So after I finished up in the lab today, I ate and then didn’t know what to do. Somehow I ended up reading the packaging of an extra bar of Balea Milch & Honig cremeseife, which is DM Markt’s store brand bar of Milk and Honey hand soap. You get a 150g bar of it for a whopping 0.35€.
In any case, while reading the packaging, I noticed the first ingredient was tallow and thought, hmmm, that’s a good start for a shaving soap. Second ingredient coconut oil (sure, too much coconut oil would make a shaving soap drying, but it’s still a good ingredient for shaving soaps), third is glycerine, then talc (hmm, not aware of talc in shaving soaps, but whatever), then more coconut oil (as superfat I guess?), then fragrance, then milk proteins, then honey. All in all, not a bad list of main ingredients for a shaving soap.
So since I was bored, I decided to make a test lather of it with the boar brush I had laying around. Needless to say, I wasn’t expecting much, but got a really creamy and slick lather with no large bubbles (I was expecting to see lots of big bubbles), and it seemed like it was lasting on my hand surprisingly well.
I wasn’t planning on even trying to shave with it, but considering how promising the rest lather was, I might try once just to say I did. I know on some other threads folks say they have used hand soaps for shaving (to varying degrees of success), so perhaps this might not be as terrible an idea as it seemed when I first thought “wouldn’t it be funny to shave with that cheap bar of hand soap I’ve got laying around?”.
However, I’ve got two new creams I’m going to be reviewing first (since neither has a lot of reviews yet, and therefore perhaps my input would be interesting for people that are curious to try either of them. For the record, they’re каро (pronounced Karo in English) from Bulgaria, and Vicco Turmeric from India). But perhaps after I use each of those creams a couple more times to get a better feel for them before I review them, then I’ll give the handsoap a shot.
Anyone else randomly notice a handsoap of theirs has decent shaving soap ingredients?
In any case, while reading the packaging, I noticed the first ingredient was tallow and thought, hmmm, that’s a good start for a shaving soap. Second ingredient coconut oil (sure, too much coconut oil would make a shaving soap drying, but it’s still a good ingredient for shaving soaps), third is glycerine, then talc (hmm, not aware of talc in shaving soaps, but whatever), then more coconut oil (as superfat I guess?), then fragrance, then milk proteins, then honey. All in all, not a bad list of main ingredients for a shaving soap.
So since I was bored, I decided to make a test lather of it with the boar brush I had laying around. Needless to say, I wasn’t expecting much, but got a really creamy and slick lather with no large bubbles (I was expecting to see lots of big bubbles), and it seemed like it was lasting on my hand surprisingly well.
I wasn’t planning on even trying to shave with it, but considering how promising the rest lather was, I might try once just to say I did. I know on some other threads folks say they have used hand soaps for shaving (to varying degrees of success), so perhaps this might not be as terrible an idea as it seemed when I first thought “wouldn’t it be funny to shave with that cheap bar of hand soap I’ve got laying around?”.
However, I’ve got two new creams I’m going to be reviewing first (since neither has a lot of reviews yet, and therefore perhaps my input would be interesting for people that are curious to try either of them. For the record, they’re каро (pronounced Karo in English) from Bulgaria, and Vicco Turmeric from India). But perhaps after I use each of those creams a couple more times to get a better feel for them before I review them, then I’ll give the handsoap a shot.
Anyone else randomly notice a handsoap of theirs has decent shaving soap ingredients?