Talk Me Out of This
Talk Me Out of This
I shaved with my Taylors Sandalwood soap yesterday. I love the scent, just as I love the scent of my TOBS Lavender soap. But the stuff is so freaking "palm-y." The lather simply doesn't compare with tallow soaps, and I already have AoS and DR Harris soaps to replace them.
So I think I'm going to consign my TOBS soaps to the shower, where I'll enjoy their scents for a short but happy time.
The AoS and Harris scents aren't as fun, so I'm a little reluctant to impose the death penalty/banishment to the shower. Anybody want to talk me out of it?
--Glenn
So I think I'm going to consign my TOBS soaps to the shower, where I'll enjoy their scents for a short but happy time.
The AoS and Harris scents aren't as fun, so I'm a little reluctant to impose the death penalty/banishment to the shower. Anybody want to talk me out of it?
--Glenn
Glenn, there are so many good ones available for shaving, and you enjoy the fragrance so well, I think you should go with the shower duty plan and make the best of it, while it lasts.
Gary
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Richard, you are describing something which I have noticed as well with the Taylor's soap (the old formula at least). I am at the end stages of using my second cake of this. When the hole appeared in the bottom I cut the remaining ring into strips (just last night as a matter of fact) and plastered them to the bottom of the bowl. It takes a bit of effort in these last stages to get the soap to melt and load onto the bristles, far more effort than when the cake was new. I think with these truly hard-milled soaps they can get even harder with use - why, I don't know. I suspect that contaminants in the water leach into the soap and further reduce it's lathering capabilities but who knows.rustyblade wrote:I was using my Taylor's lavender in the shower recently, up until it became really difficult to lather. It just seem to dry up and became really difficult to get suds out of. I had to chuck it and use Yardley Sandalwood instead.
I've also noticed that Tabac doesn't seem to have this problem. I don't think it's a truly milled soap but it performs excellently nonetheless.
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I think Chris has hit on the explanation. Minerals in the water gradually leach into the cake, hardening it even further. I experienced this hardening with my last cake of Taylor's Lavender. I tried to grate it, but it resisted the grater. It was as though it had been not triple milled, but five or six times milled. There must be something in the formula or milling of this particular soap that causes this phenomenon.
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And in the shower, this process was accelerated. Even sitting in a puddle of water in a damp environment it was like trying to lather a pebble.95% wrote:I think Chris has hit on the explanation. Minerals in the water gradually leach into the cake, hardening it even further. I experienced this hardening with my last cake of Taylor's Lavender. I tried to grate it, but it resisted the grater. It was as though it had been not triple milled, but five or six times milled. There must be something in the formula or milling of this particular soap that causes this phenomenon.
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