Thread: Are there any more good tallow triple-milled soaps - besides DRH, MWF, Tabac and C&S?

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

I've brought up lye soap before. Grandma' Pure Soap is the one I get from the Ace Hardware.
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Mike I know you got some and were going to try it and report back. I guess you didn't like it since I never heard anything else about it. It isn't a real lathery soap, much like Mitchell's but it is very slick. The one main problem I have is that it doesn't fit in the mug well unless you grate it. It has no fragrance added at all which I like. It's also very gentle on your skin.

It's not really a shaving soap - "not a real lathery soap" as you said yourself.

Originally Posted by STF

Is that shave soap?
It looks like a bar of soap.

No it's not a shaving soap but it is made of lye and lard. Since many of the better shaving soaps are are high in tallow or lanolin I figured I would give it a whirl. It has worked very well for me. Mainly I like that it doesn't have fragrance which I hate about many of the shaving soaps. I personally don't want to go around smelling like perfume for one thing but also my wife and son suffer from migraines which.can be brought on by scents. She can't even walk through the department stores near the perfume counter or it's down for the count.

Originally Posted by dimab

Green Mountain have stopped selling shaving soap

I didn't know that.!

Was a awesome soap, then. Loved water, weather hard or soft.

Paul. I could shower with it, but the smell of the tallow was too much to want to shave with. Did leave my skin feeling great, and hydrated.

I do occasionally shave with a lather made from a bar of goats milk, soap.

I see these bars of goat milk soap in the grocery store. I've been threatening to buy a bar of that to try it but just haven't done so yet.
I've heard people say that you can use that lye soap before hunting instead of buying the high dollar ani-scent soap. Lye is made from ashes which is what the American Indians used to rub on themself to kill scent before hunting so it does make sense.

Alum kills the bacteria that causes the stink we humans have.

Just dissolve some in a spray bottle, and hose yourself and clothes, before going huntin.

I think that's what the soaps and sprays mainly are anyway.

And another one bites the dust: Tabac has been reformulated and became vegetal
So now we are down to four:
D.R.Harris
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Williams Mug
Henri et Victoria

I liked how well Tabac worked, but hated the scent.

It smells exactly like " Oil of Olay ". A skin cream that my mother used to slather herself in.

Always made me feel ill in the guts, and so did Tabac.

Originally Posted by dimab

And another one bites the dust: Tabac has been reformulated and became vegetal

Can someone please explain why they are doing this?
Shaving soaps are targeting a very specific group of consumers, the wet shavers. And wet shavers love tallow soaps. So why are they doing it? For sure, I will never buy again tabac soap and I believe many wet shavers will do so. They only loose money.

Who knows why, I’m sure it has to do with new government Regs, but could be tree hugging peta hippies