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Shaving Soap

 

 

I don't think it will come as a surprise that for a traditional shave you use either soap, cream or foam.

If it is to be kept completely traditional, foam on a can is out of the question, and you are left with the choice of soap or cream.

A traditional shaving soap was based on tallow and thus hard as a bar of hand soap. You could use a hand soap for shaving, but the shave wouldn't be comfortable. The reason being that there is a difference between hand- and shaving soap and the difference lies in the foam they create (known as lather when shaving). At first it might seem that a hand soap creates a lot of foam, but the foam will disappear quite quickly, and would you are looking for when shaving is a foam that stays for as long as possible as it protects the skin during shaving.

 

Today you can't find many soaps where tallow is the main ingredient, most manufacturers has exchanged the tallow with glycerin which is cheaper to use and easier to handle during the manufacturing process - even though I think the first reason is the most important.

 

My experience so far is, that if you are using a DE-razor, it doesn't matter if you are using soap or cream, but if you are using a straight razor a hard soap seems to work better. The lather from a hard soap makes a better cushion for the blade than the lather from a cream - strangely enough.

 

 

 

Soap

Proraso Shaving Soap with Aloe and Green tea Proraso Aloe soap.JPG (361896 byte)  

 

Truefitt & Hill - Luxury Shaving Soap T&H Luxury soap.JPG (794620 byte)  
Palmolive Classic Shaving Stick Palmolive stick.JPG (548222 byte)  
Tabac Shaving Soap Tabac Soap.JPG (98268 byte)  
Arko Shaving Stick Arko.JPG (222069 byte)  
La Toja Shave Stick La Toja.JPG (96790 byte)  
Mountain Sky - Olde Windsor Traditional Shaving Soap

(discarded as a shaving soap, the lather is to poor)

Mountain Sky.JPG (93151 byte)  
Fitjar - Fjellheim fitjar fjellheim.JPG (495953 byte)  
Speick Shave Stick speick.JPG (450668 byte)  
Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap mwf.JPG (492329 byte)  
Ralph Lauren - Safari for Men Shaving Soap safari.JPG (463658 byte)  
Williams - Mug Shaving Soap Williams Soap.jpg (347688 byte)  
Mama Bears - Bay Rhum Shaving Soap Mama Bears Bay Rhum.jpg (61700 byte)  
Taylor of Old Bond Street - Traditional Luxury Shaving Soap

(in bowl from Tiger)

Taylor - Soap.jpg (62250 byte)  
Cyril R. Salter - Shaving Soap (in bowl from Tiger) Cyril R Salter.jpg (54668 byte)  
Nanny's Eucalyptus & Tea Tree Shaving Soap nannys eucalyptus.JPG (286668 byte)  
Nanny's Soft Shaving Soap - Citrus Zinger nannys citrus.JPG (83512 byte)  
Nanny's Soft Shaving Soap - Rose Geranium nannys rose.JPG (79181 byte)  
Nanny's Shaving Soap - The Herby One nannys the herby one.JPG (298568 byte)  
Nanny's Shaving Soap - Ice and a Slice (with goat's milk) nannys_ice_and_slice.jpg (422522 byte)  
Nanny's Shaving Soap - Exotic nannys_exotic.jpg (416116 byte)  
Nanny's Shaving Soap - Lemony Lime (with goat's milk) nannys_lemon_lime.jpg (430897 byte)  
Sir Irisch Moos Shave Stick SIM.JPG (296956 byte)  
Erasmic Shave Stick Erasmic.JPG (305514 byte)  
D.R. Harris Arlington Shaving Soap DR Hasrris Arlington.JPG (342097 byte)  
D.R. Harris Marlborough Shaving Soap DR Harris Marlborough.JPG (355160 byte)  
Ogallalla Bay Rum & Limes and Peppercorns Shaving Soap Ogallalla BR+L+P.jpg (61847 byte)  
Ogallalla Bay Rum & Sweet Orange Shaving Soap Ogallalla BR+SO.jpg (63114 byte)  
Culmak Shaving Soap culmak.jpg (245687 byte)   
Geo. F. Trumper Eucris Shaving Soap eucris.jpg (322337 byte)  
Kent Shaving Soap kent soap.jpg (346465 byte)  
Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet Shaving Soap Penhaligons Blenheim soap.jpg (330521 byte)  
Badeanstaltens barbersæbe Badeanstalten.jpg (91678 byte)  
Munkholm barbersæbe Munkholm.jpg (89230 byte)  
RazoRock Caprician Lemon RazoRock Caprician Lemon.jpg (76368 byte)  
RazoRock Mughetto di Bologna razorock_mughetto_di_bologna.jpg (76591 byte)  
Derby Shave Stick Derby Shave Stick.jpg (670507 byte)  
GZD Shave Stick GZD Shave Stick.jpg (601214 byte)  
Queen Charlotte Soaps Esquire QCS - Esquire.jpg (383595 byte)  
The Art of Shaving Lemon AOS - lemon.jpg (387146 byte)  
Lea Shave Stick Lea stick.jpg (278894 byte)  
Palmolive Classic Shave Stick (2015 formula) Palmolive Classic_2015.jpg (349332 byte)  
Proraso Sandalwood Shaving Soap Proraso Sandalwood soap.jpg (367752 byte)  
Floris JF Shaving Soap Floris JF soap.jpg (362181 byte)  
Portus Cale Black Edition Shaving Soap portus_cale_soap.jpg (281977 byte)   
Lea Classic Shaving Soap Lea soap.jpg (429857 byte)   
Floris The Gentleman Shaving Soap Floris The Gentleman soap.jpg (306332 byte)   
Fine American Blend soap Fine American Blend soap.jpg (331859 byte)  
Semogue Lavender Shaving Soap Semogue Lavender shaving soap.jpg (388669 byte)  
Mondial Bergamotto Neroli  
Myrsol Blue   
Myrsol Agua Balsámica