Lanolin Based Soaps & Creams

**biminyrd** · 04-15-2009, 04:11 PM

There is already an amazing sticky on Tallow based soaps.
I'm interested to know which soaps have lanolin in them, as I find the lanolin based soap which I own (Musgo Real) performs as well as my tallow based soaps (Tabac and Speick).
This list can also help people who have a lanolin allegy.

*Updated*
So far the list of soaps/creams that contain lanolin are:
Musgo
Mitchel's Wool Fat (MWF)/Kent
Godrej Shaving Creams
Omega red cream
proraso red
Palmolive Refreshing Lemon
St. Charles Shave (SCS) Lanolin Shave Soap

following are from searching the forum and unconfirmed:
Ingram shave cream
lavanda
Institut du Karite (disputed effectiveness of lanolin based ingredient)

please post your additions/corrections.

aaron

**sachin** · 04-15-2009, 04:13 PM

Godrej Shaving Creams

**The Nid Hog** · 04-15-2009, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by sachin

Godrej Shaving Creams

Is that true of the Menthol Mint and the Citrus too?

**sachin** · 04-15-2009, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by The Nid Hog

Is that true of the Menthol Mint and the Citrus too?

I have the Original and the Menthol Mist and both have lanolin on the ingredient list.

**tracr** · 04-15-2009, 10:50 PM

Institut du Karite

**Luc** · 04-16-2009, 03:37 AM

Omega red cream has lanolin

**MikeLip** · 04-16-2009, 03:49 AM

Originally Posted by tracr

Institut du Karite

+1. Awesome soap.

**sachin** · 04-16-2009, 05:28 AM

Originally Posted by tracr

institut du karite

Originally Posted by mikelip

+1. Awesome soap.

+2

**The Seeker** · 04-16-2009, 08:07 AM

Palmolive Refreshing Lemon.

**SmoovD** · 04-16-2009, 08:14 AM

SCS Lanolin SS

**Stubblefield** · 04-16-2009, 08:26 AM

While MWF does contain lanolin, it is still primarily tallow based. Tallow is #1 on the list of ingredients, lanolin at #11 or so. My favorite soap, for sure.

I'm going to have to try some IK now!

**Cuttingboard** · 04-16-2009, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by tracr

Institut du Karite

I thought IK used shea butter?

**MikeLip** · 04-16-2009, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by Cuttingboard

I thought IK used shea butter?

I am working from memory when I say this, but as I recall lanolin is on the list of ingredients.

**MikeLip** · 04-16-2009, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by Stubblefield

While MWF does contain lanolin, it is still primarily tallow based. Tallow is #1 on the list of ingredients, lanolin at #11 or so. My favorite soap, for sure.

I'm going to have to try some IK now!

Yes. Yes you do.

I like it better than MWF. The smell is better anyway. They are both very good soaps.

**tracr** · 04-16-2009, 09:56 AM

IK contains shea butter but lanolin too i believe.

here's the list:
Potassium Palmate, Sodium Palmate, Potassium Stearate, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Glycerin, Aqua (Water), Isopropyl Lanolate, Palm Kernel Acid, Butrospermum (Shea Butter) Parkii, Parfum (Fragrance), Titanium Dioxide, Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Cetaryl, Alcohol, Ceteareth-33, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, Polysorbate 60, Petrolatum, Dimethicone Copolyol, Citronellol, Amylcinnamyl Alcohol, Geraniol

unless i am mistaken, isopropyl lanolate is just a lower alkyl ester of lanolin fatty acid.

**Ferannia** · 04-16-2009, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by tracr

unless i am mistaken, isopropyl lanolate is just a lower alkyl ester of lanolin fatty acid.

That's a synthetic moisturizer only, widely used in cosmetics, it has no hypoallergenic, soothing and bacteriostatic properties.

**tracr** · 04-16-2009, 04:03 PM

well, ok, it may be less efficacious, being ingredient #8, and the poster appears to be looking for creams/soaps with lanolin as a primary ingredient, but is it or is it not a lanolin or lanolin-derived substance? this is important for those of us who are allergic~

**Ferannia** · 04-16-2009, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by tracr

well, ok, it may be less efficacious, being ingredient #8, and the poster appears to be looking for creams/soaps with lanolin as a primary ingredient, but is it or is it not a lanolin or lanolin-derived substance? this is important for those of us who are allergic~

It is lanolin derived, but it does not act and have all properties as the full lanolin itself of course.

By quick Googling for allergies and isopropyl-lanolate I found some info http://www.realself.com/ingredient/isopropyl-lanolate

**maxfarce** · 04-16-2009, 05:02 PM

For someone who is trying to glean from your thread some info on good soaps and creams one might not have tried (or might have already) the shorthand of abbreviations and initials doesn't always help. I can play detective with some of it. Also, it is disappointing when a number of posters rave over an ultimate brand, but Google is no help in finding anything like it. In this case the Institut du karite given high marks by a number of you. I finally figured out MWF, which I already have, and I'm working on chasing down some of the others. I have mainly used cremes for the three years since I took up shaving with a straight, but I've decided to explore soaps now, and any info I can glean is helpful.

Thanks,
Don J.

**Dubbya** · 04-16-2009, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Stubblefield

While MWF does contain lanolin, it is still primarily tallow based. Tallow is #1 on the list of ingredients, lanolin at #11 or so. My favorite soap, for sure.

I'm going to have to try some IK now!

If I understand it correctly, lanolin is an additive for skin conditioning and not a soap base. Soap bases, IIRC, are tallow and glycerine.