#1
What's your preference in a shave soap?
#2
I prefer a good tallow over a bad veggie. But I also prefer a good veggie over a bad tallow.

Wink

In winter, tallow soaps are a bit more suitable to my skin but I use both in the other times of the year.

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San Diego, Cal., USA
I'm not fussed as long as performance and scent are excellent.

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#4
(11-02-2016, 10:19 PM)Freddy Wrote: I'm not fussed as long as performance and scent are excellent.
+1 Having said that most of my favorites are Tallow soaps, but some just have high concentrations of stearic acid.

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#5

Veni, vidi, vici
Vault 111
All things being equal, I would choose the tallow soap.

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#6

That Bald Guy with the Big Beard
Bishop, CA
I have a hard time discerning the difference if both are a high quality soap. I guess that means I have no preference, though most of my favorites do tend to fall in the tallow camp...L&L, Stirling, B&M, Crowne & Crane...

I have vegan and tallow both from Crowne & Crane and I cannot tell a difference in terms of performance at all...

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#7

Member
Detroit
I definitely prefer tallow, but I'll use good veggie soaps as well. I tend to have dry-ish skin so I think it likes the extra fat.
- Jeff
#8

Member
Nashville
IME, it's both more difficult and more expensive to create a vegan soap that matches or surpasses a tallow soap in many of the usual performance categories.

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(11-03-2016, 12:35 AM)j-mt Wrote: IME, it's both more difficult and more expensive to create a vegan soap that matches or surpasses a tallow soap in many of the usual performance categories.

This is why I use vegan soaps made by artisans that meet or exceed this standard. With that in mind, my soaps are now pretty much interchangeable. Now I just choose by scent.

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Member
Las Vegas, NV, USA
By the way, there is another thread where the same question was asked. Here’s the link, just for extra illumination:
https://damnfineshave.com/thread-tallow-...2#pid39552

To answer the question: both tallow and vegan, as long as I get to pick my favorites. Smile There are some amazing soaps in both camps.

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