Any soap reformulations better when tallow was removed?

[Zepher]

Has there ever been a reformulation of a shaving soap that was better when tallow was removed or placed further down the ingredients list?

In my personal experience no, and the general opinions of this forum would say no as well.

I can think of no better example that the latest offering of Pens's English Fern - yuk!

 

[Leche]

Not that I've heard of. I've never tried Trumper's Tallow, but the non tallow was utterly disappointing. Most of the reforms sound the same.

 

[Go West Young Man]

A better question to ask is whether any products have ever come out of a reformulation working better, regardless of what was changed.

 

[cymric]

I'm not sure that people who are besotted with the pre-reformulated product are impartial enough to pass judgment on the reformulated one. Also the goal of a reformulation is not always to make the product 'better'; there are other issues at work here, the least of which is that the shaver and the producer have conflicting goals when it comes to a soap.

 

[Ignatius]

They have unamimously gotten worse. Some, like Trumpers, not much. Others, like Pen's, much much worse.

 

[michiganlover]

I have never heard of a product getting better with reformulation, and in the case of Williams each re-formulation has made it progressively worst, until the current un-usable formulation.

 

[Jim]

No never better. At least we have the Coates re release to look forward to.