Tallow or Vegan?

I don't have a preference. Great shaving soap performs really well regardless of base.

Tallow soaps are inherently better than vegan soaps, mostly due to the fact that most top tallow artisans soaps also contain lanolin and multiple butters. Lanolin really works wonderfull to me in regards to slickness and post shave. Nonetheless, there are some good vegan shave soaps but they cant reach the performance of tallow soaps since they cant contain lanolin.

Tallow soaps are inherently better than vegan soaps, mostly due to the fact that most top tallow artisans soaps also contain lanolin and multiple butters. Lanolin really works wonderfull to me in regards to slickness and post shave. Nonetheless, there are some good vegan shave soaps but they cant reach the performance of tallow soaps since they cant contain lanolin.

I don't believe that this is necessarily true some vegan soaps have moisturizing properties similar to Tallow soaps. Someone earlier in the thread suggested that vegan soap is harder to make good than Tallow soap, it seems that this postulate is a possibility. Unfortunately I don't know enough about the art of soponification to confirm or deny this theory. As I said earlier in this thread more of the soaps I love are Tallow based, but there are definitely some vegan soaps that are just as good as any Tallow soap.

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I like the one that has more slickness. I only prefer Tallow soaps concerning post Shave feel

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I prefer tallow, generally. But there are some very good vegan soaps as well (Saponificio Varesino is probably the best example). As long as it performs, I'm down. It's usually the other ingredients that make a bigger difference; lanolin, shea butter, kokum butter, avocado oil, tussah silk, etc.

I prefer tallow, generally. But there are some very good vegan soaps as well (Saponificio Varesino is probably the best example). As long as it performs, I'm down. It's usually the other ingredients that make a bigger difference; lanolin, shea butter, kokum butter, avocado oil, tussah silk, etc.

I agree! But you will almost never see lanolin in a non tallow soap (only exceptions are sone razorock soaps). The combination of lanolin + butters is a match made in heaven in terms of slickness, protection and post shave.

I use whatever works best..no real preference and I don't look at the ingredients to discern before using the soap.

That said, I do believe most of my soaps are tallow.

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I enjoy both, but I much prefer tallow-based ones for the creamier and denser lather.

I have some very good vegans but most of my favorites are Tallow, so I go with Tallow.