The First Soap

**outback** · 09-26-2017, 02:37 AM

VDH, the pink one.
It worked great, but I couldn't handle the smell, and it over moisturized my skin. I used it twice, and changed to VDH Luxury. Its been kept in rotation ever since.

**thebigspendur** · 09-26-2017, 02:51 AM

Well, back in those days they hadn't invented soap yet. As a matter of fact they hadn't invented the straight yet either. As I recall for my 14th birthday I got a chunk of Obsidian and my Pa told me to chip it into something to shave with.

Unfortunately my friend Moses stole it saying he was going up into the hills and needed something to carve some stone with.

**400E** · 09-27-2017, 01:21 AM

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Well, back in those days they hadn't invented soap yet. As a matter of fact they hadn't invented the straight yet either. As I recall for my 14th birthday I got a chunk of Obsidian and my Pa told me to chip it into something to shave with.

Unfortunately my friend Moses stole it saying he was going up into the hills and needed something to carve some stone with.

I think Moses may have also needed that obsidian for a little surgery. Ouch!

**Benz** · 09-27-2017, 03:21 AM

Oh boy. It was 1970, and I turned 14. Dad gave me a can of Old Scheiss goo. After that was gone I got my first puck of Williams and stuffed it in an old coffee mug. If the mug was running low and I couldn't get to town, I would toss in a chunk of Ivory. Brush was a beat up hand me down synthetic from a great-uncle, razor was my Grampa's straight, and the strop was an old Russian horse hide.

**jmercer** · 09-27-2017, 04:19 AM

First hard shave soap was Col Conk Amber with Conk mug & brush on my first SR shave with a factory sharp Dovo 6/8 Conk. Ouch!

Gillet Foamy or Palmolive I think for first shaves with injector razor, early sixties.

**neehooya** · 09-27-2017, 03:23 PM

Mine was Old Rusty Trusty Old Spice and Palmolive soap.

**sudoaptget** · 09-26-2017, 05:09 PM

colgate soap puck and was as bad as williams.

**tcrideshd** · 09-26-2017, 06:27 PM

cant remember which was first,, Old Spice puck or the Burma shave, with the lousy Old Spice shave brush. it was so long ago its hard to tell but that's what I used for the longest time come along about 1980, I tried Palmolive and then used it till I got to finding about the good stuff. but the Palmolive was , is good stuff Tc

**petercp4e** · 09-26-2017, 08:03 PM

I think the first canned goo was Gillette Foamy around 1969.
Without a doubt the first puck of shave soap was Williams.

Pete <:-}

**CamMorris** · 09-26-2017, 09:12 PM

Col. Conk Bay Rum! still have a couple of pucks in the cabinet! Works good, smells good, and price was reasonable!

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