Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
- Ouchmychin
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Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
Yesterday my stepson brought me a shaving scuttle. First one ever. I had no soaps to put in it, so today I surfed ebay for shaving soap priced from low to high. Going down the list, I ran into a cake of old stock AOS soap that was listed as discontinued tallow based, unboxed but in a velvet sack. I paid $15 for it because when I checked Amazon, they were going for $30. Hope I didn't get a counterfeit.
Ouchmychin (Pete)
Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
It's merely Valobra shave soap.
Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
Still a good price, Pete. A Valobra Shave Stick (50g) goes for close to $15.00 now, while the cake of AoS is almost twice that amount of soap.
- Murray
- Murray
Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
Similar thought went through my head, except that I left the "merely" out since I consider the various Valobra soaps outstanding.BPman wrote:It's merely Valobra shave soap.
B.
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- Ouchmychin
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Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
Is Valobra different from AOS soap? Is it just one of the versions made by them? Is it normally cheaper than some other formulation? I sure don't know much about AOS except is has gotten high praise here.
Ouchmychin (Pete)
Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
The old AOS soaps were indeed Valobra hard soap, and easily identified as such by the sweet undertone to all three scents caused by the clay content. Functionally they worked just as the Valobra branded stuff, but had nicer scents. Before we complain too much about the AOS price, remember that Czech and Speake use the same soap in their two offerings, both of which smell horrid and cost two arms and one leg per puck.
Chris
Chris
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Pierre-Simon de Laplace
Pierre-Simon de Laplace
Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
Pete, you did good. The price is reasonable.
Gary
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SOTD 99%: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, soaps & creams, synthetic / badger brushes, Colonial General razor, Kai & Schick blades, straight razors any time, Superior 70 aftershave splash + menthol + 444
Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
I know it's crazy but despite knowing the tallow AOS was made by Valobra, I feel the AOS gives me a better shave than the Valobra. I don't like the Valobra hard soap scents much.
Go ahead, have me committed .
Go ahead, have me committed .
Enjoying wet shaving, again.
jr/John
jr/John
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Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
I can't say much about the scent because it hasn't arrived yet. Edit: it arrived and is a beautiful glossy cake with an intense perfume scent. Not sure what it is but it reminds me of incense. I don't hate it but I haven't used it yet..
Ouchmychin (Pete)
Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
there are a lot of "vintage tallow" AOS soaps on ebay right now, problem is NONE are in a box.....
Hence the risk factor is interesting.
Hence the risk factor is interesting.
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Re: Snagged a Cake of AOS Tallow Soap
Mine came in a cloth bag. It was wrapped in cellophane and stamped AOS. I don't know if it is authentic, but it has a distinctive incense odor and shaves great. The best of any soap I have tried.
Ouchmychin (Pete)