Are there any *good* vegan shave soaps?

[ouch]

Being a vegan rocks. Except for the lousy food and shave supplies.

 

[insomniac]

Pre de Provence!

Their shaving soap is excellent! I find it to perform comparably to my tallow-based shaving soap. It is supposedly scented with sage and rosemary, but I find it to smell exactly like fabric softener or dryer sheets... but its a light scent.

Make sure to get the balm as well

 

[Stealing First Base]

Being a vegan rocks. Except for the lousy food and shave supplies.

You clearly haven't had vegan food done right.

 

[hunter87597]

From what I hear, Razorock is a great vegan soap. A lot of people have compared it favorably to ADP. That's saying something for a sub-10 dollar soap/cream.

 

[rayms]

also http://www.nannyssillysoap.com/

 

[ouch]

You clearly haven't had vegan food done right.

I think you'll find that the tallow based soaps have a lot of fans, but there are some terrific vegetable based soaps. Straight razor users can even buy a vegan strop.

 

[gaj90027]

Hi! I was pointed to your forum by another website. I'm getting into DE shaving at the moment because I'm sick of buying disposable razors or refills for my Gilette Fusion...especially because I actually wear a beard and really only shave in order to clean up my neck line and keep my beard looking neat.

I've always used shave soaps even before I got interested in DE shaving, because I just prefer the feel of it. However, I've run out of my shave soap supply and since I last bought some I've made a pretty major change in my life and become a vegan. I already have a synthetic brush, and all that jazz, but I have yet to find a vegan soap that doesn't dry out my skin. I even tried some of the Dr. Bronner's gel, and I got a good lather, but the drying was still a problem.

So I turn to this community. Are there any shave soaps which are free of animal ingredients and also good soaps? If you could help me out here I would greatly appreciate it.

Lots of gents have given you great suggestions and I don't really have any more to add to the list. I do have a question for you though, just out of curiosity. What shave soap(s) were you using before you ran out?

 

[connelly108]

Check out Chelsea's soap garden on ebay, the arabian spice rocks.

 

[goby]

You clearly haven't had vegan food done right.

+1

Vegetarian greetings!! I'm a vegetarian, but try to keep away from tallow soaps if possible.

My favorites are:

Portland General Store (they have a After Shave Splash too)
Trumper Coconut (anything Trumper is great)
l'Occitanne Cade
VDH (cheap, but not great)

BTW, I'm thinking that most creams are vegan.

 

[BroJohn]

Honey Bee Spa shaving soaps. Vegan and fantastic.

Jeremy's right on this one. Another worthy of mention are the soaps from http://www.thesoapopera.com/cgi-bin/scart.cgi/TSO-HMS-100.php3?scartid=6438895 Recommended.

-- John Gehman

 

[Stealing First Base]

Lots of gents have given you great suggestions and I don't really have any more to add to the list. I do have a question for you though, just out of curiosity. What shave soap(s) were you using before you ran out?

Usually just Williams, honestly. It's available at all the department and drug stores around here, so it was easier to just go pick it up than it was to order something better online.

 

[jkh]

Usually just Williams, honestly. It's available at all the department and drug stores around here, so it was easier to just go pick it up than it was to order something better online.

Williams? You do know that is not vegan?

 

[Merv]

T&H Luxury Soap--Mellow!!

 

[kingfisher]

Williams? You do know that is not vegan?

I think the premise of his original post was that since he has recently become vegan, he wants to CHANGE the soaps he uses to vegan soaps.

 

[Saltchuck]

I'm very happy with Institut Karite, which is vegan. I have been using it almost exclusively for the last 3 months or so, and I haven't found the bottom of the puck yet!

 

[Stealing First Base]

Williams? You do know that is not vegan?

I think the premise of his original post was that since he has recently become vegan, he wants to CHANGE the soaps he uses to vegan soaps.

Precisely.

 

[jkh]

I think the premise of his original post was that since he has recently become vegan, he wants to CHANGE the soaps he uses to vegan soaps.

Precisely.

Roger

 

[DFrancis]

I have to say La Toja is a fantastic soap, as is Trumper's, both vegan and both on par with tallow soaps for me.

 

[Vintage Razor]

Klar Kabinett is vegetable based soap from Germany. It lathers up really well for me.

 

[goby]

Williams? You do know that is not vegan?

It's not really soap either.