Mentholated french shaving soap

[Mika.Red]

Hi everyone,
I'd like to introduce you a shaving soap that i discovered a few months ago. A french one.
It strongly smells mint (like an "Pastille de Vichy" a mentholated sweet) absolutly marvelous (if you like mint..)
It easily makes an very good/thick lather, (better than Tabac Soap IMOHO) very protective, which last for a long time.
It gives you a sweet cooling effect on the face.

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Ingredients are:
potassium palmate, sodium palmate, potassium stearate, potassium palm kernalate, glycerin, aqua, asinae lac, butyrospernum parkii butter, mentha arvensis oil, palm kernel acid,limonene, linalol.
+ 10% of donkey milk


Shape is not very practical, (square base???) but it's a mid-hard soap and can easily be transfered into a round can.

I don't know if the maker/seller sells overseas but, just in case, here's the link to his store: http://www.savonneriedubonberger.com/crbst_1.html (looks for these french words : savon à barbe) it cost a cheap 7€ (something like 9 US $) for 100g (3.5 oz)


I'm in no ways affiliated with this guy and i have nothing to gain, but everyone (from a french traditional shaving forum) who tried his soap likes it.


So, if you have a chance to try one of these, lets go !
And i'm sorry, i can't compare it to Martin de Candre because i've never tried it...

 

[clk]

It looks interesting, but I don't speak french and could not navigate their website. Such is life.

 

[Mika.Red]

It looks interesting, but I don't speak french and could not navigate their website. Such is life.

Have you tried Google Chrome browser ? it has a good auto-translation feature.
Usually works well with English / French / German.

 

[Omp]

It looks like they offer shipping to EU countries for 5 Euros on top of what you order. That's a pretty fair charge. At 12 Euros, for a what the OP says is a well regarded soap, it might be worth a punt.

 

[Member357]

I like the sound of that soap!

 

[Mandina]

Oh great: just when I thought I would be content with my current 30 or so soaps . . .

An excuse to visit Giat, France? http://www.francethisway.com/places/a/giat-puy-de-dome.php

 

[Luc]

I sent them an email to check if they ship overseas.

Their answer was (estimated) 24€ for 1 kg of soap.

 

[Mika.Red]

Oh great: just when I thought I would be content with my current 30 or so soaps . . .

An excuse to visit Giat, France? http://www.francethisway.com/places/a/giat-puy-de-dome.php

30 soaps ! impressive !
I've just count mine's and i only get over 30 if i include shaving creams...
Oh yes France is great, especially "Auvergne région" (ok ok it's where i was born...)

 

[Mika.Red]

I was thinking that only Cella was sold by 1 kg...
24€ for 10 soaps seems a good deal... if you have 9 other friends interested in...

 

[zumo]

saludations.

 

[brothers]

***-milk menthol shaving soap from France. Ok. I've subscribed to this thread, just in case someone decides to to a CONUS group buy. I mean, isn't that the point?

 

[lu20vt]

Soap awesome! with a peppermint scent very pleasant and natural

 

[OtherMoe]

***-milk menthol shaving soap from France. Ok. I've subscribed to this thread, just in case someone decides to to a CONUS group buy. I mean, isn't that the point?

+1 on the group buy!

 

[VT_Hokie]

ingredients list looks promising...

 

[christhach]

Am I the only one that laughed out loud when I saw the ingredient: "donkey-milk"?

But seriously, it does look like a great soap. The French know what they are doing when it comes to soaps, no doubt. I'm a big lover of Cade, PdP & Institute Karite.

 

[brothers]

I don't know any French, but I think I am seeing two varieties of shaving cream in addition to the shaving soap.

 

[Phog Allen]

Mika.Red this is not helping my acquisition disorders. I have already tried and succumbed to Provence Sante, Institut Karite, and Pre de Provence. Now this comes up. And nice packaging as well. Can you describe the menthol content? Is it very strong? I do not like face freezing menthol and if this is heavily mentholated I will probably not buy it. I notice you mention both mint and menthol. Are you speaking of the same thing or do you mean it is scented with mint and contains menthol as well? Thank you for sharing.

Cheers, Todd

 

[brucered]

I couldn't find the other thread I had posted on, in regards to this soap, so this one will do.

A while back I was pif'd a small sample of this soap (mint) and found it to be just OK. it was airy, not very creamy and seemed to not last on my face. But recently I was the recipient of a 3017 PIF from member "brothers" that included a full 100g Stick of the mint. I cut it in 1/2 thinking I'd tackle 50g of it and maybe PIF the other 50g, but that may be changing now.

I like to bowl lather, so I cut the 50g portion into chunks and pressed them into my soap dish and let it settle over night for this mornings shave. I soaked my brush, gave it a squeeze to get the excess water out but still leave the tips wet. I then lathereded on the puck for about 30sec.

I was rewarded with enough lather for my entire shave, some left over and no issues with breakdown. The shave was perfect! A mild mint scent is what I get, thick and creamy lather that did not break down in the mug (dry brush scuttle) or on my face. Post shave feel was also fine, no issues. It paired nicely with my RR Professional Lube (preshave) and my NB Signature Balm for my AS.

Overall, I was very impressed with the initial use and will continue to give it the 3017 treatment and expect it to last about 25 days (give or take).

Coming off using a 45g hunk of LaToja pressed into the mug the same way, I had my doubts it would live up to that standard, but it did. In fact, it was every bit as easy to lather and the shave qualities (slickness, cushion) were similar but the scent was much nicer on the Savone Menthe. It's not a strong scent but there is enough to make it enjoyable and in no way did I ever think synthetic.

I will update any issues amd/or more thoughts over the next month when I will be using it daily.

 

[brucered]

One week down with the Donkey Soap and a weeks of awesome shaves.

 

[olschoolsteel]

So if you mixed it with anything, can we call it Mule soap? (my attempt at a half *** joke)

Just kidding bro, it's always nice to find small or unknown gems just like this.