Van Der Lovett

[Bogeyman]

Dutch soap on the cheap it appears. Anyone used it?

Shaving Soap 'Sweetwood' | vanderlovett

Van Der Lovett's famous shaving soap, made in Holland for shaving pleasure the world over. In signature scent 'Sweetwood'. 1 x boxed 70 gram disk. The scent Sweetwood features top notes of subtle citrus, with refined heart notes of lilac and lavender. The powerful base notes include sandalwood...

www.vanderlovett.com

 

[Bogeyman]

Well, this link ought to light a fire under some of you as a few are saying:

... The lather is similar to Tabac...

Indeed great tallow soap. I switched from the old Tabac to VDL (grey edition including aftershave balm). Performance is almost the same as Tabac and it smells a lot nicer according to my daughter..

My review of Van Der Lovett shaving soap

I recently found this Van der Lovett shaving soap at Marshalls in Canada. Let's get a look at that puck. It is definitely not an extremely hard soap. I would say somewhere around the hardness of Haslinger Schafmilch. This shave was performed with a 1951 Gillette tech (except the handle) with...

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[donnie_arko]

Well, this link ought to light a fire under some of you as a few are saying:

My review of Van Der Lovett shaving soap

I recently found this Van der Lovett shaving soap at Marshalls in Canada. Let's get a look at that puck. It is definitely not an extremely hard soap. I would say somewhere around the hardness of Haslinger Schafmilch. This shave was performed with a 1951 Gillette tech (except the handle) with...

www.badgerandblade.com

BM, I think I have read VDL is very good (maybe produced in the same factory as tallow Tabac) but it's never been on sale in the UK and they do not ship here as well.

So I think it's unlikely many here will have used it.

 

[Bogeyman]

BM, I think I have read VDL is very good (maybe produced in the same factory as tallow Tabac) but it's never been on sale in the UK and they do not ship here as well.

So I think it's unlikely many here will have used it.

OK, I just assumed they would ship it to there as it's only a hop, skip & a jump away. Oh well.