Description
“Discover the Oléo-sine shaving potato, made cold by a craftsman from Languedoc-Roussillon. Concentrated in shea butter oil and goat’s milk, this shaving potato guarantees you an extremely smooth shave. Its abundant foam facilitates the gliding of the razor while gently cleansing, without drying out the skin. Enjoy a pleasant feeling of cleanliness and well-being with every use. This product is ideal for a comfortable and skin-friendly shave.”
Well, safe to say there’ll only be one “shaving potato”, as well as one shaving soap that contains sodium sheabutterate as its primary fat together with caprae lac. This shaving potato also has the oil from the boabab tree, as well as saponified castor, olive, and sunflower oils.
Having used my ‘potato’ four times now as I write this, I can decree a high compliment; the lather itself is quite reminiscent of Zartgefuehl “Men’s Secret”, which is good enough praise for some. It is creamy, in that same buttery way as the Zart, because of the ‘SSB’.
The strongest similarity to the fabled Zart soap, however, is in the post-shave feel, where you have that super soft skin *without* the heavier feeling of alternative shaving soaps which – while they function much better in terms of how much lather they make, how easily they make lather, and how stable is that lather – must combine more alkaline bases with post-saponified ‘superfatting’ to achieve a net pH score more acceptable than if there was not extra fat % in the mix. Hot process soaps don’t get down to the low pH scores of cold process soaps even with their superfatting, and cold process soaps could do it without a single drop of post-saponified ‘superfat’, though generally they have a smidge of it.
It is quite a challenge to get a fully-saponified marriage of salt and fat to be a pH closer to 7, or even 8.5 for that matter, because in soap making by nature of the process it is normal for a portion of the fat not to mate with the salt. The very best cold process soapmakers can keep all of that fat in the mixture, without having to scrape it off the solution.
The “shaving potato’ is not quite Zartgefuehl’s equal in how wetness feels within your skin rather than upon your skin during shaving, but post-shave feel is spectacular, full stop, and the slippery feeling during the shave is, in this opinion, better than the Zartgefuehl thanks to the goat’s milk addition (which Mrs. Zart now eschews because she wants wholly vegan formulations for all her products).
The way the fats feeling of the soap easily rinses away from you leaving soft skin without any heavy sensation is every bit the equal of any other cold saponified soap we can offer you, so if you’d like the oddest travel shaving stick in the marketplace, you’ve found it!
Made in France. Against animal testing.
