@ luc Brilliant review thanks for posting
If you compare something similar yes. So, if you compare the first pictures where a badger was used and this last set with a badger also. They are better. If you compare all the pictures I posted, I would say this is the second worse of the lot.Sorry, you call that improvement?
First they take the fat out of my hamburger....now they ruin a perfectly fine shave....wish I could hitch a ride with Marty McFly and go back to the 60's doggone!The new Tabac? So far, I'd describe it as "Underwhelming". I find the lather to be thin and bubbly regardless of brush selection or how much is loaded on the brush. Slickness is just meh.
I have soft water.
The scent is reminiscent of the old formula and lingers for a couple of hours.
I'm not giving up on it yet, it doesn't seem to have the performance of the old stuff.
First they take the fat out of my hamburger....now they ruin a perfectly fine shave....wish I could hitch a ride with Marty McFly and go back to the 60's doggone!
Yeah, just for the sake of fairness, we should consider this a success.
Taking a soap that basically would lather on its own, with any kind of brush, and make a new formula that would only make a decent lather using one very specific badger brush. The hair must come from a badger that lived an organic life, up in the High Mountains of China, massaged by monks, three times a day and sometimes at night as well. Only the very white tips and from behind the ears would be good enough to make a brush tabac-worthy.
Good thing they kept its name. Original.
They underestimate the power of word of mouth. Big problem in a world where a Haslinger (one random name amongst good cheap soaps) gives more for less. Anyway, nothing lasts forever.Yeah, just for the sake of fairness, we should consider this a success.
Taking a soap that basically would lather on its own, with any kind of brush, and make a new formula that would only make a decent lather using one very specific badger brush. The hair must come from a badger that lived an organic life, up in the High Mountains of China, massaged by monks, three times a day and sometimes at night as well. Only the very white tips and from behind the ears would be good enough to make a brush tabac-worthy.
Good thing they kept its name. Original.
That suggests that the shave sticks will go the same way, unless that has already been confirmed.I have a puck of the new version on the way from Pasteur’s. I am not a Tabac fanboy or a tallow fanboy for that matter, though I do like the old Valobra tallow hard soaps. I’m looking forward to giving it a whirl.
There seems to be an unspoken assumption in many posts in this thread that M&W could have continued the old formula. There is a post on another forum from M&W that outlines why they changed and the testing that they did on the new formula, the normal product usability tests but also a blind test with the old and new by barbers, who according to M&W, slightly preferred the new version. I cannot post a link so you’ll have to make do with a screen shot, both the original German and the English translation.
There are a number of products whose current formulations meet or exceed the older ones, Santa Maria Novella v3, Acqua di Parma v3, and Haslinger v3 come to mind. The current, new version of ABC is a completely different soap from the last version, and I rather like it. It’s slicker and cheaper. It’s still very new, but I would say that it is the equal of the old soap, especially if you use a straight razor.
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That suggests that the shave sticks will go the same way, unless that has already been confirmed.
Well, I'm scr#wed. I already had a fresh puck of tallow Tabac, but y'all convinced me to buy another just to be able to do the comparison. But the new one just came and it's the tallow formula, too. Two isn't enough to be a tallow Tabac hoarder, and I can't do the comparison either. Knowing my luck, I'd buy 2 or 3 more before getting one with the new formula, and then end up preferring the new formula. Arrrgh! Enough already for me, the rest of you please carry on.
@mozartman , StratMan is right.nothing wrong with an extra puck of tabac tallow
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