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The old tallow formula Haslinger Schafmilch was neck & neck with MWF and to my schnozz smelled almost exactly the same. I have not used the tallowless Haslinger version. The tallow Salter puck is superb.
Ok, you win, recommend me a hard soap please …
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The old tallow formula Haslinger Schafmilch was neck & neck with MWF and to my schnozz smelled almost exactly the same. I have not used the tallowless Haslinger version. The tallow Salter puck is superb.
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Salter = DR Harris at a cheaper price, so long as it's Lavender that you're after ... so, if you like it and want more scents then look to DR Harris.
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Being short of arm, long of pocket and in keeping with the tight-fisted Scotsman image, I shall stick to Salter and MWF.
I love the scent of Windsor but I grudge paying several times the price just for a bit of whiff that soon disipates. The EdT however, may be purchased by my adoring fans and family members as homage. Otherwise, it’ll be jolly old Quorum for me.
Thus spake the Gairdner.
The expense of DRH soaps often comes from the wooden bowl. If you buy the refills, they're quite reasonably priced. I've picked them up for ~£11 each before. Not bad considering how long they last.
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Indeed but at £3.45 for Salter at 99g and already having a wooden bowl and a suitable dish to stick the soap cake to, it’s still several times the price and I’m getting thriftier in my old age. Necessity, alas…
Fair enough chap. That CRS soap is a bargain.
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Is the Cyril Salter Lavender soap the same scent as DR Harris’s Lavender?
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The Cyril Salter soap has a very mild scent to my nose but have not used the DR Harris soap so unfortunately I cannot give a direct comparison.
Paul.
I'm convinced it's the same soap
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Might get myself some as I’ve recently finished my Castle Forbes Lavender, thanks.
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At that price it’s a no brainer, thanks.
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Right! Own up, who bought all the feckin’ Salter Soap? There’s feckin’ b*all left! Ooft, I’m keeping my secrets to myself in future - ruddy plunderers and pillagers…
With much mirth,
The Fat Gairdner
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Drumroll ...
Sodium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Sodium Cocoate, Parfum (Fragrance), Sodium Chloride, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Isopropyl Myristate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Coconut Fatty Acid, Evernia Furfuracea, BHT, Coumarin, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)
... and confirming Glycerin as an ingredient, missing in the blurb on their website.
So, a different ingredient set to the unlatherable Eucris that I bought maybe 5 or 6 years ago, which was: Sodium Palmate, Potassium Stearate, Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Stearate, Aqua (Water), Potassium Cocoate, Glycerin, Parfum (Fragrance), Tetrasodium ETDA, Sodium Chloride, Isopropyl Myristrate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Evernia Furfuracea, BHT, Coumerin, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)
Proper Evernia Furfuracea still in it ... I can smell it and it's like cat nip to me!
Dry puck in my hand and just a tiny amount of water filling the little divet in the back of the soap. Dry brush, start to load and I heard a heart-sinking foaming noise but it passed and I kept loading and adding water as I went to build up what I thought was a pretty good loading and even proto-lather on my brush.
Super! I'd already washed my face and gave it another splash of hot water ... on with the soap.
... and it started to lather up quite nicely! Overpaintable, even?
... and then it did what I feared it would. On my face it then foamed up and dissipated.
Trying to rescue the situation, I rubbed the puck on my face like a shaving stick and re-lathered. Again, thick lather, overpaintable ... and again, it foamed up and disappeared.
Damn it! I had such high hopes seeing that the formula is not different. Damn it again, given my very positive experience of T&H with an equally poor reputation rescued by the reformulation of their soaps (that's a keeper, by the way).
Still. Not. Fit. For. Purpose.
I had my suspicions as earlier in the week, I revisited that puck of Bulldog shaving soap which is sitting in a plastic bag while a more deserving soap occupies its lovely bamboo bowl. The ingredient list for Bulldog starts the same way: Sodium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Sodium Cocoate, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Limonene, Parfum (Fragrance)*, Camelina Sativa Seed Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Sodium Chloride, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Glucomannan, Linalool, Coconut Fatty Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Camellia Sinensis (GreenTea) Leaf Extract ... and deviates after the main ingredients.
... but it'll make a nice bath soap.
Damn it!
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Shame, makes you wonder what the people at Trumpers are doing. Their other products have a very good reputation, you'd think they would try and get the soap working or just stop selling it.