Does/has anyone used a glycerin melt-and-pour soap that they feel performs as well as a top tallow or non melt-and-pour veggie soap? I never have but I'm all ears...
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Glycerin Melt and Pour Shaving Soaps
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The only soap that has come close to the performance of my QCS creams (tallow) is Van Der Hagen Deluxe (glycerin).
For that matter, the VDH Deluxe is surprisingly great for a soap you can pick up at the local drugstore or walmart.
I prefer the VDH Luxury over the Deluxe or Select ones, both for scent and a bit better on performance. I keep a puck of it in the rotation with the cella and tabac and such.
That's interesting. I think the VDH Luxury doesn't create as nice of a lather as the Deluxe, and it smells like deodorant!
Exactly! There is a lot of support on here for both the Deluxe and the Luxury. I'm just happy that there is an American company that makes something of high quality that is also inexpensive and easily available.
OldSaw
The wife's investment
I've had some that were pretty close, but for the most part none of them can touch Tabac or DR Harris.
Yes. YMMV.
VDH is excellent. Honeybee is as well but note that I have only tried her soaps as a stick.
The new VDH is great. It might not smell too wonderful (well, the lady loves it for some reason), but it gets the job done.
There is a 'new' Van Der Hagen?
My experience is limited, but I found Honeybee to be very slick and lubricating. Now that I've been using a couple tallow soaps I'm finding that I get fewer nicks with them. In retrospect I've concluded that the Honeybee provided less protection. Has anyone else found less protection from melt and pour?
The Luxury line. I'm pretty sure it came out within the last couple of months. If not, it was new to me. lol
I have been having fun with "uberlather". I add liquid glycerine and VDH Deluxe to different scented shave creams. (Proraso, TOBS Coconut, C&E Sienna, Taconic Mint and Eucalyptus just to name a few) They all shave fantastic and it is easy to change the variety of scent and still maintain a consistent shave quality.
Another vote for VDH deluxe, it has been a great no nonsense soap. Great performance, cheap to boot, smell is OK. It is worth a try.
I've only used it twice, but so far I am quite surprised by Ogallala Bay Rum soap. It's a much, much drier lather than my Harris or GFT soap and is best applied with painting strokes rather than my usual circular strokes, but the protection and shaves have been excellent. I thought the first shave might have been a fluke, but the second one today was just as good. It also seems to have a slight warming effect when first applied similar to the aftershave. I plan on discontinuing my rotation of other soaps for a couple of weeks to see if the good results continue.
How does one know for certain that a soap is a melt and pour soap?
Try a little more water when loading your brush, a few swirls in a tablespoon or two of water after loading should thin out your Ogallala so you can use your usual application method.
