I have seen there are many different made shaving soaps by vendors. My question has anyone tried them and what are you opinions?
Etsy shave soaps
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Etsy is going to be a total shot in the dark. You might find a few good shaving soaps, but most of them will be abysmal.
Every soap maker thinks they can make a shaving soap. Most just take their standard bath soap recipe, and add some clay to it. The result is a worthless shaving soap.
Also, in general, any shaving soap where olive oil is high on the ingredients list is going to be totally worthless for shaving!
My advice would be to not waste your money looking for the one good (good, but probably not great) soap out of hundreds of products, but instead spend your money on tried and true proven products.
I respectfully disagree. There are some good artisans out there and Etsy is a good way for them to get started. Granted, most are sophomoric, but most will provide samples. A great deal of the fun in this hobby is just experimenting and learning.
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I purchased a couple of pucks from Mundus off Etsy, and they are very good soaps. Their scents are a bit more perfumey than I like, but the performance is very good.
Like the others said, avoid soaps with high olive oil content. Or, another way of saying it would be to try out the tallow soaps available. Most are cheap, so even if you get a dud, you won't be out much.
Like the others said, avoid soaps with high olive oil content. Or, another way of saying it would be to try out the tallow soaps available. Most are cheap, so even if you get a dud, you won't be out much.
I have tried the goat milk soap from Sundance Soapery in Kentucky. It is a one woman operation and her name is Deena. The shaving soap comes as a puck and there are several scents. It is good stuff. It lathers up great and the price is very reasonable.
cottontop
cottontop
HTGAM was only on ETSY for a while and is an unbelievable soap. Know your ingredients and talk to the soap maker, that alone will tell you know knows what they are doing and who definitely doesn't.
She must have reformulated because I tried a puck and gave one to a friend and we both could not get anything but thin sudsy lather out of it. Made a nice hand soap.
You might be right. I always add a dab of tubed shaving cream to soap and then lather it up. I am not using the soap alone so most of the lather could be coming from the cream, but I'm not sure.
cottontop
A very good soap that will hang with the best of them. Just about out and going to reorder more.
Is Madam Scodioli still on Etsy? She was kind of the start if the Etsy-shave soap experience. She popped up in the radar a few years ago, B&B swarmed in and cleared out her soap and then the hubbub kinda died down. I know a lot of her soaps were heavy with FO....scents were amazing but burned my face (and some others on B&B)...not sure if she ever reformulated...
Mundus is a great Etsy product.
Haven't tried their (her?) soap, but I love the 3 solid colognes I have.
I have a pretty limited budget. I'll let other people wade through all of the horrific products looking for the one gem. When they recommend it to the board, and it receives glowing reviews from others, then I'll buy it.
Finding the diamond in the rough is best left to those who are not newbies, and not on a tight budget.
I agree with this man.
I have no doubt that there are some gems out there, but I'm more than content with MdC, AoS, C&S, among 2 dozen others
