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antdad said:Wooaaahhh. Thank's Henk.
It seems that many of my favourite soaps contain tallow/lanolin...DR Harris, Tabac, MWF, Palmolive etc. Is there a specific property that the inclusion of animal fat brings to a soap or is it just conjecuture that I seem to get my best shaves using them?
Fido said:"So, all these additives don't make a soap GOOD for your skin, only possibly less BAD." Is this true of creams as well?
Great post, thanks.
Arrowhead said:OK, I've just read that properly, and since it's all hard science written by a chemist I'm happy to take it as uncontroversial fact. Which leaves me in the same position as Tony: slightly shaken but still convinced, however irrationally, that tallow soaps work best for me. Perhaps what we like about them is just the texture of the lather, though I swear that my skin is in better shape if I use Wool Fat exclusively for a week, regardless of what I put on afterwards.
Henk: how would you feel about giving us the lowdown on after shave balms and moisturisers which claim to address the problems you set out?
Pete said:Thank you Henk a really interesting post. I've noticed that one of my favourite soaps, the Palmolive stick, has potassium hydrogenated tallowate as it's major ingredient. Is this a lot different to the normal potassium tallowate found in other soaps?
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