Re: Soap Makers challenge - Imperial Leather (IL) shaving so
For those who may mock - and I see there are many :lol: ; I am not a vegetarian. Just minimise my foot print and cause of cruelty where it's easy to do so, and I thought more important to do so with the soap, as I could never eat the amount of tallow (or related meat) that I could use making soap.
As for 'Imperial' - am I not the Soap Queen of - erm - my house? :?
I am now the proud possesser of 6 bars of said Imperial Leather, courtesy of our pound shop (not actually Poundland) and Wilco's. After buying the 4 from the pound shop, I was overcome with paranoia that maybe it wasn't the real thing, so bought 2 more at Wilco. They all smell the same.
It certainly says 'soap'! Doesn't say a lot else to me, though I have got a slight cold which will no doubt last through winter. After reading Antdad's initial description, I was expecting something nicer....but obviously, it's just not greatly to my taste, which is the way with smells. But then, nostalgia is a powerful thing. I don't actually remember any of the soap from my childhood except the carbolic soap that one family my sister and I used to stay over with had. There is something clean and wholesome about that smell, and even the name.
I think the way I would describe Imperial Leather would be sweetly balsalmic; and soapy!
"Metric Polyvinyl" - I like it. :lol: I was sent an article by a friend about another soap maker, and like many she uses very imaginative names for her products.....I am failing miserably on the marketing front.
But have you tried my Sicilian sun ripened lime soap, which will transport you to your own private sun kissed beach on the Sicilian coast - and so on and so forth. :lol: