Well.....I started with a Welsh one!
What makes a artisan soap an artisan soap?
Does it have something to do with the amount of soaps they are able to make each year or something else?
Please forgive my ignorance!
B+M DG. A+E, are these thought of as artisan?
Paul.
Already rich Americans commissioning private label from commercial soap makers is not artisinal.
... or are you trying to figure out if you can shave with your Savonniere du Moulin? I know I will this month.
I guess when we saw a huge proliferation of names, all with an ingredient list so close to each other and all with the same themed scents ... I guess someone with more of a sneer than a believer would think that they're more just marketeers buying from the same actual end producer. Often these houses would be dropping out all manner of razors or brushes, copying (sorry, "being influenced by") expired patents then I think it's a stretch that they might be soap, brush and razor journeymen.
Certainly not all ... but in the boom, probably many.
I will be using my La Savonnire du moulin at some point this month, I am still unsure about the larger soap makers such as Barrister and Mann being artisanal but I guess it's a difficult question to answer, OSP was definitely artisanal and so is Signature Soaps but the lines get blurred with some of the other so called artisanal soap makers when they seem to be producing large batches for world wide sale, it's not as easy anymore to know if a soap is made in huge vats or just made in small batches, Hampshire lanolin Shaving soap is another artisan that spring's to mind.Already rich Americans commissioning private label from commercial soap makers is not artisinal. Making it in your own bath is. Meticulously seeking perfection with an own recipe which is then produced more readily by a commercial soap maker is because it came from artisinal beginnings.
... or are you trying to figure out if you can shave with your Savonniere du Moulin? I know I will this month.
I will be using my La Savonnire du moulin at some point this month, I am still unsure about the larger soap makers such as Barrister and Mann being artisanal but I guess it's a difficult question to answer, OSP was definitely artisanal and so is Signature Soaps but the lines get blurred with some of the other so called artisanal soap makers when they seem to be producing large batches for world wide sale, it's not as easy anymore to know if a soap is made in huge vats or just made in small batches, Hampshire lanolin Shaving soap is another artisan that spring's to mind.
Paul.
I think that applies to here as well. Sometimes shaving creams that are made by Creightons seem to get advertised as the latest greatest new thing, but they all seem to use pretty much the same base.
For me it’s about this part of the Artisan definition …”made in a traditional or non-mechanized way using high-quality ingredients”
When the “bigger names” scale up this is when the line gets blurred. I’m still happy using my pans, blenders, mixers and slow cook pots
I am going to make it a little more interesting for myself. Unsurprisingly I have built up an overly large collection as I NEVER git rid of anything. So far I have used an English and a Welsh soap. I have more English and some Irish and Scottish soaps with one French Soap I would class as artisan. I will try to represent each country in turn for the remainder of the month
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