Gents, I just ordered Acca Kappa White Moss shaving soap. Could you share any thoughts or experiences about this soap? Also I am intended to make a review about Acca Kappa White Moss soap when it comes. Thanks.
Acca Kappa "White Moss" Soap
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I'm sure Marco will be able to confirm but isn't the white moss soap a normal soap and not a shaving soap?
David
David
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I am sure Marco has something to say. This soap is a shaving soap also I looked their web site. Here is the link.
http://www.shopaccakappa.com/StoreBox/shaving_accessories/3239.htm
I've only used the bath soap version of White Moss. It was given to me as a freebie with an order. I used it a few times and pitched it in the trash. Didn't like it at all. Performance was nothing special, neither was the smell. Can't say how this will transfer to the shaving soap obviously but just my experience with the bar soap I won't be trying the shaving soap anytime soon.
Better be good stuff as it is as expensive as MdC on a cost/oz basis.
"Muschio Bianco" (= "White Moss") is a complete grooming line by Acca Kappa. It includes many different items (solid and liquid soaps, a cologne, an aftershave, a shower gel, a shaving cream, etc.). The shaving soap should be a novelty. It is a vegetable soap that I have not tested yet.
Is this the soap that is available in a wooden bowl that costs around 4 times that of the soap?
David
David, I know that this soap is housed in a wooden bowl, but really have no info about the price.
I just recall The Gentleman's Shop in the UK had an Acca Kappa Soap on sale a few months ago and the price, including the bowl was around £70!!!
David
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I am sorry to say that but I pay for 50gr puck just £5!! I guess I am lucky.
The expensive bowl was under the "1869" line.
The Moss soap is a fantastic shave, great lather. the scents not for me though, it's nothing offensive, and I'm sure most people would like it.
The high price for the Acca Kappa soap was caused by the bowl, made from a bit of an exclusive type of tropical wood. The 1869 soap was rather yucky, though (it doesn't create stable meringue, but instead prefers to be a layer of bubbly slickness which I called brushless in a puck in my review); and if the formula for the White Moss soap is identical, then in my opinion you wasted your money.
I gather that the 1869 cream is something else entirely, but as it contains sodium borate I'm not going to try it and thus cannot comment any further. 's Too bad, really, I would have liked the 1869 soap fragrance in a good cream edition.
I gather that the 1869 cream is something else entirely, but as it contains sodium borate I'm not going to try it and thus cannot comment any further. 's Too bad, really, I would have liked the 1869 soap fragrance in a good cream edition.
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We will see the soap's performance. I do not love creams but I want to obtain an Acca Kappa 1869 asap. IMHO I understand your sodium borate avoidance but there are tons of chemicals(example Bisphenol A) above over sodium borate that we will concern. Thanks for your message.
Bisphenol A is something entirely different from sodium borate. It's not some environmental or hormonal issue I'm worried about: my skin simply doesn't like it and becomes itchy.
That said, once you have the White Moss soap, please be so kind as to post the ingredient list somewhere, either here in the forums or in a review. Those lists are helpful to others, even in ways you may not be aware of
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Bisphenol A is something entirely different from sodium borate. It's not some environmental or hormonal issue I'm worried about: my skin simply doesn't like it and becomes itchy.
That said, once you have the White Moss soap, please be so kind as to post the ingredient list somewhere, either here in the forums or in a review. Those lists are helpful to others, even in ways you may not be aware of
Sure. I agree with you. I will post the ingredients list in my review. We have a right to know it what is made of.
Sure. I agree with you. I will post the ingredients list in my review. We have a right to know it what is made of.
Here's the ingredients list:
A Spanish friend made a review for the Spanish wetshaving forum "foroafeitado.es". If you can read Spanish, you can see the review here.
If you can't read Spanish, you can also read the review using google translator.
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In my terms, it is just as expensive as Cade
. But you are right it is an expensive soap.Here's the ingredients list:
A Spanish friend made a review for the Spanish wetshaving forum "foroafeitado.es". If you can read Spanish, you can see the review here.
If you can't read Spanish, you can also read the review using google translator.
Thank you for your post. I wish this review was written in English. Frankly, I give my thanks to the Google Chrome
That's a different formula compared to the hard 1869 shave soap (which is not the same as the 1869 Almond product sold in a plastic tub).
The 1869 hard soap is sodium palmate, sodium palm kernelate, sodium laurate, potassium laurate, glycerin, aqua, [...], hexyldecanol, hexyldecyl laurate, [...]; White Moss is sodium palmate, potassium stearate, sodium palm kernelate, sodium stearate, glycerin, [...], hexyldecyl laurate, hexyldecanol, [...] and some chelating agents. What that means in normal language is that White Moss is without doubt the better performer of the two, and noticably so. It produces thicker lather thanks to the presence of the stearates; it produces it more easily thanks to the potassium stearate as its second ingredient; and it has less issues with hard water thanks to the chelating agents; while maintaining the slickness introduced by the hexyl-compounds. Should be an interesting product to try, in fact.
The 1869 hard soap is sodium palmate, sodium palm kernelate, sodium laurate, potassium laurate, glycerin, aqua, [...], hexyldecanol, hexyldecyl laurate, [...]; White Moss is sodium palmate, potassium stearate, sodium palm kernelate, sodium stearate, glycerin, [...], hexyldecyl laurate, hexyldecanol, [...] and some chelating agents. What that means in normal language is that White Moss is without doubt the better performer of the two, and noticably so. It produces thicker lather thanks to the presence of the stearates; it produces it more easily thanks to the potassium stearate as its second ingredient; and it has less issues with hard water thanks to the chelating agents; while maintaining the slickness introduced by the hexyl-compounds. Should be an interesting product to try, in fact.
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I just picked up the soap for $21. I hope it's worth it
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