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I'm not expert but as long as beef and lamb/mutton are used in the processed food industry (stock cubes, pet food etc) there will always be plenty of tallow.What you said mate - does anybody know why this is the case? Is it that tallow has been appropriated by another industrial process that can pay higher prices than soap makers for it - or are the compliance rules for using fat of an animal origin becoming uneconomic? Have the companies done their market research and decided that people want vegetarian soaps? If the latter was the case - why would Salters have reintroduced a tallow soap into the market recently? In American artisan soaps - there seems to be no end of tallow used - be that cow, sheep, pig, bison, duck, otter and marmoset - okay I just made the last two up. You take my point though. Like you I enjoy a choice in my soaps - I have some very good vegetarian soaps but I would miss the tallow ones dearly. Perhaps a couple of experts here could shed some light on it? Yours - I.
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Hi Rob,
I love the Rex Ambassador; when I read your SOTD your experience of some drag made some sense to me, occassionally I feel that I get some drag, but can't put my finger on it.
Whatever it is, it does not take away from the quality shaves with the Rex.
All the best,
Chris
As long as we get the soap from a country that eats said blubbering animals we shouldn't have the animal rights people down on us, by-product and all that!@Blademonkey P. - otters - no go - protected species in Europe - much like badgers - what about seal or penguin tallow? There are loads of them - we might have marketing issues though? The public - are for some reason - a bit squeamish about the animals that are killed in their name. Never understood why. What about walrus? There is a load of blubber going on there? Again marketing problems. Or maybe not? - we could all do it together - do a crowd funding thing - the honest shaving soap tallow company - who's with me? - ha ha - I.
Hi Chris,
There's no denying the end results are very good. I would say it's close to the R41 for efficiently. I just wish it was smoother.
I'm still tempted to buy the newer version. From what I've read the 'N' batch has been improved greatly.
What version do you have?
Cheers
Rob
Would love to hear your thoughts on Halfeti Dick?Greetings
Wednesday 16th May 2018
Prep: Shower
Razor: Heljestrand
Blade: Henckels Rapide
Brush: Plisson Synthetic
Soap: Speick Stick Grated
Aftershave: Astral cream (soft)
EDP: Penhaligon's Halfeti (sample)
This fragrance is, IMHO, an absolute delight. A spicy rose oud, certainly an evening or winter/autumn fragrance; for me quite one of the nicest fragrances I have tried and certainly my favourite of the Penhaligon's that I have sampled to date.
On the opposite side of the spectrum yesterday afternoon I tried Penhaligon's Juniper Sling, I had high hopes for this as a summer EDT, what a huge let down, I found it hard to really get anything from it at all, perhaps a fleeting generic citrus note and that was it, I could detect no juniper at all which is surely what gin and this fragrance is meant to be about? For me a huge disappointment.
Regards
Dick.
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