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

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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