Has anyone ever shaved with regular soap like Ivory or Dial soap? I'm not planning on trying it. I'm just curious what the end result would be. Does it leave your skin dry? Is it less slick than most shaving soaps? Just curious.
I'm going to try this.I tried it recently with Dove Men + Care, just for the heck of it. The results were adequate but poor, I could stand it for a few days if I had to while a real shave soap was in the mail or something.
Here is a link to the official Ivory directions for using it as a shave soap;https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/attachments/ivory_dadshave-jpg.141853/
I didn't follow these with the Dove, no rinse after the first lather build, maybe I'll try it again sometime following these directions more exactly.
This.I've shaved with bar soap and with shampoo over the years on a few occasions when I didn't have shave soap. It's certainly not ideal. Slickness is an issue. But it gets the job done in a pinch.
Nailed it!Life is too short to shave with bath soap IMO! The worst thing I can say about a shaving soap is, “This one belongs in the bath!”
Just tried following the Ivory instructions with Kirk's Castile soap.
Used the soap bar as a stick, built the first lather which was very bubbly, wiped the first lather off my face with a washcloth and re wet my face, then applied lather from the brush with mostly painting strokes. The resulting lather was much less bubbly. There was very little cushion, but as a straight user cushion is not really desirable IMO. Barely had enough lather for the third pass, but got a very close smooth shave.
So far the post shave face feel is very good. I will report back if this changes.
Not switching away from shave soaps, but it's nice to know that this is very workable and could save a trip to the drug store and purchasing a shave soap that you don't really want while waiting for a mail order.
At a meet that I attended last year they had a 'lie soap challenge' as a lark. This was a homemade lie soap that they got somewhere [like the brown lie laundry soap from the old days]. The two brave volunteers tested the soap on their inner arms to make sure that it was not going to burn them or anything. Both volunteers reported it working much better than they thought it would. No one else at the meet rushed to try it.