When I first started shaving I gave tabac a try and really didn’t like it I couldn’t get a half decent lather out of it so I came here and said my bit….welp now a couple years later I thought you know what I’ll try it again ….lo and behold it was super thick and slick …I take what I said tabac..it’s fairly good stuff I just didn’t know how to lather it properly back then… mmm that musky smell
I take it tabac
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Good for you. I wasn't crazy about the smell my first few times I tried it, but have grown to love it.
Except on those days I don't, lol!
Sorry y'all, but some days that soap smells like my grandma's purse, which is okay......but on other days it smells like my grandma's purse that was buried with her! True story doggone!
Except on those days I don't, lol!
Sorry y'all, but some days that soap smells like my grandma's purse, which is okay......but on other days it smells like my grandma's purse that was buried with her! True story doggone!
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I only began using Tabac this month (after years of using other shaving soaps). IMHO, Tabac is one of (if not the) easiest soaps with which to build a good lather. It has a huge usable lather window, which leads to such a giant margin for error that a number of Tabac users will complain about how difficult it is to build a lather with some other soaps (including ones I love and with which I've managed enjoyable lathers).
IMHO, the key to Tabac is to load the brush heavily with soap and then slowly add water to the lather. Tabac will work as a thicker lather and it will also work as a thinner lather (hence, the huge usable lather window).
I cannot imagine anyone struggling to make a lather with Tabac.
As for the scent, it's heavenly! I just wish it were stronger! (I also regret airing out my puck before I used it!) I'd take the scent of a puck if Tabac over that of a stick if Arko any day of the week (and twice on Sundays!).
IMHO, the key to Tabac is to load the brush heavily with soap and then slowly add water to the lather. Tabac will work as a thicker lather and it will also work as a thinner lather (hence, the huge usable lather window).
I cannot imagine anyone struggling to make a lather with Tabac.
As for the scent, it's heavenly! I just wish it were stronger! (I also regret airing out my puck before I used it!) I'd take the scent of a puck if Tabac over that of a stick if Arko any day of the week (and twice on Sundays!).
Tallow Tabac performance is fantastic. The scent is kind of a flashback to days gone by, like a favorite uncle who's kind of eccentric and behind the times, but you like him anyway.
Maybe that explains why I like Tabac! I am that uncle!
It is good stuff. The initial scent I found to be very interesting. I was not sure if I liked it or not. I leave my Tabac refill in a wooden bowl with the lid off.
I wasn't too keen on Tabac, especially the scent, when I first tried it either. Came real close to getting rid of it a few times. Here I'm am, four years later and .... I'm pretty sure I'll never finish what came with the ceramic bowl let alone the refill puck. It's a great soap no doubt, but there's other soaps I enjoy more.
I feel sorry for people who are finally coming to enjoy this high performance soap, only to find out that the tallow version is going to gradually become a harder and harder to find.
+1! Classic soap that will soon become an ‘antique.’ Very tough to beat for performance IMO!
I like tabac for it's performance. It's scent is okay. I prefer Fine Classic soaps with the same performance. Unfortunately they share it's fate.
When I opened my first stick of Tabac I was taken aback by the pungent, floral scent. A very strange choice for a man's shaving soap. How exactly are we supposed to shave wearing a gas mask?
A year on, and the same stick has lost the strong floral profile and it just smells lovely. If lavender, sea buckthorn and citrus are fresh, bright Spring/Summer scents this is a great dark Autumn scent.
I used Tabac almost exclusively when I was learning to shave with straights. Slippery, well-lubricated shaves help a naked edge glide across the skin without harm. I'm going to miss the original Tabac formula when my stick runs out, some time later this century.
A year on, and the same stick has lost the strong floral profile and it just smells lovely. If lavender, sea buckthorn and citrus are fresh, bright Spring/Summer scents this is a great dark Autumn scent.
I used Tabac almost exclusively when I was learning to shave with straights. Slippery, well-lubricated shaves help a naked edge glide across the skin without harm. I'm going to miss the original Tabac formula when my stick runs out, some time later this century.
I really enjoy Tabac. I enjoy the scent and almost has a nostalgic scent but can't quite place where from.
The performance for me is good to very good. I like the thick slick lather it provides. I find it very easy to lather too.
The performance for me is good to very good. I like the thick slick lather it provides. I find it very easy to lather too.
Go to your nearest Salvation Army re-store.
Find an old purse. Stick your head in as deep as you can.
THAT is where you can place it from!
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Egyptian Musk - unmistakable smell it in incense …oils resins perfumes etc …
Soooo..... embalming fluid?
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That to and inside of coffins ..mummy’s etc 
hence why I thought that granny’s purse from salvos was funny
hence why I thought that granny’s purse from salvos was funny
THIS screams Tabac! Perfect my friend!
I did that once...I'm no longer welcome at the Salvation Army. Maybe I should've asked the old lady whether she would object to my sticking my head in her bag first.
