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SmallBeard said:I've snagged a puck originally from the group buy from Audiolab, and I'm very much looking forward to trying it!
I've tried Tabac, and was really impressed. How good is this against the Tabac performance wise?
chrisbell said:SmallBeard said:I've snagged a puck originally from the group buy from Audiolab, and I'm very much looking forward to trying it!
I've tried Tabac, and was really impressed. How good is this against the Tabac performance wise?
Takes a little more work to lather than Tabac, IMO (but then again, what hard soap doesn't?), but it compares well in both cushion and lubrication, though perhaps not quite as high in lubrication as Tabac. Post-shave care is, I'd say, probably better than Tabac - the shea butter puts it only just behind MWF for my money in terms of post-shave care. Scent is a mix of vervain (verbena) and linden - quite a sweet floral.
SmallBeard said:chrisbell said:SmallBeard said:I've snagged a puck originally from the group buy from Audiolab, and I'm very much looking forward to trying it!
I've tried Tabac, and was really impressed. How good is this against the Tabac performance wise?
Takes a little more work to lather than Tabac, IMO (but then again, what hard soap doesn't?), but it compares well in both cushion and lubrication, though perhaps not quite as high in lubrication as Tabac. Post-shave care is, I'd say, probably better than Tabac - the shea butter puts it only just behind MWF for my money in terms of post-shave care. Scent is a mix of vervain (verbena) and linden - quite a sweet floral.
Thank you
Tabac is the easiest lathering ANYTHING I've tried, and hard soaps are more work but it's good to mix it up a bit. It will be nice to have a decent hard soap. Tabac leaves my skin feeling great, so if this outperforms it on that front then I have a lot to look forward to.
MWF is, from what I've read, is notorious forbeing an arseneeding more work to lather up, I have a sample here which I'm yet to try, I know I'll have my work cut out! But again, if the post shave care is good, then it's worth the effort IMHO.
I'm never any good at describing scents, but floral sounds good to me, thank you for the information. I'm certainly excited about trying it, this is the only outlet where I can announce my excitement for a soap and not be deemed sad or weird. At least I hope I won't be :icon_razz::angel:
Alex
Yellow Jim said:I organised the very first group buy Chris (prior to the one your talking about) and I don't think the soap has ever changed. It's always contained talc. At one point they were thinking about updating their whole men's line, but it never happened.
Bechet45 said:At the time I ran the last one, the old hands were greatly concerned about the buy being of the new formulation (unknown) rather than the old formulation (well regarded). As it turned out, we got the old formulation and everyone was pleased. Are we now saying there wasn't a new formulation - it never happened? Or that another new formulation (the new, new formulation) didn't happen?
Bechet45 said:Whatever, I have a still wrapped puck of that soap - the Verlaine, old formulation - sitting in my cabinet. If anybody wants it, PM me and we can work out a price - you could search out the Group Buy and discover what we all paid for a puck back then. It's brilliant stuff but I have a puck in use and anyway have gotten lazy and gone to creams and soft soaps.
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