Favorite soap?

[roaduck]

After loads of requests from family and friends I am going to do what I did decades ago - make my own soap, shampoo, shower gel, disinfectant, perfume, aftershave and candles oh and medicines !
Just liquid extracts, tisanes, embrocations and salves plus I`ll get my mortar and pestle out and my pill - rolling machine - have some fun.
I`m a bit of a rusty medical herbalist - having not really practised for ages but I surprised myself the other week by totally getting rid of my friend`s mouth ulcer in half a day - I kid you not - the dentist couldn`t believe it - no antibiotics, no steroids, no extractions, no toothache haha.
Just some myrrh, garlic, peppermint and cypress essential oils plus alum powder, bicarb of soda, 3% hydrogen peroxide and Himalayan salt mouth-washes - done.
My friend was crying in pain and I couldn`t see her suffer - bless her - now she trusts witch doctors - haha - well I have an Org Chem degree as well !
My friend is scared of dentists and didn`t go to one for 25 years - oh well - nevermind.

So... as regards soaps I`m gonna get 5 litres of unrefined virgin olive oil and some caustic soda - put some thick rubber gloves on and mix in the absolutes and essential oils.
I`m not going to use chemical stabilisers and preservatives or artificial colours and I may try hot and cold mixes using tallow and glycerine and a double-boiler / bain-marie ( not a microwave lol ) , find my thermometer and jugs etc and do custom cosmetics and cleaning supplies.

For now I am using Wrights Coal Tar Soap and Pears glycerine because my new lady friend loves the smell - it takes her back to her childhood - aaawww.
I don`t use a shaving brush or a mirror so liquid soap is fine for me.

 

[RoyalHolic]

Use Duke Cannon seems to be good quality.

 

[CSG]

Arko, baby. Go cheap or go home! I also like some of the English brands (TOBS, GFT, and especially, Truefitt & Hill). I must have close to 20 different shaving soaps and creams (along with too many razors and brushes).

 

[brough]

Here is some of the hardware I run with the Sterling soaps. Have a fresh refill of Electric Sheep withe some coffee and bath soap coming in tomorrow. Going to try their new deodorant as well. I keep a tub of Razorock XXX around too.

 

[donnord]

What about shave soaps?

Williams Shaving soap is my go to favorite.

 

[Locutus D'Borg]

Ivory.

 

[Maximumbob54]

Some of you guys are super fancy! I've tried a few want to be fancy shave soaps and feel like the cheap stuff like Van Der Hagen to the actual fancy stuff acts about the same. If I found anything to be better it was the sort of translucent glycerin pucks of soap. I do prefer a warm water soaked boar brush to the softer and way more expensive badger brushes. I kept getting crazy specials on hundred packs of blades so I probably still have over a thousand double sided blades.

And yet I can shave just as well with some Softsoap or Head and Shoulders.

 

[Ironbut]

Some of you guys are super fancy! I've tried a few want to be fancy shave soaps and feel like the cheap stuff like Van Der Hagen to the actual fancy stuff acts about the same. If I found anything to be better it was the sort of translucent glycerin pucks of soap. I do prefer a warm water soaked boar brush to the softer and way more expensive badger brushes. I kept getting crazy specials on hundred packs of blades so I probably still have over a thousand double sided blades.

And yet I can shave just as well with some Softsoap or Head and Shoulders.

I've been shaving for over 60 years now, and I don't look on wet shaving as some spiritual ritual, that requires all kinds of special tools & accessories. It's just the most effective way I've found to scrape hair off my face.

 

[Maximumbob54]

It's just the most effective way I've found to scrape hair off my face.

It's just funny because so much of this forum is about over thinking things!!!

 

[Locutus D'Borg]

Favorite soap: Days of Our Lives.

 

[Lovebell Forrest]

For shaving, Paraso Red.
for the body, Ivory, been using it since the 50s.
Not the one with Marilyn Chambers on it, that was Ivory Snow.

 

[Steelboy]

*Barrister and Mann for the smells.
* Stirling for the best shave for the buck.
* Murphy and McNeil Kodiak for the ladies.

 

[jeffbird]

RazoRock Puros.

 

[roaduck]

I like multi-purpose trad French Marseille Soap - my fave is 72% Olive Fer 'a Cheval 2 KG (4.4 lbs) loaves.
It is super-fatted and has so much glycerine in it it moisturises deeply and is super slick - fabulous with a cut-throat.

I used a big bar of this in France and it lasted my family of four, two cats, two dogs, two horses, two goats and did the pick-up and caravan with it, used it for laundry, dishes, the walls, floor, shoe polish and toothpaste - plus shaving - it lasted over a year !