Mitchell's Announces New Vegan Product Line

[Jut]

Glad I kept reading before jumping to Amazon... about half way through the post I was about to order a dozen pucks!

 

[mozartman]

The vegan trend certainly seems to to have gathered momentum in the EU. Perhaps, following Brexit, the British will continue using tallow, although I have noted that many British products, especially shaving creams, already have gone the vegan route.

From a chemistry point of view, it is certainly possible to make a high quality vegan soap. However, in practice, there are very few vegan soaps that can match the performance of tallow-based soaps. However, the very best shaving soaps use a combination of animal-based fats and milk as well as seed and nut oils.

Animal fats are a byproduct of the meat-packing industry. As long as people continue to eat meat, there will be plenty of animal fats that can be used to produce soap. That cannot be said of some vegetable oils like palm oil. In South America, many virgin forests of palm trees are being cut down for the purpose of making palm oil, palm kernel oil, and other products. These palm oils are some of the most common oils used to make vegan soaps as well as cooking oil. Deforestation, in turn, is devastating the populations of the animals who depend upon the forests for habitat. Thus, in an effort to save some animals, some well meaning individuals may be contributing to the demise of other animals. It is a very complex world we live in; there are no simple answers.

In other words, there is no special benefit to all vegan soaps, environmental, economic, performance or otherwise. I don't have a particular preference for tallow-based soaps that many of you have, but I do have an aversion to dumb-a@@, phony, unscientific marketing nonsense.

 

[TBoner]

The overwhelming majority of palm oil is used to produce animal feed for commercial feedlots. I'm not a vegan, and I can acknowledge that tallow is a byproduct of demand for meat, but the reality is more complex than one vs. the other. Palm oil production is tallow production in many cases.

 

[HarryAU570]

@Atlantic59 well played sir…well played!

@Atlantic59 don’t ever made this awful heart attack joke about MWF becoming non-tallow version, otherwise, you’ll cause a major MWF tallow pandemic global panic attack online buying nightmare you heartless B**TA*D!!!

 

[JCarr]

Seriously though...if you want to try a slick vegan soap, look no further than Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements CK or CK-6 soaps.

 

[Atlantic59]

@Atlantic59 don’t ever made this awful heart attack joke about MWF becoming non-tallow version, otherwise, you’ll cause a major MWF tallow pandemic global panic attack online buying nightmare you heartless B**TA*D!!!

It's been years since I've been called a heartless B**TA*D! I can't tell if that is just your Australian charm or if you are really ticked off! Sorry about that.

 

[HarryAU570]

It's been years since I've been called a heartless B**TA*D! I can't tell if that is just your Australian charm or if you are really ticked off! Sorry about that.

 

[mattps1]

I wonder if the green folks are wondering what they are going to use all the beef bones (tallow)that are produced by the thousands of tons per day world wide now. What are they going to use tallow for now. Maybe we will be limited to eating beef by jacking up the price some more.

I'm pretty sure the tallow and abattoir waste is going to the biofuel market, as part of Net Zero in Europe/UK etc.

 

[VerbaVolant]

The wedge runs deep. No turning back now.

 

[Roy]

I'd welcome this new fictitious soap! For me, I found the tallow Haslinger performed worse than the veg versions.
Perhaps those who can compare the 2 Tabac versions could truly say whether the old tallow is better than the new version. Tallow isn't a God ! To me, its only in soaps as that was the only fat available to soap makers a century ago.

 

[Dave himself]

I didn't even get to reading anything I just saw the picture ran onto my wife's knee curled up in ball and sucked my thumb while crying uncontrollably

 

[Brutus]

It wasn't really meant to be mean, it's supposed to be funny! I was hoping it would start going off the wall somewhere in the middle of that fake press release...

You forgot to mention that the company was taken over by Gillete and production will subsequently be shifted to China.
After the relocation is completed, spokeswoman Sue Mitchell will be replaced by spokesperson Lan O Lin.

When questioned, the British Prime Minister stated that this was another success story where British industry proved to be successful in attracting foreign investment after Brexit.


B.

 

[snowman]

Good timing for this joke. With Williams being discontinued folks are a bit jumpy.