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Huh! I grumbled to the folks at WSP direct ... who inform me they've now fixed their pages.
Forgive me for my ignorance, what is it that shea butter does to your skin or your shave?Putting sodding shea butter in their soaps!
For crying out loud! What is it with sodding shea butter? No! It does not make for a luxurious shave and a smooth post-shave feel! It makes for merry hell for a few days which mushy skin comes back to normal with lashings of highly alcoholic cologne!
Damn it!
There I was just about to make a purchase of their new Abricot soap (I already have this scent as the limited edition UKWSS soap) and noticed sodding shea butter now in the ingredients.
Stop it!
Le Père Lucien is quality soap according to classic French tradition. I slipped up again, buying in some WSP soap (reputed to be following the recipe for a classic French soap ... read: MDC) and yet it arrived and there's blasted shea butter in it - no mention in the ingredients listed on the website I bought it from, but there it is on the tub.
Shaving Time, BTW.
Click on any WSP Rustic soap ... this one, say: https://shavingtime.co.uk/collections/wsp/products/rustic-shaving-soap-fougere-noir-vegan-125g ... "Vegan & Made in America at our food grade workshop located in Chandler, AZ using the following natural & vegan ingredients: Stearic Acid, Water, Coconut Oil, Potassium Hydroxide, Glycerin, Fragrance" ... and 'effing shea butter if you squint at the lid once you'd sodding bought it!
Very chuffing pissed (off)
Forgive me for my ignorance, what is it that shea butter does to your skin or your shave?
Forgive me for my ignorance, what is it that shea butter does to your skin or your shave?
It does not make for a luxurious shave and a smooth post-shave feel! It makes for merry hell for a few days which mushy skin comes back to normal with lashings of highly alcoholic cologne!
Some of the best shave soaps have it, e.g., Mike's Natural Soaps & Cold River Soap Works. I have never heard anyone complain about it like this before, but everyone's face is different.
Sorry but i'm not really getting you. Is it that your skin is too soft once you've used a soap with it in or that its too oily or irritation, is the shave to dry or too dull. i'm not sure if i'm missing something. Whats the actual thing that is causing the issue....
Citing a couple of American soaps (spit) ain't a good example
Most of the best soaps ... well, don't.
No, it's just one ingredient that I really, really do not like and I can sense it straight away in the shave and just know it's going to be bad afterwards.
I think what irks me most was ... finally, an American soap I can use (and indeed have enjoyed as samples from Jim at Shave Dash when they clearly were a simpler formula, sans shea butter), now I can't. Until late last night, WSP's own website did not list it in any ingredient roster nor show it on any picture of their product, but are putting out tins of product with a revised ingredient listing for real.
What a crock!
Parody:
"The Story Behind It
When I decided it was time to add a shaving soap to my product line, it needed to lather easily in hard water, be super slick, and protective. I started by looking at the existing options, but only one truly stood out. Considered the holy grail of shaving soap, imitated, but never replicated, Martin de Candre's iconic vegan shaving soap stood out as the king of shaving soap. Some people even considered it the Holy Grail of shaving (it costs $70 per jar). So, I set out to crack the code…
...
The main complaints about MdC are: it's drying and there are no scent options. So, I made it better by incorporating shea butter and a ton of awesome scents. The result was a soap that lathers as soon as you look at it, that smells great and provides enough cushion & moisture to impress even the most discerning gentleman."
So, I wanted to make the best car in the world ... but rather than re-invent the wheel, I just copied a Porsche. The main negativity about Porsche is that they are sterile and austere, so I fitted some fluffy dice to the rear view mirror and eyelashes to the headlamps.
... you just wouldn't.
Right! I've completely lost perspective on this - it's now a big, big deal and I'm going to both my MP about it ...
Meanwhile, there'll be a couple of tubs of WSP Rustic going onto BST - Barbershop & Black Amber Vanille ... eyes peeled if shea butter is your thing
Meanwhile, there'll be a couple of tubs of WSP Rustic going onto BST - Barbershop & Black Amber Vanille ... eyes peeled if shea butter is your thing
Not trolling lol i really am trying to see where he's coming from.Epic rant there @pjgh and I'm with you, not from soap use but the raw material is a too chip pan fat for me.
Some very mild trolling chaps, must try harder...
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