Description
“I’ve always loved traditional European cold-process soaps, which are difficult to produce [much more $ overhead than hot-process soaps].
Cold process soaps’ manner in which the soap’s moisturizing capacities feels within you rather than upon you are special.
They’re like trying to get birds out of the trees, but we’ll always try to source new indie small French cold-process folks whenever possible, and perhaps best of all is that you’re quite unlikely to ever see them pop up on ‘The River of Fakes‘!”
Here we have yet another cold process shaving soap, this one bereft of animal fats and given the distinctly French preference of some white clay in to the formulation. Usually, these are difficult to use soaps which reward in their own way; they’re not Stirling. Cold soaps for shaving are definitely not without their superfans, though, so if you march to your own beat perhaps take a flyer on a sample.
So far, it has sold well, everyone seems to like it, and the company’s really small so they are not advertising any stock. I honestly don’t even know if this is the soap off of a donkey farm’s excesses in a little work-shed, but I suspect so. Make some milk, you damn lazy donkeys! It’ll probably go out-of-stock a long while once we sell the last tin.
Note the presence of “potassium shea butterate”, “sodium shea butterate”, and “butyrospermum parkii butter” on the INCI label; the “butyrospermum parkii butter” is the unsaponified ‘superfat’ shea butter content, added *after* saponification of the alkaloids is completed, while the other two are *saponified* shea butter, which is a much more challenging piece of the puzzle. The higher up the list SSB is, the harder it is the make that soap, and the more costly. This soap’s first ingredient is saponified shea butter!
Coconut Butter, Shea Butter, White Clay, Castor Oil, Peppermint Essential Oil, Lavander Essential Oil.
4% superfat (superfat is the fats not saponified present in the finished soap)
- Weight: 120g
- 4% superfat
- 18 Months’ shelf life after first use
- Essential oils only
- 100% of ingredients minus water and minerals come from organic farming
INCI: Sodium Olivate, Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Shea Butterate, Aqua, Glycerin, Sodium Rapeseedate, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Butyrospremum Parkii Butter, Cymbopogon Martini Oil, Cananga Odorata Flower Oil, Brassica Napus Seed Oil, Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil, Cedrus Atlantica Bark Oil, Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Salicylate, Citral, Citronellol, Farnesol, Geraniol, Isoeugenol, Limonene, Linalool
