I love de Vergulde Hand and wanted to replenish my stock. I'm unable to find any in stock anywhere. Does anyone know what the deal is with this venerable brand?
Their links on where to get product all points to .nl URLs. They might just not list foreign places though.just did a quick look and some products are available on German Amazon. Also their website is online and does not look abandoned (Home) but I do not understand Dutch...
I love de Vergulde Hand and wanted to replenish my stock. I'm unable to find any in stock anywhere. Does anyone know what the deal is with this venerable brand?
Great!! This one is definitely on my ‘to try’ list!!
They are the OEM manufacturer of all Fine soaps AFAIK.
Do you have some reference or proof of this? Please post it.
It's something I read posted on forums and reddit.
No evidence then .... internet lore and not common knowledge. I don't think it's made in the same place judging by the differences in the soap, shape, ingredients and would like to see some proof.
I understand how outsourcing works, thanks.
I surely don't believe everything I read on reddit and shaving forums.
I'm just saying the products are so vastly different in looks and feel, plus de Vergulde Hand is tallow free, I doubted that they come out of the same factory.
You may be right. Fine is a Dutch soap made in the Netherlands. How many Dutch soap manufacturers are there with the ability to mass produce triple milled soaps and emboss logos. Maybe Dille en Kamille? Then there are artisans like Scheermonnik, but he's small batch soft soap operation. I don't know of another soap manufacturer that has the capacity of De Vergulde in the Netherlands.It has to be a soap maker that has machinery for triple-milling and embossing logos, with production capacity large enough to steadily meet demand worldwide in multiple scent profiles. And it has to be a soap maker based in the Netherlands.
Such large commercial soap maker shouldn't have a problem making different soap bases and scent profiles as long as you order enough and consistently. We can only guess, but De Vergulde Hand is a soap factory in Amsterdam, founded in 1554. Good candidate IMO.
It is a cheap soap. There is a way to dial to where the performance is on par with Proraso.Although being Dutch and having used this soap for the first time almost 40 years ago I never liked it.
It dries very fast.Shaving isn't smooth at all.
I've been using Speick creme for a real long time.
Costs almost nothing (less than 3 $ over in Germany) and gives the smoothest blade ride ever.
Regardless, Fine is often overlooked today in the latest artisan flavor of the month deluge. That's too bad as it is great shave soap!!
Ok.You may be right. Fine is a Dutch soap made in the Netherlands. How many Dutch soap manufacturers are there with the ability to mass produce triple milled soaps and emboss logos. Maybe Dille en Kamille? Then there are artisans like Scheermonnik, but he's small batch soft soap operation. I don't know of another soap manufacturer that has the capacity of De Vergulde in the Netherlands.