So when Milky May is up will you be shaving with it? Looking forward to hearing about your thoughts post shave.
I'm rolling into Tech June-kies on Monday (the month changes mid-week and I'm OCD) and have kinda mapped the month out to enjoy some of my vintage soaps but I do like to switch at the weekends for which I had in mind to run the Tabac tallow/veg back to back a few times to settle my mind on that but then this happened ...
Yes, I think a few shaves back to back with the tallow then the new one with a little break between to let things settle in my mind. It is "vintage" now, afterall.
I have to say, I am more than a little miffed about this. I do like to look on the positive side. It's a change. I'm not coming from the "no tallow, no good" camp, in fact neither my now favourite in-production soap SdM and my now second favourite in-production soap MdC are tallow based ... but the new MWF is, well, just not as good. I think. So far as I can tell from one test lather. Quite the reverse for Tabac, as I think the new one is better but then the tallow Tabac was not really a massive thing for me. MWF was.
I'll happily enjoy my classic MWF as vintage going forwards and will most likely happily use Mitchell's Wooly Veg Fat (MWVF) as just another good British hard soap.
I'll say it again ... I am kinda miffed about this. Ho-hum! Life goes forward.
@pjgh I think your observation about who makes the Fat shaving soap is a good one. Their shaving soap seems to come from the same factory as Trumpers, whilst their bath soaps from another.
Btw. I sent Kent Brushes an email and they said is the tallowate based soap, I presume for a few more batches. From my observations Kent are a few batches behind MWF, their batches seem to sell slower than MWF.
Yeah, I just have an inkling that ...
Well, I mean ... MWF is NOT made in that little terrace house just off Wibsey roundabout. It's made in a factory. It has to be because it a HUGE seller, and I mean huge. I did wonder if it was made (under license, or by contract) in a number of factories and mused that this might be the reason for the patchy performance.
There's a massive factory over in Bierley, Bradford that makes all sorts of toiletries for all sorts of names including Molton Brown. Good guess Mitchell's is made there too, but thought that might be the liquid soaps and shampoos and what-not.
I have to agree! The ingredient listing rather reads like it's made by the same folks that make for the big British names. Mitchell's is still Bradford, England ... but I wonder if the shaving soap is now Glasgow, Scotland? Bath soaps? Could be anywhere.