Open Your Storage: Oldest Soap

[SliceOfLife]

Old soap? Gross. Who would use that stuff?


I mean I have a few vintage Williams Mug soap pucks, but they're not that old...

And there is that one 19th century Williams shave stick, but I mixed that with a new speick stick, so that doesn't count.

There is that one Cussons Imperial leather shaving stick, but I just got that because I bought the bakelite shaving kit and it was inside one of the travel tubes

Oh and that wood-boxed Torrey Shaving stick

And the Wrisley Saddle Club

Oh a couple of vintage bowls from the Rooney shave kit(not pictured)

And I might have three different era Colgate shaving sticks

And an Arway shaving stick

And a tube of Hess Shaving soap

And a puck of Surrey Shaving soap

Oh and I've got a couple shave bowls with no brand marking, and a half dozen shave bowl refills with no markings, a couple old spice and barbershop pucks

Oh, and maybe one pro-phy-lac-tic bowl

And perhaps a Luxor bowl and a Tawn bowl

And maybe one Yardley bowl

Oh and an ambassador bowl

And a buckingham lavender soap bowl

And maybe 4 or 5 Williams Currier and Ive's bowls


But that's it.

Oh yeah and that Resinol Medicated shaving stick from 1906...

but other than that, just fresh soaps for me.

 

[freeasimo]

Maybe I should have said vintage instead of old

 

[Rudy Vey]

I still use vintage Yardley that comes from the early sixties. Not much scent but the performance is stellar. And then I use also some very old Old Spice, also a great soap. Plus there is also Trumper's Rose from the 80's with tallow and Pen's EF. I do not use them very often as they cannot be replaced anymore, so they get a few uses per year.
There were a lot of great soaps out in the good ole days, too bad many are gone or have changed to the newer non-tallow version, like the the three T's and Pen's and Floris.....

 

[TechClone]

Everyone is cheating because those soaps from for example pre WWII are (presumably) not ones they have bought personally.

Mine is a can of Nivea shave gel which I got personally back in 1995 or maybe 1997. Used it a little while ago and it works just fine, but you can see why soaps are superior. Also have a tube of C&E WIL which I got when it first came out, so probably 2007 or so.

 

[SliceOfLife]

Yes, obviously that's true, excuse me while I hide my TARDIS behind a pile of vintage soap.

My oldest soap I bought new is a Kell's arabian spice tin... 11 years?

 

[freeasimo]

@TechClone Either way, I was just meaning whats the oldest/vintage soap you own, regardless of if you got it when it came to production

 

[romsitsa]

The oldest useable soap was a Rotbart stick from the 30-ies, was perfectly fine. Currently have a VEB Rosodont Florena, form the 50-ies. It also looks useable.

Adam

 

[Scarry Knight]

My great uncle’s Williams (?) puck, brush, and mug, which are most likely from the 60’s. I’ve yet to lather this puck.

 

[freeasimo]

Ohhh baby....lather porn pictures coming from vintage soaps...... lets see it!!!

 

[BrianP]

An old Musgo Real Shaving stick.

After that it's a few odds and sods from when i started wetshaving back in 2007. Trumpers Rose, tabac, are a couple that come to mind.

 

[SliceOfLife]

Theres some text remnants... can you make them out?


Maybe this era puck? 71-82

 

[Rudy Vey]

The oldest useable soap was a Rotbart stick from the 30-ies, was perfectly fine. Currently have a VEB Rosodont Florena, form the 50-ies. It also looks useable.

Adam

Oh, I haven't heard VEB for many years...
For the non-Germans here: VEB stands for Volkseigener Betrieb, or in English: People's owned Company - a typical eastern German term prior to the Re-unification in 1989....

 

[freeasimo]

@Rudy Vey I cant believe you responded on my thread!!!
Great knowledge! Deep appreciation.

 

[FaceScraper]

My oldest soap is an approx 70 year unopened Old Spice in mug. I wrote about it here

Old Spice Soap Mug Time Capsule

I just received this in the mail today off the bid site . According to old spice collectibles website this is the very first generation of old spice mugs made between 1948-early 1950s making this approx 70 years old. The lid on the mug is still with the original seal . Never been opened ...

www.badgerandblade.com

I also have a roll of vintage colgate barber soap which may actually be older.
I havent used any of these yet.
The oldest modern soap i still have and have been using is an out of production puck of
Barrister & Man Vetiver, Heather & Clary Sage which i really love and a puck of B&M Solstice. Both from maybe 2014 i think.

Oh i have been using an old spice soap from the 1970s and a williams puck from their anniversary edition 1975/76.

 

[GR5233]

My 2 oldest soaps are a kilo of Vito’s and a Valobra menthol

 

[freeasimo]

@GR5233 How old?

 

[GR5233]

@GR5233 How old?

Not sure on the ages of either but I guess I’d classify them as the ones that have been in my den the longest

 

[sgemmett]

Oldest I have by a long shot. I think I poked around to date this when I bought it, glastonbury CT puts it 60’s min, artwork on the box probably puts it somewhat older.

 

[freeasimo]

@sgemmett Really like that style of artwork.