, glycerine, cocoa butter, fragrance, shea butter, Vitamin E, salt, titanium dioxide, EDTA, iron oxide. Yellow 3, Red 3.

From a shaving standpoint, it is a tallow based soap with some titanium dioxide and iron oxide pigments to stabilize the lather. Cocoa butter and shea butter are good skin conditioners. This is an English milled bar, meaning it is a hard soap, but not triple milled hard. It has a nice smell and and produces a decent later.

It is certainly not as good the better soaps designed specifically for shaving, but if you want an inexpensive soap for bathing as well as shaving, this one will work. You can purchase two bars for $6.

Why does that not surprise me? When Yardley made shave soap it was excellent stuff if my vintage puck is any example.

Bob

I use Kirk's Castile coconut oil soap for body and what little hair I have left. Have used it for shaving it is about like William's IMO. Maybe if you grind then melt and pour add bentonite clay or fragrance, what about some glycerin? Wish you best of luck this.

Originally Posted by Alwaysbeencrazy45

I use Kirk's Castile coconut oil soap for body and what little hair I have left. Have used it for shaving it is about like William's IMO. Maybe if you grind then melt and pour add bentonite clay or fragrance, what about some glycerin? Wish you best of luck this.

I'm still thinking on this, kirks castle sounds close to what I'm trying to do, will hsve to give that a try

If you use distilled or softened water basic liquid green soap (the kind water treatment salesmen carry with them) is about the purist soap you can find to use as a base.