Converting hard soaps to shave sticks

[atison]

I know the shave stick thing has been talked to death, but I have a little more specific question.

Turning glycerin soaps into shave sticks is easy, but I have some tallow/milled soaps coming and really prefer the shave stick method even over rubbing the puck on my face.

I know the process is to grate them and then press them into the stick container, but I am uncertain whether it is best to add a little water, or then drop the stick into a warm/hot tub of water to let it seat into the stick container.

Want to make sure I get a consistent fill.

Anyone else do this regularly that has a proven method with hard/tallow soaps?

The soaps I will be doing this with are:

MWF
DR Arlington
Possibly Tabac (might use it in the bowl it comes in though)

And I will be using WCS empty stick cases.

Thanks

 

[mretzloff]

Grate your soaps, pour the gratings into the stick, and press down a little bit. You could add a drop or two of water on top, but the pressure alone should do it.

 

[MikekiM]

Grate your soaps, pour the gratings into the stick, and press down a little bit. You could add a drop or two of water on top, but the pressure alone should do it.

Exactly what I just did with MWF... I grated half the puck using a cheese grater. Half of that went in a small covered tub and half went in a cleared and cleaned twist up deodorant stick container.. No water needed. The grater was the hand crank type below.. The squiggly shavings were fine enough that they were easy to press together, yet large enough that they weren't like dust. Pretty much perfect..