Thread: Shaving with Bar Soap & Goat's Milk Soap!

I can see a new tide pod challenge coming on

well, after all the helpful posts here I've managed to get 2 shaves with very little irritation, just one pass wtg using all the tricks in the lathering video and paying close attention to angle and pressure, tomorrow I'm going to try relathering and doing a second pass wtg and see how it goes, if that goes well i guess I'll be ready for wd 40

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I happened to stop by a flea market in Lafayette, La yesterday and I picked up a bar of goat's milk soap from a lady who sells specialty soaps. It is amazing! Best shave ever. It is a wonderful creamy lather and the bar is corrugated for an even quicker lather.

Glad to hear it worked out for you. Even if you didn't like shaving with it, it is still good soap.

Originally Posted by JP5

Dishwashing gel and WD40 seems like a bit of a leap from bar soap. Either I lucked out with this soap, or I'm just not that discerning. l]

I don’t think you lucked out at all. Moreover, I would argue you ARE discerning. A good bar soap that’s hand made and not detergent based like nearly all mass produced soaps, should work just fine for shaving, and leave your face feeling softer to boot.

The only difference between your bar soap vs a shaving soap is some added ingredients to increase viscosity and lather... but then, i’ve used bar soap with more glide than many of my shaving soaps. I just got few bubbles. But who cares?

Well I do. All those bubbles in a good shaving soap are there to soften your beard and loosen the follicle for a shave with less pull. If you’re a man with fine scruff, that might not matter.

Of course a good shave soap also focuses on viscosity so your blade will run smoothly over your face. This could be argued as being more important to a traditional straight razor shaver but I will not generalize. Lol. But again, I’ve had bar soaps with more viscosity than any shaving soap/cream.

Seriously, with the exception of lather, I could see many handmade “bar soaps” being a great shave. It’s whatever works. Your face will let you know.

Originally Posted by earcutter

Seriously, with the exception of lather, I could see many handmade “bar soaps” being a great shave. It’s whatever works. Your face will let you know.

I wonder whether that’s what Van Gogh (the guy on earcutter’s avatar) thought when he tried an unknown soap just before he sliced off his ear.

Maybe it was just an accident with a cheap olive oil based handsoap from nearby Marseille that severely lacked in lubrication - and history had it wrong all along and Van Gogh just wanted to look nice and clean-shaven for Christmas 1888??


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