Thread: Cosmetic Chemist reviews Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap

Originally Posted by Snuff

thanks for the link, I was shocked by the fact that there are such bad ingredients in it and there has even been ONE person who got facial psoriasis from it, that's one dangerous shaving soap ;-)

It doesn't quite say that. It says two of those ingredients, linalool and hydroxycitronellal, used in an aftershave caused facial psoriasis. The levels might have been much higher.

Originally Posted by simplepleasures

My shaving career can almost be characterized as a long quest to find products that perform without all the perfumes and other additives that give no useful added value to the task at hand.

I must disagree. From a strictly utilitarian POV that may be correct, but many traditional wetshavers simply revel in the heavenly scents afforded to us by this art to the point that it becomes a integral component of the shave. To lose the wonderful scents would be a partial loss of enjoyment of the ritual itself, and I do pity those who must use unscented products out of need rather than by choice.

But "No useful added value"? Not quite.

Respectively (of course),

Ryan