WOW....yes WOW. 
I was approached by Peter (Scritchnscrub) to see if I would want to try out his home-made soap he has been working on. Apparently it's been a long process, he kept it quite for a long time and is on batch 30+ with the soap. Needless to say, the sample he sent me from the current batch, he nailed it.
The soap has limited ingredients (9 including Tallow with NO lanolin), made by Peter in Canada, mild pepperminty scent and lathers like a dream. The only soap I can compare the texture to in puck form would be Vitos. It's not a hard tripled milled soap like PdP, but has the consistency and is malleable like MdC and Vitos.
As always, I do 1 test lather with any new product, so I pulled out my Rooney ST2 and gave it a while. I pressed my 50g sample in a soap dish, soaked my brush, gave it a good squeeze and started to lather on the puck gently. 10 sec there was not much happening, 20 sec, there was lather forming, 30 sec it was ready to try. I wet my hand, did some circular strokes and then some slapping/paining and it thickened up beyond belief.
The next day I was ready to test it on my face in a shave setting. Again, soaked brush and had my shower. When I got out I squeezed the brush and did the same 30 sec swirling and you will see from the pics below, there was not shortage of thick, creamy lather. The shave was flawless, the lather making was as easy as MdC and PdP and the shave was slick and had no post shave issues or irritation.
Day 2 (I'll continue my use of this soap for the next week or longer) I decided to leave more water in my brush. So I soaked my brush as usual and just gave a very gently squeeze, leaving most of the water in it. WOW, after about 15 sec of application, I seemed to have as much lather on my brush as the previous day. I continued to lather for my 30 sec and was rewarded with even more lather and an even slicker shave.
Weighing pre and post these shaves and test lather, it appears I am using approx 2.5g of soap per shave, which is in line with PdP and much less then other artisan soaps I have used in the past. I could likely get away with 15 sec of application time, but I didn't want to cut any corners and won't while I'm testing this soap out.
Ingredients: Steric Acid, Aqua, Coconut Oil, Glycerin, Potassium Hydroxide, Tallow, Caster Seed Oil, Sodium Hydroxide and Avocado Oil.
If this hits the market (fingers crossed it does), I wish him all the success he deserves for his dedication and trial and errors in getting this soap to where it is now.
Other artisan soap makers (and big names), you have been warned....A new soap may be hitting the shelves and dens of B&B members everywhere and it's one of the best soaps I have tried from the big names, small names and everything in between, including but not limited to MdC, PdP, Cella, RR, TFS, MW, QCS, Sterling, MB and Mike's.
Pressed in dish:
30 sec of application:
Overflow from applying to brush:
After pass 1:
Before pass 2:
Before pass 3:
After 3 passes and 1 left on face, from inside the brush:
I was approached by Peter (Scritchnscrub) to see if I would want to try out his home-made soap he has been working on. Apparently it's been a long process, he kept it quite for a long time and is on batch 30+ with the soap. Needless to say, the sample he sent me from the current batch, he nailed it.
The soap has limited ingredients (9 including Tallow with NO lanolin), made by Peter in Canada, mild pepperminty scent and lathers like a dream. The only soap I can compare the texture to in puck form would be Vitos. It's not a hard tripled milled soap like PdP, but has the consistency and is malleable like MdC and Vitos.
As always, I do 1 test lather with any new product, so I pulled out my Rooney ST2 and gave it a while. I pressed my 50g sample in a soap dish, soaked my brush, gave it a good squeeze and started to lather on the puck gently. 10 sec there was not much happening, 20 sec, there was lather forming, 30 sec it was ready to try. I wet my hand, did some circular strokes and then some slapping/paining and it thickened up beyond belief.
The next day I was ready to test it on my face in a shave setting. Again, soaked brush and had my shower. When I got out I squeezed the brush and did the same 30 sec swirling and you will see from the pics below, there was not shortage of thick, creamy lather. The shave was flawless, the lather making was as easy as MdC and PdP and the shave was slick and had no post shave issues or irritation.
Day 2 (I'll continue my use of this soap for the next week or longer) I decided to leave more water in my brush. So I soaked my brush as usual and just gave a very gently squeeze, leaving most of the water in it. WOW, after about 15 sec of application, I seemed to have as much lather on my brush as the previous day. I continued to lather for my 30 sec and was rewarded with even more lather and an even slicker shave.
Weighing pre and post these shaves and test lather, it appears I am using approx 2.5g of soap per shave, which is in line with PdP and much less then other artisan soaps I have used in the past. I could likely get away with 15 sec of application time, but I didn't want to cut any corners and won't while I'm testing this soap out.
Ingredients: Steric Acid, Aqua, Coconut Oil, Glycerin, Potassium Hydroxide, Tallow, Caster Seed Oil, Sodium Hydroxide and Avocado Oil.
If this hits the market (fingers crossed it does), I wish him all the success he deserves for his dedication and trial and errors in getting this soap to where it is now.
Other artisan soap makers (and big names), you have been warned....A new soap may be hitting the shelves and dens of B&B members everywhere and it's one of the best soaps I have tried from the big names, small names and everything in between, including but not limited to MdC, PdP, Cella, RR, TFS, MW, QCS, Sterling, MB and Mike's.
Pressed in dish:
30 sec of application:
Overflow from applying to brush:
After pass 1:
Before pass 2:
Before pass 3:
After 3 passes and 1 left on face, from inside the brush:
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...... "Made in Canada" too!
