This is the hard puck, not the cream. I got this soap and shaved with it and had an incredible shave. looks like this soap was reformulated. It now has sodium laurate/potassium laurate in it. all the other ingredients are about the same as the last formulation. This soap smells nothing like sandalwood to me. but it has a very nice cologney type scent to me. The lather this soap produced was incredible. I gotta tell ya, I am impressed with the triple milled hard shave pucks that come out of england. I also bought a dr harris lavender which is also an incredible soap. To my shock, it seems like I have been getting better and more enjoyable shaves with the triple milled hard shave pucks from england versus all of the artisan soaps I have which is surprising to me. I tried the tobs sandalwood cream before and didn't care for it although it is very popular among wet shavers. Give the tobs sandalwood triple milled hard puck a try. it's an awesome and underrated shave soap.
tobs sandalwood shave soap
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I had the cream and taking advantage of a sale I bought the hard puck a couple of years ago. I can confirm it's very easy to produce a thick, rich, slick lather even in the old formulation. I'm not a huge fan of the scent and the post shave is nothing to write home about but overall it's a good soap. Not as good as D. R. Harris soaps still better than Geo F. Trumper and Truefitt & Hill hard pucks.
I have about 20 soaps in kind of a rotation. I use TOBS hard soap infrequently, but when I do it easily produces a nice slick and thick lather, gives a close shave, and has a great aftershave feel. Similar to DR Harris, but I seem to gravitate to TOBS a bit more. It is not on my list of favorites, but every time I use it I wonder why not?
I had the cream a few years ago, didn't smell at all like sandalwood to me, glad to hear maybe its not just me.
Curious what is your favorite soap, performance wise?
Tobs makes great shaving creams, I had the sandalwood and liked it. More refined than the red Proraso shaving cream, this one lasts much longer.
I have never used TOBS hard soaps, but I am using the Rose cream.
Definitely a high quality product, perhaps in my opinion one of the best non-artisanal ever tried.
The fragrance is truly spectacular.
I don't know how long it lasts because I recently put it in rotation, but the comparison with Proraso (which is still a good product) is merciless for me.
I'm pleased another B&B member has discovered the delights of English triple milled soaps and TOBS Sandalwood in particular.
It has for a long time been my first choice for that hypothetical desert island shaving kit
It's a shame TOBS shrunk their hard puck offering but fortunately D R Harris continues to have a broad line up available.
It has for a long time been my first choice for that hypothetical desert island shaving kit
It's a shame TOBS shrunk their hard puck offering but fortunately D R Harris continues to have a broad line up available.
What are your thoughts? Can't them be compared because of the excessive price difference between the two?
Not only that.
The price is given by the purchase cost divided by the number of uses, so at the moment I can't give you a precise answer about it because, as I said, I don't have data for TOBS because it's a product that I've used a few times.
But I don't think it can match Proraso here in Italy: in fact the brand here is very cheap and can be found in practically all large-scale distribution.
At the moment I feel like saying that they are incomparable in terms of quality: when I use Proraso I have the clear sensation of using a very cheap product, completely chemical, with a fragrance that I don't like very much.
Instead with TOBS the sensation is exactly the opposite: it seems like using a high-quality artisanal product.
I agree and I feel like sharing your opinion. Have you tried and are you using only the Tobs Rose cream or have you been able to have other Tobs creams?
I'm using only Rose and have used a tube of Sandalwood in the past.
I've got my eye on the jar of Sandalwood which I'll definitely buy once I've used up some soaps.
I've got my eye on the jar of Sandalwood which I'll definitely buy once I've used up some soaps.
We're seeing that ingredient set pretty much across the board now ...
Tabac first (around 2021), then Mitchell's noticeably so ... quietly, all of Muhle & Edwin Jagger ... then the larger volume/slower moving stocks of hard soaps from the big British names like DRH (and Captain Fawcett), T&H, TOBS and even Floris have finally revealed their reformulation of this type.
It is indeed a superb formulation and most reminiscent to me of stearate-first formulations from c.2000s or older. I have a few Floris from that era and find all these recent reformulations to be a very similar experience indeed.
Wacky scent, mind! Sandalwood? Sandalwood and everything else in the cupboard!
I didn't read it correctly. So if the thread opener is writing about Tobs sandalwood hard shaving soap now I'm confused.
Is there a version of Tobs sandalwood hard soap, maybe an old previous edition no longer produced? I'm not aware of it and I haven't seen it.
I only know Tobs shaving creams.
Is there a version of Tobs sandalwood hard soap, maybe an old previous edition no longer produced? I'm not aware of it and I haven't seen it.
I only know Tobs shaving creams.
Yes @Barberite - TOBS sell two hard soaps. One is Sandalwood herbal, the other is their Traditional.
Sandalwood Shaving Soap was: Potassium Palmate, Sodium Palmate, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Glycerin, Aqua (Water), Parfum (Fragrance), Palm Kernel Fatty Acid, Sodium Chloride, Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Linalool, Coumarin, Geraniol, Limolene, Cinnamal, Citronellol, Benzyl Benzoate, Butylphenol Methylpropional, Citral, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)
... until some point during 2024 when it reformulated to: Potassium Stearate, Sodium Stearate, Aqua (Water), Potassium Laurate, Sodium Laurate, Glycerin, Parfum (Fragrance), Palm Kernel Acid, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Linalool, Coumarin, Geraniol, Eugenol, Limonene, Cinnamal, Citronellol, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)
... which is the version that @jonwilson gave his assessment of in the first post. I absolutely concur that this reformulation is very much for the better.
The Traditional shaving soap somewhat mirrors the old Standard Company Limited formulation of pre-2011 which was used by many of the British cartel at that time (T&H, Trumpers, C&E, Pen's, TOBS and more): Sodium Palmate, Potassium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Stearic Acid, Parfum (Fragrance), Paraffinum Liquidum, Isopropyl, Myristate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Chloride, BHT, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Pentasodium Penetate, CI 77891
Sandalwood Shaving Soap was: Potassium Palmate, Sodium Palmate, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Glycerin, Aqua (Water), Parfum (Fragrance), Palm Kernel Fatty Acid, Sodium Chloride, Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Linalool, Coumarin, Geraniol, Limolene, Cinnamal, Citronellol, Benzyl Benzoate, Butylphenol Methylpropional, Citral, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)
... until some point during 2024 when it reformulated to: Potassium Stearate, Sodium Stearate, Aqua (Water), Potassium Laurate, Sodium Laurate, Glycerin, Parfum (Fragrance), Palm Kernel Acid, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Linalool, Coumarin, Geraniol, Eugenol, Limonene, Cinnamal, Citronellol, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)
... which is the version that @jonwilson gave his assessment of in the first post. I absolutely concur that this reformulation is very much for the better.
The Traditional shaving soap somewhat mirrors the old Standard Company Limited formulation of pre-2011 which was used by many of the British cartel at that time (T&H, Trumpers, C&E, Pen's, TOBS and more): Sodium Palmate, Potassium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Stearic Acid, Parfum (Fragrance), Paraffinum Liquidum, Isopropyl, Myristate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Chloride, BHT, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Pentasodium Penetate, CI 77891
