Just ordered another 5. Was gobsmacked by the performance while away. Not fancy .....but so good
I wanted to try speick for a while yet didn’t get a chance… guess I better put an order down before the reformulation takes over
I’m definitely not per se chasing - more of a ‘it would be nice to try’ - and if opportunity comes along to grab one at normal and not overkill price then I will! I grabbed 2 speick sticks to try, same as will place order for 2 Lea ones. On top of that got two tabac, one Wilkinson sword, one arko and one Palmolive.Why? That would be like eating a Dodo bird steak at this point. My days of chasing after discod. soaps are long gone. Each week a new artisan enters the market to fill the void. Life will go on.
It's not all a moral stance in my opinion Mike , I am in a slightly different part of the industry , and what we are seeing is a huge uptick in demand for Animal Free Products , the more of the portfolio that is switched to animal free , the less inclined people are to run mixed plants , as the clean down between Animal and Animal free is more stringent. The toll manufacturers are the same they don't want to handle animal ingredients.
To me it is beautiful marketing as well , you get to sell about five years worth of the old formula to the die hards , and open up your product to a larger and younger market , a no brainer really.
On a slightly different issue, I can say that I'm a victim of buying into the message "animal fat is bad for human consumption" "eat margarine instead of butter" " butter is from animal fat and that is bad for you." We still see marketing slogans like "I can't believe is not butter" or simply name them with other names instead but they are margarines. I remember when margarines tasted so bad but we made the decision to switch because animal fat was bad for us. All these year believing that was a fact. When my diabetes got so bad last year and I began to research an alternative treatment to all the pills the doctor had me taking I learned to my total surprise that animal fat was actually not bad for humans, in fact, fats from sunflower for example, high in transfats, are responsible for many health problems including inflammation, fatty liver, etc and diabetics were actually encouraged to eat butter, specially butter from grass fed animals.
The only non animal fats that I still eat are olive and coconut oil, and avocado.
On the shaving soap front, I'm quite happy to use either base, PAA do vegan soaps and I rate them highly but I will not stop using soaps that have tallow because some people have an agenda against animal products.
I am the same regarding fats. I now use either butter, ghee or lard for cooking now and real butter for spreading.
Everthing now tastes better as well.
I have a drawer in the freezer just for butter and lard.
Ghee is clarified butter that has been cooked for longer to give it a more intense flavour. Clarify your own butter by heating it up and scimming the scum off the top then pouring it out leaving the crud at the bottom of the pot.I must admit that I had never heard of this stuff before. I Googled it and...................very interesting.
I must admit that I had never heard of this stuff before. I Googled it and...................very interesting.
I am the same regarding fats. I now use either butter, ghee or lard for cooking now and real butter for spreading.
Everthing now tastes better as well.
I have a drawer in the freezer just for butter and lard.
I use it in my chip pan, lasts much longer than vegetable oils without going rancid an if you move the cold pan you don't spill oil everwhere.It's good stuff, reasonably easy to make at home as well. It's basically just clarified butter, but in the UK you can buy it in a tub from Asian supermarkets.
Lard? I've not seen that mentioned as a cooking fat for a while. I've used it for roast potatoes with excess fat from a roast, a much higher boiling/burning point than other fats.
Just tried to buy the vegan Version on Amazon. It would appear that the new packaging is also being used for the Tallow soap as well. You need to search around and check ingredients to get what you want
The new formula should have a "VEGAN" inscription on the front side.
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