It might be noise, but it is evolving, and so... it is AAAAAAAAALIVE!! ;-)
Legitimate question (OT), not an argument: Is Founders too big to be craft? Definitely no quality control issues there. So far I haven't had any bad Wholly Kaws, but let's face it I do not buy it as frequently as I do beer.I like the way you think but "artisan soap maker" is equivalent to microbrewery. It's still beer, but different to mass produced beer. You know, no aditives, ingredients usually not found in mass soaps, small batches, inconsistent QC
Legitimate question (OT), not an argument: Is Founders too big to be craft? Definitely no quality control issues there. So far I haven't had any bad Wholly Kaws, but let's face it I do not buy it as frequently as I do beer.
When some corporate weasel, hires some marketing genius and comes forth with a shave soap and says , soap is soap, and ours works just as good as any other shave soap at half the price.......that is probably what I wil switch over to, and buy.
Legitimate question (OT), not an argument: Is Founders too big to be craft? Definitely no quality control issues there. So far I haven't had any bad Wholly Kaws, but let's face it I do not buy it as frequently as I do beer.
I think it just sarted with shavers not finding what they wanted and deciding to try to make what they wanted.Probably started out as a sales gimmick. You know, " don't waste your money on this soap because our soap is more natural soap, and has xy and z in it." As the company grew, the " corporate weasels" hired marketing firms to whip up the frenzy even further. Then other Corporate weasels in other companies said to themselves, " hey we can do that because soap is soap.....and we can make soap so we will just make it smell different and stick our label on it and add a few ingredients that do not matter, but it will do the same thing for shaving as all the other shave soaps"
Before I started using Proraso, I used Edge Gel, Harry's gel, barbasol, Irish springs, Dove, Dawn dish soap, coast deodorant soap and whatever was available at the time. The true shave soaps worked better than Dawn dish soap.
But Dawn got the job done and was better than no soap at all. Edge and Harry's work just as well as Proraso, but Proraso is much more cost effective as a tub lasts MUCH longer than a can of Edge gel. Arka probably works just as well as proraso and is even cheaper. All the more expensive artisan soaps can take a hike. They cost more and look better when you take a picture of your 300.00 razor. That's about it.
When some corporate weasel, hires some marketing genius and comes forth with a shave soap and says , soap is soap, and ours works just as good as any other shave soap at half the price.......that is probably what I wil switch over to, and buy.
Legitimate question (OT), not an argument: Is Founders too big to be craft? Definitely no quality control issues there. So far I haven't had any bad Wholly Kaws, but let's face it I do not buy it as frequently as I do beer.
I believe this 6 million barrels can't be used universally and it should be taught that way.So I actually took a class in beer & brewing at our local community college a couple of years back and "craft" means you produce less than 6 million barrels per year
Ok, thanksI’m really starting to get a little tired of all this artisan this...artisan that references. Soap is soap! Who decided to brand any soap newer than twenty years with the artisan brand? How do you differentiate non artisan from artisan? You can’t because there is no such thing. It’s soap! There is no such thing as artisan soap! There are new soap companies, and old soap companies and they all make soap. Some are thicker, some are thinner. Some smell good, some smell bad. Some people feel more secure buying soap in a drugstore, some buy it online. So let’s give up all this bickering over a non relevant label that somehow snuck into the industry...and means absolutely nothing. A company that makes soap is a company that makes soap. Period!
I believe this 6 million barrels can't be used universally and it should be taught that way.
Total production of ALL breweries of our country in 2018 was 93 milion liters. 1 barrel is roughly 120 liters. That is roughly 775 000 barrels for the whole country. By that logic...all breweries in my country are craft?
Europe is bigger than I thought!... I assume you are in Europe ("check out the big brain on Brad...that's right....the metric system" - Jules Winnfield)...
Europe is bigger than I thought!
Only three countries in the world still use the Imperial system (USA, Liberia, and Myanmar).
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