Death Of Tallow Sticks

Greetings everyone, newbie here, this is my first post! Tabac has been my grail for quite some time, so much so that I didn’t know it had been reformulated until I received a new order of 3 pucks and 2 sticks. Cautiously optimistic, I shaved with one of the sticks and sure enough, it lit my face up :-(

I’m gutted as it took a lot of trial and error to find a soap that didn’t irritate my skin, now I have to start all over again. I also have some Mitchell’s Wool Fat and while I can use it, it also irritates my face a bit. I just placed an order from Connaught for a puck of Cyril S Salter soap, I’m hoping this one will work for me…

Bummed in NE Ohio,

Steve
 
Desmoface said:
Greetings everyone, newbie here, this is my first post! Tabac has been my grail for quite some time, so much so that I didn’t know it had been reformulated until I received a new order of 3 pucks and 2 sticks. Cautiously optimistic, I shaved with one of the sticks and sure enough, it lit my face up :-(

I’m gutted as it took a lot of trial and error to find a soap that didn’t irritate my skin, now I have to start all over again. I also have some Mitchell’s Wool Fat and while I can use it, it also irritates my face a bit. I just placed an order from Connaught for a puck of Cyril S Salter soap, I’m hoping this one will work for me…

Bummed in NE Ohio,

Steve
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A shame to hear the new one irritates your skin, I react to a lot of soaps as well. Have you tried the unscented Stirling soaps by chance?
 
I used the now extinct, tallow-based Wilkie Stick today. Absolutely fabulous. Tallow, glycerin & lanolin - provided you get the rest of the recipe right, this holy trinity provides sheer shaving joy.

I’ve got 4 or 5 but if I ever found more at affordable prices, I’d be fighting folk off with me walking stick. “Get back, get back I say! Foul beasts of demonic intentions. Yon Wilkie sticks are mine, all mine and you SHALL NOT PASS!!!”

Aye, they’re no three bad.
 
Gairdner said:
I used the now extinct, tallow-based Wilkie Stick today. Absolutely fabulous. Tallow, glycerin & lanolin - provided you get the rest of the recipe right, this holy trinity provides sheer shaving joy.

I’ve got 4 or 5 but if I ever found more at affordable prices, I’d be fighting folk off with me walking stick. “Get back, get back I say! Foul beasts of demonic intentions. Yon Wilkie sticks are mine, all mine and you SHALL NOT PASS!!!”

Aye, they’re no three bad.
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A few months ago I visited a locally owned Pharmacy. They had stock so I cleared the lot!
 
pjgh said:
Nah! We were using that ingredient in Yorkshire a century before someone else "invented" it.
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