Marseille and Castile superlather?

[Judge Dredd]

For my 100th post, I'm celebrating by starting a new thread

Perhaps this is more appropriate for the soap forum, but because I have more creams than soaps, I'm playing the numbers

I've seen folks discuss the pros/cons of shaving with Marseille soap (savon de Marseille) and also Castile soap.

I haven't used either yet, but I noticed that my little one's all-in-one wash is a Castile soap in a self-foaming pump pack. It produces a very slick product that doesn't want to rinse off.

Got me thinking whether a superlather of both Marseille and Castile could work. Would the whole be worth more than the sum of the parts?

Anybody here tried it, or willing to try it and post the results of their experiment?

 

[Judge Dredd]

I think I found the answer.


A post on another forum suggested that the Marseille/Castile superlather is nothing more than the Hydrolast method of shaving: http://www.theshavingroom.co.uk/forum/thread-8135.html.


I've never used the Hydrolast products, but I know a cube of Marseille when I see one, so if this suggestion is correct, then it makes some sense.


I'm not denigrating the Hydrolast product or process, but the obfuscatory "introductory" reading material does a very good job of concealing the essence of the products - I am none the wiser after visiting the sites and reading the voluminous and meandering material, and I read voluminous and meandering material for a living.


If the Hydrolast system is really no more than a Marseilles/Castile superlather, then the reading material appears to be very effective at distracting one from this simple discovery. It’s possible that the RMWS is simply one presentation of the “discovery” of a Marseilles/Castile superlather.


Does anyone (preferably with experience with the Hydrolast product and the RMWS) know whether it is a simple Marseilles/Castile superlather, or whether it is more complex than that? As I said, I’m not looking to denigrate the product (and I know this is a sensitive issue), and am truly curious and looking to advance my knowledge because it seems to me that the only unique characteristic of Hydrolast/RMWS is its reliance on quantities of confusing documentation.