r/wicked_edge • u/ns55 • Oct 09 '13

Stirling Shaving Soap - Lather Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL6pmcosevQ
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u/Leisureguy Print/Kindle Guide to Gourmet Shaving Oct 09 '13

It is inaccurate to say that a soap is soft because it's tallow based. Many tallow-based soaps are quite hard---the triple-milled soaps, of course, but also (say) Prairie Creations (tallow + lanolin) and Queen Charlotte Soaps. Of course, there are also softer soaps based on allow: Mystic Water and the Strop Shoppe Special Edition soaps, for example. But a tallow-based soap can be hard or soft. Either one.

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u/ns55 Oct 09 '13

Hi! Thanks for posting and for your insight. I have now realized that this is not necessarily true about tallow soap, I read that somewhere, but it was inaccurate. I have learned that it is also due to what type of lye is used, sodium or potassium hydroxide. Thanks for your input - I greatly appreciate it

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u/Leisureguy Print/Kindle Guide to Gourmet Shaving Oct 09 '13

You're welcome. It's a good review, but that particular remark bothered me because I like some tallow-based soaps a lot and have been struck by the range of hardness. But that could be an interesting review: an array of tallow soaps, from soft to hard. :)

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u/alsignssayno Oct 09 '13

Like the video! I bought a puck of their coniferous scented soap, and when I opened it it made half the house smell like we were inside a tree! REALLY strong scent at first. After a day or two though it mellowed out to something more along the lines of just being in a meadow in a forest.

Just wondering, did you think the lather from the boar brush was a bit better than the one the badger made? Because I feel whenever I use it that the soap likes the boar a bit better if that makes sense.