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sonny said:Is it similar to or as good (performance wise) as the lovely Tabac?
My main objectives:
cushioning and beard softening ability. Tabac excels in both these areas.
hunnymonster said:Honestly can't see it - but an excuse to buy more to go with the 10 or so I have :lol:
Fido has a vintage cake of Yardley, but I don't know if he's used it ... I'd guess that Wool Fat is good for many years in storage. As regards the quality of the stuff, given the right water, I now think it's even better than Tabac for the lather, although not for scent, making it a tie.hunnymonster said:I reckon the shelf-life of an unused cake of hard soap will be measured in decades...
antdad said:sonny said:Is it similar to or as good (performance wise) as the lovely Tabac?
My main objectives:
cushioning and beard softening ability. Tabac excels in both these areas.
It's different, but good enough. A true face lathering soap, pleasant scent, just load the brush enough in hard water areas.
Henk'll tell you soap don't soften, water does, or the water captured in the lather after the soap has done it's job.
Some like the skin conditioning properties of this soap, which may be attributed to the lanolin.
What happened to your "magic cream" that is the only thing that works for you and you couldn't tell anybody about?
Arrowhead said:Fido has a vintage cake of Yardley, but I don't know if he's used it ... I'd guess that Wool Fat is good for many years in storage. As regards the quality of the stuff, given the right water, I now think it's even better than Tabac for the lather, although not for scent, making it a tie.hunnymonster said:I reckon the shelf-life of an unused cake of hard soap will be measured in decades...
Fido said:Saw this:
"by the way did you know L'Oreal are buying MWF, theyre now going to be made in one of L'Oreal's Chinese factories, packaging will be the same of course but the formulation will be be changed to something that better suits the needs of mass production "
Should we start stocking up?
This is likely to be a wind up - but one never knows!
henkverhaar said:Soap may dry out if stored without cover, or with insufficient cover, but other than that, most industrial soaps and good shaving soaps, being made from (mostly) saturated fats, will keep almost indefinitely. Drying will slightly alter their initial lathering properties (mainly quickness of lather building), but not much else. They will eventually lose their scent though.
Many artisanal soaps, i.e. those that include unsaturated fats and oils, have a shelf life that may range from months to years, mainly due to oxidation and auto-oxidation of the unsaturated fatty acids (i.e. they go rancid). Some oils are notorious for this, such as hemp oil.
Henk
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