DONT GIVE UP ON GLYCERINE SOAPS! I love tallow and glycerine soaps. Depends on mood and razor. So don't give up forever on glycerines - come back to them when you are bored with those awesome tallow soaps and want strong scents, slick later and close shaves.

Definitely try QED glycerine soaps - Wild Orange is my favorite, but Limes, sandlewood and many others are great. All essential oil creations and just awesome performance, and I find them very protective.

HBS is quite nice too - my favorite so far is pina colada though I like old spice too. These are closer to MB but I like them a tad more. The QED is really different I think.

As for tallow, my favorites are (this week):

DRH Arlington, AOS lemon, C&S 88, Penhaligons EF (followed closely by many many others).