What are your favorite combos and why?
Anyone combine 3 or more soaps into 1 container?
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OldSaw
The wife's investment
Yup.
I've only done it with a bunch of duds grated with a stick of Arko and the combination was actually quite shave worthy.
I've only done it with a bunch of duds grated with a stick of Arko and the combination was actually quite shave worthy.
+1.
I recently grated a half-puck of Williams, and some shave stick stubs; stubs of a couple of arko, a Spieck, a Palmolive, maybe another soap along with a splurt of Proraso, mixed it together and pressed it into a plastic container. These 'tailings' work just fine.
-- John Gehman
I recently grated a half-puck of Williams, and some shave stick stubs; stubs of a couple of arko, a Spieck, a Palmolive, maybe another soap along with a splurt of Proraso, mixed it together and pressed it into a plastic container. These 'tailings' work just fine.
-- John Gehman
I mixed together 3 shave soaps as they were not performing to my liking (any of them). Surprisingly, they were awesome together (except for the scent)... I don't know where to start to describe the scent...
I have my 'Frankenfoam' that I posted about a long time back. It is a tub containing the remnant bits of various pucks of soap when they got too small to use anymore. The trouble with it is that the tub is filling faster than I am using it up. I do get nice lathers out of it though.
I had zapped some Mama Bear Aged Spice in the microwave on a whim. It goes back to a thread by a chap that was concerned about his soap wearing with a concave surface instead of staying flat. Yes it melted and leveled out nicely, not that such things normally bother me.
While I had molten soap I decided to pour it into one of my many Old Spice mugs, then it clicked that one such mug held the ends of several bath bars and soap pucks. You know, the last bit of three Aged Spice bath bars, a sliver of old spice and that little ring of Williams left at the bottom of a mug. I didn't melt the scraps, just poured the melted Aged Spice over the rest and let it set up. I wound up with something similar to JP's Frankenfoam. Since the soap scraps are a small quantity of the mix, scented like the shave soap, or otherwise mildly scented they don't really impact how the MB Aged Spice lathers or foams.
Do a search on 'clownbarf soap ' it's quite interesting!
I do it with soaps, croaps, and hard creams. I love buying samples from Gary, so when I get low I'll combine a few to make sure I get a good 4-5 shaves out of them.
My latest concoction is Trumpers Coconut and Castle Forbes Lime. Very nice combo.
My latest concoction is Trumpers Coconut and Castle Forbes Lime. Very nice combo.
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Why waste soap! I have my container of "Frankensoap" as well. Whenever I have the end of a shave stick or a circle of soap left it gets grated into my container of "this and that". I think I have Cella, AOS Lavender, Arko, BEA, and one or two others in my current mix.
My latest concoction is Trumpers Coconut and Castle Forbes Lime. Very nice combo.
"She put the lime in the coconut, she drank 'em both up"
It filled up half a shave stick container. I even tried to layer the samples but I'm not sure how well that worked. But still, much easier than trying to lather up slivers of soap. Except now my microwave smells very, very interesting...
Melt a puck of VDH in a bowl, add several squeezes from a tube of C.O. Bigelow and Dr. Bronners, Spearmint/Peppermint shave gel and stir/mix well in liquid form. Then put the soap mixture in the fridge and let harden. The resulting shaves are very cold and lathery. 
Top of the shave with Osage Rub.
Top of the shave with Osage Rub.Melt a puck of VDH in a bowl, add several squeezes from a tube of C.O. Bigelow and Dr. Bronners, Spearmint/Peppermint shave gel and stir/mix well in liquid form. Then put the soap mixture in the fridge and let harden. The resulting shaves are very cold and lathery.
Mmm...Osage Rub... I need to buy my own bottle of that good green elixir.
To me, it seems like every soap could benefit from some menthol kick. And tallow. Can I rend beef/pork fat to make my own tallow and add to veggie soaps? Now that ​would be an experiment worth doing.
