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Godrej.
Edit: I think shaving creams in tubes are more popular in India than shaving soaps.
Which soaps got better once tallow was removed?
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Edit: I think shaving creams in tubes are more popular in India than shaving soaps.
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I'm still irked that you posted this. I have been unable to type 'shave' soap or 'shave' brush since. It doesn't look correct to me anymore.Please forgive an off topic question (I do not wanna open a new thread).
Are 'shave soap' or 'shaving soap' both grammatically correct?
This has been bugging me for some time.
Please help me regain my peace of mind.
Well, we take a bath with bath soap. Why can't we shave with shave soap?
People will look at you funny if you start talking about "bathing soap."
Trigodon and Hajamat are the most popular soaps there I believe
Thanks. Just looked them up. Both are made from coconut oil, shea butter and glycerine. So plenty of tallow left for the rest of the world.
Vi-John is the most popular..that is the largest selling shaving cream in India and probably the biggest seller world wide. Godrej is well known in India but not even close in sales.
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I was talking about this:
Now recently discontinued...
What's this wildly popular Vi-John shaving soap then? I just get cans and tubes when I search Google.
That is a well known brand and is pretty good. What I meant was Vi-John is the largest seller of shaving soaps and creams, probably in the world. I was speaking specifically of their creams (which is soap with a bit more water). I do have a thread somewhere that shows the Indian Government comparing these two, plus others, against their legal requirements. Interesting stuff. The Indian government mandates the percentage of fats in shaving soaps and creams instead of letting anything be called such.
Quality matters: Best shaving cream in the market - The Sunday Guardian Live
The quality parameters for shaving creams include froth volume generated, skin-friendliness and beard-softening quotient, and the “experience” of the
sundayguardianlive.com
This is an interesting article on Indian shaving creams.
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First world bias in action.
It's the other way around, traditional wet shavers outnumber cartridge/disposable and canned foam/gel users by quite a bit, especially when you start looking at places where the majority of the population doesn't have disposable income.
Just because they don't have internet or speak English doesn't mean they don't exist. Most of the Russian blades that so many of us enjoy weren't deliberately made for export to rich Americans. They were made because the local population buys them. Ditto for Indian blades.
Most of us view a carton of 100 blades as a non-expense. It's throw away money, less than the price of a fast food meal. In India, some vendors sell individual blades because that's all the local population can afford. When you make less than $1 a day, a five cent blade represents a significant investment.
Lately I've been seeing ads on TV for canned Barbasol, just like I remember as a kid. I'm going to buy a can just because, and I don't give a Tinker's damn what's in it.
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This is why we can't have nice soaps.
I’m surprised that the EU hasn’t tried banning the atmosphere yet for being a “harmful” chemical. Kind of reminds me of the saying that there are no “toxic” chemicals just toxic doses
Since they removed uranium form shaving soap, I don't shave any more. There was tingling sensation, and I realy liked tingling soaps...also they used to glow in dark
That makes perfect sense, given the choice to use so many soaps in rotation and the wish to minimize load time.
The fact that soaps can dry out quickly if not used regularly has driven me to a different solution. I choose to stick with one soap start to finish. That way I don't have to avoid triple-milled soaps, the soap stays hydrated, and I have time to get to know each soap better. But then I'm a 3017 kind of guy. To each his own.
Here in the United States, I'm considered lower-middle class. But if I compare myself to the 7 billion people on the planet, I suddenly become a "one-percenter".First world bias in action.
It's the other way around, traditional wet shavers outnumber cartridge/disposable and canned foam/gel users by quite a bit, especially when you start looking at places where the majority of the population doesn't have disposable income.
Just because they don't have internet or speak English doesn't mean they don't exist. Most of the Russian blades that so many of us enjoy weren't deliberately made for export to rich Americans. They were made because the local population buys them. Ditto for Indian blades.
Most of us view a carton of 100 blades as a non-expense. It's throw away money, less than the price of a fast food meal. In India, some vendors sell individual blades because that's all the local population can afford. When you make less than $1 a day, a five cent blade represents a significant investment.
It seems import and and maybe even domestic production of tallow and tallow based soaps are banned in India. I've read that from members on the Wetshavers India subreddit, and some news articles. Not a lot of English language resources.
In my opinion? Not one. I'd say Haslinger was one of the few to match performance.... but surpass? Nah
