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Detail is fun, but I think we need a crib-sheet:
Key
Green is good, dark green "gooder".
Red is bad.
Blue are variations of the 2024 formulations that are unfolding, but all good. Consider blue as an age of enlightenment, if you will.
White text is for tallow soaps.
Vintage tallow is all over the place, but I think we can agree that "they're the great ones" and so I've just listed "T" as the ingredients and moved on. The rest of the codes are self-explanatory once you look at the ingredient lists in full and give us a shortcut to the summary - yes, I've ignored the placement of Aqua/Water (since they're triple-milled and so water is pretty much expelled post-saponation/saponification?) and of Glycerin since it's both an ingredient and a by-product (from what little I actually know about soap making).
I've tried to put useful notes in and embolden really useful items. I've also speculatively put 2024 boxes for the crap soaps still out there in the hope that they'll ... errr, reform? reformulate! and the pending release of the Floris shea-enriched base, which I think we'll see from T&H Apsley reformulation first (like we've yet to see DRH's but get a very good idea from the current Captain Fawcett - yes, CF is the Cap, not Castle Forbes).
There are a couple of observations for folks unwilling to risk buying vintage but just want a taste ...
If you were to own the vegetal Tabac from 2021 (or the very latest TOBS 2024 base), that formulation is potentially a revival of the legacy Floris/TOBS Stearate base which was around before the turbulent decade of the 2010s. Likewise, if you're quick and bag a current tablet of TOBS Traditional then you'll have a soap that's very much akin to Standard Company base pre-2011.
Key
Green is good, dark green "gooder".
Red is bad.
Blue are variations of the 2024 formulations that are unfolding, but all good. Consider blue as an age of enlightenment, if you will.
White text is for tallow soaps.
Vintage tallow is all over the place, but I think we can agree that "they're the great ones" and so I've just listed "T" as the ingredients and moved on. The rest of the codes are self-explanatory once you look at the ingredient lists in full and give us a shortcut to the summary - yes, I've ignored the placement of Aqua/Water (since they're triple-milled and so water is pretty much expelled post-saponation/saponification?) and of Glycerin since it's both an ingredient and a by-product (from what little I actually know about soap making).
I've tried to put useful notes in and embolden really useful items. I've also speculatively put 2024 boxes for the crap soaps still out there in the hope that they'll ... errr, reform? reformulate! and the pending release of the Floris shea-enriched base, which I think we'll see from T&H Apsley reformulation first (like we've yet to see DRH's but get a very good idea from the current Captain Fawcett - yes, CF is the Cap, not Castle Forbes).
There are a couple of observations for folks unwilling to risk buying vintage but just want a taste ...
If you were to own the vegetal Tabac from 2021 (or the very latest TOBS 2024 base), that formulation is potentially a revival of the legacy Floris/TOBS Stearate base which was around before the turbulent decade of the 2010s. Likewise, if you're quick and bag a current tablet of TOBS Traditional then you'll have a soap that's very much akin to Standard Company base pre-2011.
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