Tallow or Vegan?

What's your preference in a shave soap?

I prefer a good tallow over a bad veggie. But I also prefer a good veggie over a bad tallow.



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

I'm not fussed as long as performance and scent are excellent.

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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All things being equal, I would choose the tallow soap.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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. There are some amazing soaps in both camps.