What soap/cream did you use today?

Shavong soap: ARRAN Sense of Scotland Lochranza Patchouli & Anise Shaving Soap



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Is the bowl actually some kind of stone?   Can you tell us more about the soap?  Tallow?  Vegetable?  How does it perform, etc.


Thanks in advance for your response.

Tedolph 

The Arran soaps are from Scotland. They are vegetable tripple milled hard soaps. The Lochranza and the Machrie, named after places in Scotland. They came in stone resinbowls.

They have beautiful and pleasant fragrances. Not too subtle, but not overpowering either. Just the right amount.

The Lochranza Patchouli and Anise has a warm scent with a woody base of patchouli and vetiver, which is enhanced by the freshness of lemon and grapefruit. Earthy and enigmatic.

The Machrie Seasalt and Rockrose simply smells beautifully clean and crisp. Machrie is a balance of sea salt and clary sage, stirred with the woody earthiness of rockrose.

They are very economical soaps. It takes less than 1 gram or very few turns on the soap to get a full bowl of perfect lather (or on the face, depending on how you lather). The lather is rich, full of cushion, provides excellent glide and ghost lather. The aftercare is brilliant.

Unfortunately, the hard soaps in stone bowls have been discontinued by ARRAN. Both, the bowls and the refill pucks are also no longer available in Europe or very hard to find. I think I saw some at Bullgoose.

There are still the shaving creams with the fragrances available. However, I do not know how they perform.

I love these two fragrances so much that I stocked up about one pund of each before they were no longer available.

Stirling Beeswax Unscented

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