Tallow and butter

[Seraphim]

OK, so with much ballyho and whatnot about tallow, I thought I'd pontificate on the subject with my own ignorant and uninformed opinionated opinion:

All great soaps have tallow in them, yet not all soaps that have tallow in them are great.

-Seraphim

I think of it this way: a really great chocolate chip cookie is made with butter, and yet so are crappy lousy ones. The key is in the rest of the ingredients, and how they work with, and in concert with the butter.

So, that is why a soap like Tabac is so rich and delicious, and yet another tallow based soap like Williams is bland and tasteless.

You can make a cookie with some other type of oil/margerine/glycerine/whatever, and get a pretty decent tasting lowfat, whatever cookie. But the truly great CC cookies are made with reall butter, and plenty of it. Same with shaving soaps.

 

[norman931]

Nice analogy. I'll take butter over margarine any day, despite my high cholesterol!
But, I still think tallow is WAY over-rated.

 

[Confilo]

One ingredient alone does not make perfection; but tallow certainly contributes to it. as for the rest, we all know that margarine IS NOT butter

 

[tbone2]

I saw the title of this thread and thought you were shaving with butter like Kramer on Seinfeld

 

[FLTiger]

Coming to a shaving shop or drugstore near you....

I Can't Believe It's Not Tallow! Shaving Soap

 

[jkh]

Coming to a shaving shop or drugstore near you....

I Can't Believe It's Not Tallow! Shaving Soap

Coming soon!?!?!?! It's already here ... the one single word that makes every B&Ber shutter in horror ... reformulation.

 

[mdunn]

somehow, this makes perfect sense

though methinks seraphims cookies come with thumb notches. Or he at least buys chinese cookies and then adds thumb notches.

 

[Seraphim]

somehow, this makes perfect sense

though methinks seraphims cookies come with thumb notches. Or he at least buys chinese cookies and then adds thumb notches.

Really great cookies come hot out of the oven and sort of ooze around your thumb in an ersatz sort of a thumbnotch way....after 3-4 of them the only notches are the 2-3 I need to let out on my belt to make room for my expanding belly!

 

[Luc]

and I thought this was a thread about a tallow and butter shaving soap...

 

[mdunn]

Really great cookies come hot out of the oven and sort of ooze around your thumb in an ersatz sort of a thumbnotch way....after 3-4 of them the only notches are the 2-3 I need to let out on my belt to make room for my expanding belly!

hehe. theres a lot to be said for elastic waisted pants

 

[FLTiger]

hehe. theres a lot to be said for elastic waisted pants

Sansabelt!