Shaving Preppers - What Soap(s) Do You Stock In Quantity?

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Recently we have seen the demise of some great tallowate and cocoate soaps - Lea, Haslinger, Palmolive (UK at least) etc. which join a growing list of great tallowate and cocoate soaps from yesteryear (Shulton, Yardley, English Florals to name a few). Many soaps from yesteryear have been stocked in huge numbers by shaving soap geeks, nerds or whatever term you feel comfortable with. I have, somewhat irrationally, stocked-up on 3 kilos of Palmolive (a very modest spend for hoarding a great soap) I Kilo of Arko, 2 Kilos of Cella and numerous pucks of Tabac, Haslinger, I Coloniali (veggy exception :)), and Shulton Old Spice. With many currencies heading south, a no deal Brexit on the horizon and the commencement of a trade-war (25%+ tariffs now becoming the norm) - What soaps do you stock in quantity?
 
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As yet none, although I have two jealously-guarded Irish Moos sticks and a small stock of Palmolive. If there's ever a rumour of Speick being discontinued I'll be bulk-buying that though.

I have a suspicion the German Tallow soaps are next on the list. Start emptying space in the soap bunker for the next stage of the tallow fallout.

FTR Vitos will drop tallow as an ingredient this year. Cella may next be on the list to drop tallow, they've introduced a new version and it could be a gradual shift and eventually drop the classic tallow version.

I have a few sticks of Palmolive (maybe 6?) and a kg brick of Vitos in addition to a fair amount of other soap. If I do add to the hoard it would be Tabac & Speick.
 
I don't hoard any particular brand as I like change and choice. As soon as I find the holy grail soap up pops the next God of lathering and so on and so forth.

I have a few more than necessary OSP's but not really through hoarding but because I happen to like Jame's products. When they run out they run out and it will only mean having to curse Jame's.

As a consequence I am just managing to hoard variety.
 
Why this adoration of tallow! I find them more difficult to lather consistently, clogs sink. Tallow versions of Haslinger are not nearly as good as their new versions. Some of the best soaps and creams have no tallow, SV, castle Forbes, etc. Love of tallow baffles me, and dont you guys with dozens of the same soap not get bored with them?! The joy of shaving is exploring the great variety of wonderful soaps and creams.

No offence, but just saying.
 
Why this adoration of tallow! I find them more difficult to lather consistently, clogs sink. Tallow versions of Haslinger are not nearly as good as their new versions. Some of the best soaps and creams have no tallow, SV, castle Forbes, etc. Love of tallow baffles me, and dont you guys with dozens of the same soap not get bored with them?! The joy of shaving is exploring the great variety of wonderful soaps and creams.

No offence, but just saying.

I've said this before and will no doubt say it again, but there is good soap and bad soap and the presence of tallow is not the deciding factor. Some people however believe that it is.
 
Why this adoration of tallow! I find them more difficult to lather consistently, clogs sink. Tallow versions of Haslinger are not nearly as good as their new versions. Some of the best soaps and creams have no tallow, SV, castle Forbes, etc. Love of tallow baffles me, and dont you guys with dozens of the same soap not get bored with them?! The joy of shaving is exploring the great variety of wonderful soaps and creams.

No offence, but just saying.
Agree with you Roy, Tallow was never used because it was the best ingredient , it was just a cheap by product.

As Chris says good soap is not determined by if it contains Tallow or not. For me personally I don.t use Animal products so as soon as something has Tallow in it is a no for me.
 
Why this adoration of tallow! I find them more difficult to lather consistently, clogs sink. Tallow versions of Haslinger are not nearly as good as their new versions. Some of the best soaps and creams have no tallow, SV, castle Forbes, etc. Love of tallow baffles me, and dont you guys with dozens of the same soap not get bored with them?! The joy of shaving is exploring the great variety of wonderful soaps and creams.

No offence, but just saying.

...fortunately their is enough variety in soaps for shavers to indulge their own preferences and likes, wether they want to avoid palm oil soaps to protect primates; only use veggie soaps; use only tallow soaps or enjoy soaps based on performance only, the choice is available to us all. Some members have had the time to use many different soap bases and know what their preferences are and what is best for them whilst others are still exploring... :).
 
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...fortunately their is enough variety in soaps for shavers to indulge their own preferences and likes, wether they want to avoid palm oil soaps to protect primates; only use veggie soaps; use only tallow soaps or enjoy soaps based on performance only, the choice is available to us all. Some members have had the time to use many different soap bases and know what their preferences are and what is best for them whilst others are still exploring... :).
All good points. I've never understood what appears to be a moral panic when it's learned that soaps are to be reformulated without tallow. Will there really be a drop in quality; or is it merely psychosomatic? On a blind test between tallow and non-tallow soaps, would we really notice the difference?
 
All good points. I've never understood what appears to be a moral panic when it's learned that soaps are to be reformulated without tallow. Will there really be a drop in quality; or is it merely psychosomatic? On a blind test between tallow and non-tallow soaps, would we really notice the difference?

...no doubt some can tell the difference when a soap is reformulated and some can not in the same way that some have exceptional sensitivity to scent notes and others do not. I find no problem understanding why a favourite soap that is reformulated may cause concern but also understand why others may not. That said the OP is about what soaps members are stocking not the merits or otherwise of reformulations...
 
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Sometimes they do ruin reformulation. I do not know about Haslinger as I've only used the tallow version, but they ruined Lea, poor substitute for what was once a great everyday tallow soap.
 
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