What shaving soap will still be around a hundred years from now?
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Id say that the non-artisan soaps will still be around like Arko, Speick and Tabac. Most, if not all of the artisans probably wont be around though because they all will retire and unless their kids decide to carry on soap making, they wont be around.
Really, its OK though. In the short time that Ive been wet shaving (4 years), Ive seen artisans come and go and shaving still rolls on.
Really, its OK though. In the short time that Ive been wet shaving (4 years), Ive seen artisans come and go and shaving still rolls on.
And then some of the cockroaches will be saying the lather with Arko has great cushion, and other cockroaches will refuse to use it down to it's scent.
They won't be able to write on forums about their experiences though.
tabac
Well, Geordi did shave with some kind of lazer razor...
Arko!
Two things a lot of us shaving snobs like to forget about are:
1- hard water is a reality a lot of people have to deal with, and a few staple soaps like Haslinger do it better than any artisan soaps.
2- Arko. The tubs will come and go ~13 more times over the next 100 years, but that lathered man will be smiling up at us from foil wrappers forever.
Also Nobody said Mitchell’s wool fat? I’ve never used the stuff, but the claim to fame is an unchanged formula since 1897 and many people still insist it’s the best post-shave in the game.
1- hard water is a reality a lot of people have to deal with, and a few staple soaps like Haslinger do it better than any artisan soaps.
2- Arko. The tubs will come and go ~13 more times over the next 100 years, but that lathered man will be smiling up at us from foil wrappers forever.
Also Nobody said Mitchell’s wool fat? I’ve never used the stuff, but the claim to fame is an unchanged formula since 1897 and many people still insist it’s the best post-shave in the game.
Arko, Proraso, MWF, Haslinger, Cella.
Arko
^^^ This. This was funny!
This is an interesting question. If we consider history we know shaving has been around since very early antiquity, clamshells or sharpened stones and bones--to we modern gents that's barbaric, but then at some point we used leaves or straw (or worse) to wipe with . . . you work with what you have.
Yes, some cultures utterly eschew shaving opting for the lengthy, plentiful beard. Not my thing, but I'm American, a product of relatively young Westernization and consumerism. Drives me nuts to see athletes sporting ridiculously huge beards--again, I know it's a personal thing, just makes me crazy. And again, that's my cultural prism my perspective is filtered through.
But plenty of cultures (I would suppose mostly Western) have long favored shaving as part of being 'civilized'. Our hard wired desire for some kind of grooming leads me to believe shaving itself won't disappear until humnas do, and at our current rate that might not take but a few more centuries. IF that's the case, all those folks will still require some kind of lather to accomplish the task, unless they choose to chemically burn it off, or the aforementioned gene editing. But where's the fun in that?
I concur with the general consensus that artisans will likely ebb and flow, appear and disappear, but we will always find something new, perhaps something truly innovative and exciting on the horizon.
Yes, some cultures utterly eschew shaving opting for the lengthy, plentiful beard. Not my thing, but I'm American, a product of relatively young Westernization and consumerism. Drives me nuts to see athletes sporting ridiculously huge beards--again, I know it's a personal thing, just makes me crazy. And again, that's my cultural prism my perspective is filtered through.
But plenty of cultures (I would suppose mostly Western) have long favored shaving as part of being 'civilized'. Our hard wired desire for some kind of grooming leads me to believe shaving itself won't disappear until humnas do, and at our current rate that might not take but a few more centuries. IF that's the case, all those folks will still require some kind of lather to accomplish the task, unless they choose to chemically burn it off, or the aforementioned gene editing. But where's the fun in that?
I concur with the general consensus that artisans will likely ebb and flow, appear and disappear, but we will always find something new, perhaps something truly innovative and exciting on the horizon.
My puck of Pre de Provence.
Historically, shaving has always gone in and out of fashion. I don't see any reason to believe that it won't continue to flip-flop, 100 years from now. In the grand scheme of things, human evolution seems to be favoring a decreasing amount of body hair, so my guess is that facial hair will disappear altogether, at some point. (That is, if humanity doesn't wipe itself out first, which is the outcome that I'm betting my money on.)
martin de candre, haslinger.
They are good, and cover the low and high end market segments. The haslinger brand has survived the longest, but is the current version just like it was in 1897? doubtful. Is it as good? unknown unless they make a batch of the original recipe.
MDC,,,, seems better and better the more I read about it. Sure no tallow, so the muslims will be happy happy about it. But otherwise the longevity is key. So is the exclusivity implied by its history and production
They are good, and cover the low and high end market segments. The haslinger brand has survived the longest, but is the current version just like it was in 1897? doubtful. Is it as good? unknown unless they make a batch of the original recipe.
MDC,,,, seems better and better the more I read about it. Sure no tallow, so the muslims will be happy happy about it. But otherwise the longevity is key. So is the exclusivity implied by its history and production
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It's funny that you mentioned Martin de Candre as I recently had gone back to it. I had purchased it a while ago tried it for a bit, then went on to others that I had. Just experimenting on what I had accumulated to that point.
I saw the MDC sitting in a corner and decided to use it. It was slick and worked very well.
The thing about it though was how little was required on my brush to making great lather. As I remember, it was a bit expensive but for how little is required and how long the jar would last it seems a good buy as it also works great!
Mike
its one of the few current production soaps that could be put on a shelf and last 50+ years
I have never used the tallow version of Haslinger. The new formula is vegetable based. I rank the performance as OK, but no better. The slickness is excellent but it could use more cushion/protection and postshave is lacking. Since the formula changed recently, I doubt it will be around another 100 years.
Cella, it's already 100+ years old. I can see it lasting 100 more.
Maybe we are the cockroaches.
Nah. The roaches will survive the nuclear holocaust.
We wet shavers however won't survive a reformulation of our favourite tallow soap.
