Tabac shave soap
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I use Tabac stick in my rotation.
It is superb, leaves the face feeling very soft post shave . The scent is a bit old fashioned I must admit.!
It is superb, leaves the face feeling very soft post shave . The scent is a bit old fashioned I must admit.!
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Have any of you used Tabac in HARD water. I have no other choice as that is all we have. It left horrible soap rings in the sink and gunked up my brush. Operator problem or just hard water problem?
Love Tabac, it's my favorite in my rotation. Always a great shave.
Tabac is great. I have never had a bad shave with it. It's impossible to mess up the lather with it. I still have the same puck from 2012. I might need to buy another one though just so I can have one on standby.
Great stuff. Not a very masculine scent at all, but who cares.
Buy a bottle of DI or distilled water for lathering your soap. Such an easy solution to hard water problems.
This ^^^^^.
Buy the least expensive bottled water you can find and use that. Your face, the brush, and you soap will thank you.
DI or distilled water: 99¢ at Walmart; 30¢ at the local Water & Ice stores.
Thanks!! I got out my old Tabac puck that I haven't used for quite a few years, and it wasn't near as bad in the hard water as I remembered, plus, I was amazed at how much better my shave was. I have been using a glycerine based soap for a long time, and couldn't believe the difference. Going back to Tabac for sure. Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate them!
I've been stocking up on shave supplies all week, and one of my buys was a couple of refill pucks of Tabac.
Oh, yes, the water here at the tail end of the Mississippi is pretty much as hard as you'd expect. Using Tabac with the tap water has never gunked up my brush, and the soap scum is easy enough to wipe away as I clean up. But I've been dissolving a teaspoon or two of baking soda into the shave water. It makes the water much more slippery.
Good to know that soap can get saturated with water. I think I understand the rinsing part: after use, do not take the puck out of the container to clean it under running water, right?
But what exactly is 'bloom it'?
I have hard water and can’t remember having that issue, got some tabac I havnt used in ages, will give it a crack tomorrow and see
Sounds like a keeper.
Is it possible you aren't getting it as fresh from the factory as in years gone by? I'm in the US, and I've long known that though there are many exceptions, items imported from Europe often are not as fresh as those made in the US. One example: Comparing a local or regional microbrewery beer to a German brand of the same type, the superior freshness of the American beer can be obvious. In these days when cost cutting to the nth degree is routine, and transportation costs are high, I suspect that many goods are allowed to sit in warehouses much longer.
I live in Germany
The formula has changed significantly since the 80s ,smell wise.
It is much weaker.
