Can you melt Tabac?

[delnative]

After reading so many good things about Tabac, I finally broke down and ordered a puck. When I opened the package I found that the puck won't fit into my shaving mug.
I've read some posts about people melting soap in the microwave. Should I do that for the Tabac, or just get a bowl?
Thanks.

--Jim in Delaware

 

[40boy]

Do not put it in the microwave.
Grate it with a cheese grater and press it into your mug.

 

[mmack66]

Nope, but you can grate it into a bowl. Tabac is a tallow based soap and melting it will ruin it. Most glycerin based soaps can be melted, however.

 

[FLTiger]

If the difference isn't that bad, you can also shave the sides of the puck until it fits your mug.

 

[strat1117]

If the difference isn't that bad, you can also shave the sides of the puck until it fits your mug.

I would go this way, rather than grating up the whole puck.

Or, you could just get another one with the dedicated bowl for only a couple dollars more.

 

[gollum83]

I would go this way, rather than graing up the whole puck.

Or, you could just get another one with the dedicated bowl for only a couple dollars more.

+1 Get the Tabac in a bowl and use your current puck as a refill.

 

[delnative]

Thanks, all, for the quick and educated responses.
I think I'll shave the puck and then shave myself.

--Jim in Delaware

 

[Schwert]

I just trimmed off the edges, dropped those in my mug and pressed the puck in. It is quite a soft puck.

 

[BROWNS]

Looks like everyone already got you your answers, but congrats on the Tabac purchase!

 

[mdunn]

Looks like everyone already got you your answers, but congrats on the Tabac purchase!

Yes indeed, congrats on getting some. Tabac is to soap, as lamborghinis are to cars

 

[Hughies_online]

Great choice of purchase!

 

[ArcticShaver]

I had a question similiar to this but for glycerin soaps. I called Colleen Hurley from The Gentlemen's Quarter and she said that the best thing to do is not to melt most soaps, but use a cheese grater (pizza cheese size flakes) and press the flakes into a container. This gives you more surface area to lather on, making a quicker lather. Also, some soaps have colloidal particles (really small suspended solid particles in the soap, like clouds in the sky, but soap instead) and if you grate the soap the particles stay suspended, but if you melt the soap and don't stir the colloidal particles will settle at the bottom of your soap ruining some of the properties the soap maker wanted in his/her soap.

 

[mretzloff]

Do neither. Get the Tabac bowl. It is only $4 more and looks great.

 

[kingfisher]

I had a question similiar to this but for glycerin soaps. I called Colleen Hurley from The Gentlemen's Quarter and she said that the best thing to do is not to melt most soaps, but use a cheese grater (pizza cheese size flakes) and press the flakes into a container. This gives you more surface area to lather on, making a quicker lather. Also, some soaps have colloidal particles (really small suspended solid particles in the soap, like clouds in the sky, but soap instead) and if you grate the soap the particles stay suspended, but if you melt the soap and don't stir the colloidal particles will settle at the bottom of your soap ruining some of the properties the soap maker wanted in his/her soap.

Thanks for sharing this information. I found this very interesting. I trust Colleen; she knows what she's talking about.

 

[Klarion]

Do neither. Get the Tabac bowl. It is only $4 more and looks great.

This. Someone's also said Fragrance X is selling it with free shipping, if you know the coupon code. So $13.99 total.

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