Tabula Rasa

Enablers! I ordered a cardamom too. Thank you gentlemen all.

I took Russian in college many years ago, my teacher was Ukranian from the old days and she'd put cardamom in her coffee. Good combination.

Cheers, Steve

Cardamom in tea (milk tea) is also pretty common in Indian Subcontinent, Afghanistan etc. and probably Iran. In fact, my wife and I went to an Afghan restaurant last night and had Milk tea with Cardamom. Now I have to try that in coffee too!

on Tabula Rasa, I ordered Vetiver and Tangerine, as I am having a vetiver kick lately.

Enablers! I ordered a cardamom too. Thank you gentlemen all.

I took Russian in college many years ago, my teacher was Ukranian from the old days and she'd put cardamom in her coffee. Good combination.

Cheers, Steve

Cardamom in tea (milk tea) is also pretty common in Indian Subcontinent, Afghanistan etc. and probably Iran. In fact, my wife and I went to an Afghan restaurant last night and had Milk tea with Cardamom. Now I have to try that in coffee too!

on Tabula Rasa, I ordered Vetiver and Tangerine, as I am having a vetiver kick lately.

Persian gulf countries (Kuwait, Saudi, Emirates, etc..) heavily use Cardamom in their coffee. As matter of fact, there is more Cardamom in the coffee than coffee! http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/arab...way-484900

Wow - that's a heavy dose of cardamom, I wonder if that isn't a typo. I was taught to make turkish coffee by lebanese friends & that is an insane amount of cardamom - one would have to use a lot of sugar to keep it from being too bitter.

I always have some ground cardamom in the spice cabinet & I'll occasionally add a touch to the coffee when I prepare a Bialetti - this method works quite well.

My tabula rasa also arrived this weekend - it is a face lathering masterpiece. Truly wonderful.. just placed an order for the lavender. If this stuff stays at this price it will cause a revolution.

Wow - that's a heavy dose of cardamom, I wonder if that isn't a typo. I was taught to make turkish coffee by lebanese friends & that is an insane amount of cardamom - one would have to use a lot of sugar to keep it from being too bitter.

I always have some ground cardamom in the spice cabinet & I'll occasionally add a touch to the coffee when I prepare a Bialetti - this method works quite well.

My tabula rasa also arrived this weekend - it is a face lathering masterpiece. Truly wonderful.. just placed an order for the lavender. If this stuff stays at this price it will cause a revolution.

Not a typo Saudi/Emirati (UAE) Coffee is wholly different from Turkish/Lebanese coffee. Here is another recipe, but checkout the color of the coffee!

Wow - that's amazing. You are right, it is not the same dark sludgy concoction. I will have to try it (with fresh dates!).

A wonderful spice understandably preferred by the mystics.

This is a really good soap. It's lather reminds me a lot of one my earlier versions of the vegans base. Fantastic residual slickness. The scent is reserved, 4/10 but stunning cardamom and citrus. The post shave is definitely top tier.

Agreed!

The lather is lighter than I remember but I quickly realized that has to do with the soaps I use today. GroomingDept, WhollyKaw (donkey), Haslinger, Mike's. Thicker, proctective coatings from these soap. The great thing is the shave and post shave are marvelous from TR. Scents are light but really well done.

Well, shave #1 with the TR cardamom this morning. Lovely scent, most everything else seemed average except that 1) it took a lot of product relative to other soaps and creams, 2) it isn't slick enough for my taste for straight razor shaving.

At it's 'native' price point, ABC from G&C would be a better cost/shave, and almost everything else would beat it handily. I used a 'double almond' based on comments here, and it was barely enough to load the brush with a 22mm Shavemac Finest for 2 passes.

I know how to lather, and in my Aesop bowl, it was showing all the signs of proper hydration yet it just was not very slick, the straight was feeling a little 'sticky' especially on following passes. I added some extra water to the brush between pass 1 and pass 2 even though the lather did not feel dry, no change.

Post shave was average, less than the other 'prime' creams and soaps. It did not leave a 'buttery' or 'tacky' skin feel, which is a plus.

I'll keep at it, but it's unlikely to improve much I believe. Suggestions appreciated.

Cheers, Steve

Another shave down with Tabula Rasa. It’s a good cream/soap just not great. We are just spoiled today with the soaps I mentioned above. They are in a totally different league.


“GroomingDept, WhollyKaw (donkey), Haslinger, Mike's.”

I would also call Mike’s Natural and Haslinger fairly average these days. I can’t believe I just wrote that but it’s true. Once I tried the top 2-3 soap makers today everything else pales in comparison.

Well, shave #1 with the TR cardamom this morning. Lovely scent, most everything else seemed average except that 1) it took a lot of product relative to other soaps and creams, 2) it isn't slick enough for my taste for straight razor shaving.
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I'll keep at it, but it's unlikely to improve much I believe. Suggestions appreciated.

Steve, sorry to hear the experience wasn’t better than that. Tabula Rasa is not one of my top soaps, but I do enjoy it a lot. I usually take out an amount the size of a single almond, spread it directly on the skin, and face lather from there. That has always worked for a nice two-pass shave (with not a lot of lather left over).

I hope your further shaves with the soap will improve. It’d be nice to hear how some of you others build lather with Tabula Rasa. Do you load directly from the tub? Face or bowl lather? How much water and when?