I know there are a few other very popular threads about making one's own shaving soap. It's a few of them here that helped fuel a new hobby for me. I've spent more than a year experimenting and then several months documenting it (most of the time with very experienced editors telling me where I'd screwed up) so that ANYONE can make their own shave soap if they can follow a kitchen recipe.
The history of this particular soap is somewhat "checkered" as it relates to B&B. I make it and give it away and people who have thought to discuss it here have been met with post removal. I've been warned, I've been censored, I've been threatened probably because I thought to take umbrage with some of the crap out there being peddled to unsuspecting consumers. Fan-boys are funny that way. At every turn I've been discouraged from participating with B&B denizens in any aspects of this journey. I do not fault the administrators and moderators; where conflict exists it is far easier and makes far more sense for a volunteer staff to simply remove that which causes conflict. I would be lying however if I did not say it was more than a little frustrating.
I am going to try one last time to share what I have learned (in part from B&B) with the Brotherhood here. The links I am presenting are to three articles which are hosted on my personal website which I created expressly to freely share this information. There are no "affiliation" links, there are no ads on the website, I still firmly refuse to sell my soap. The reason they are hosted externally is that I needed a degree of freedom in the formatting, the content, and the license under which it is released. These needs are not met here or in the other forum which played a role in the development of this recipe - nor am I suggesting that is a fault. A forum is one form of media, I needed a different one.
I will not ask your name, I will not ask your email address, I will not ask for donations, I will not hide links to products that secretly shave off a few pennies to me. I'm not even using Google Analytic to track visits. Hell, there's not even a hit counter (unless there's one hidden somewhere in WordPress?). I will not take product donations in return for featuring suppliers, I will not sell my soap. What I will do is share freely and honestly what I have learned in the hope it may benefit someone else.
So, without any further jabbering, here's how to make your own shaving soap:
I suspect there's a 25% chance that somehow this will violate some other rule I missed in the pages of rules (which are necessary), so do create a shortcut if you want to look at them later. To the moderators and admins: all I ask is that you verify what I say is true before assuming a fault: that there is no commercial (or anti-commercial) interest here and that this does not violate the terms of use here - at least as I understand them. I'm just trying to give back, which really seems like what this forum is about.
The history of this particular soap is somewhat "checkered" as it relates to B&B. I make it and give it away and people who have thought to discuss it here have been met with post removal. I've been warned, I've been censored, I've been threatened probably because I thought to take umbrage with some of the crap out there being peddled to unsuspecting consumers. Fan-boys are funny that way. At every turn I've been discouraged from participating with B&B denizens in any aspects of this journey. I do not fault the administrators and moderators; where conflict exists it is far easier and makes far more sense for a volunteer staff to simply remove that which causes conflict. I would be lying however if I did not say it was more than a little frustrating.
I am going to try one last time to share what I have learned (in part from B&B) with the Brotherhood here. The links I am presenting are to three articles which are hosted on my personal website which I created expressly to freely share this information. There are no "affiliation" links, there are no ads on the website, I still firmly refuse to sell my soap. The reason they are hosted externally is that I needed a degree of freedom in the formatting, the content, and the license under which it is released. These needs are not met here or in the other forum which played a role in the development of this recipe - nor am I suggesting that is a fault. A forum is one form of media, I needed a different one.
I will not ask your name, I will not ask your email address, I will not ask for donations, I will not hide links to products that secretly shave off a few pennies to me. I'm not even using Google Analytic to track visits. Hell, there's not even a hit counter (unless there's one hidden somewhere in WordPress?). I will not take product donations in return for featuring suppliers, I will not sell my soap. What I will do is share freely and honestly what I have learned in the hope it may benefit someone else.
So, without any further jabbering, here's how to make your own shaving soap:
I suspect there's a 25% chance that somehow this will violate some other rule I missed in the pages of rules (which are necessary), so do create a shortcut if you want to look at them later. To the moderators and admins: all I ask is that you verify what I say is true before assuming a fault: that there is no commercial (or anti-commercial) interest here and that this does not violate the terms of use here - at least as I understand them. I'm just trying to give back, which really seems like what this forum is about.