Hello, well wishes to you all! I am currently researching the supplies needed for a streamlined transition into wet shaving. Regarding soaps/lathers/etc, in evaluating my options, I had the above question about shaving soap pucks/bars (as I would like to avoid an unnecessarily large unusable stockpile ).
Unscented is a critical feature in all my products. For hand/body bar soaps, and shampoo/conditioner bars, it’s been a struggle because they absorb so much fragrance around them, from production to delivery, that it renders them essentially fragranced. They don’t air out effectively, and washing or otherwise removing layers to get them back to an unscented state loses so much that it’s wasteful and costly. I’ve ended up using bottles instead of bars for those.
Given the different makeup of shaving soap pucks/bars, my main question is: do unscented shaving soaps absorb fragrances that they’re exposed to? Corollary questions:
It’s not a consideration I saw mentioned in the threads when I searched. However, I’ve also not seen tons of internet discourse on the hand/body soap bar issue either…so I’m not sure if it's because it’s a non-issue for unscented shaving soaps, as they don’t absorb fragrances; or, if they do, but it’s just not been discussed much. I realize scents are very relative to the person, and that everyone has different experiences. But, wondering if your noses have any experiences that could aid mine, haha.
Thank you so much!
Unscented is a critical feature in all my products. For hand/body bar soaps, and shampoo/conditioner bars, it’s been a struggle because they absorb so much fragrance around them, from production to delivery, that it renders them essentially fragranced. They don’t air out effectively, and washing or otherwise removing layers to get them back to an unscented state loses so much that it’s wasteful and costly. I’ve ended up using bottles instead of bars for those.
Given the different makeup of shaving soap pucks/bars, my main question is: do unscented shaving soaps absorb fragrances that they’re exposed to? Corollary questions:
- If there is some fragrance absorption, does it require a lot of soap loss in the washing or layer removal to get them back to unscentedness?
- If applicable, what minimum time frames have you found most effective for airing out soaps back to unscentedness?
- Are softer shaving soaps more likely to absorb fragrances than harder shaving soaps (and if so, is it significantly different)?
It’s not a consideration I saw mentioned in the threads when I searched. However, I’ve also not seen tons of internet discourse on the hand/body soap bar issue either…so I’m not sure if it's because it’s a non-issue for unscented shaving soaps, as they don’t absorb fragrances; or, if they do, but it’s just not been discussed much. I realize scents are very relative to the person, and that everyone has different experiences. But, wondering if your noses have any experiences that could aid mine, haha.
Thank you so much!