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making your own shaving soap

post #1 of 11
5/15/10 at 10:28am
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I was curious about getting shaving soap made with a certain scent, and I asked a few small places if they could make me a batch, and was quoted insane prices.

so I thought about looking into making my own, and found that it seems pretty straightforward. I think that this will be a little summer project of mine. it should be about 1/5 the price that I pay now, and I should be able to get it the scent that I wanted.


anybody else ever do this?
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post #2 of 11
5/16/10 at 12:29am
I'd go on etsy.com and message some of the shaving soap places first. A lot of the people on there find that fun and make shaving soap a lot anyways.
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post #3 of 11
5/16/10 at 12:49am
There was a thread about this a long time back on straightrazorplace.com I bookmarked it, it's still there.

Alternatively, what scents are you looking for? I'd be surprised if it's not already somewhere out there.
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post #4 of 11
5/16/10 at 10:40am
There is a huge difference between scratch made soap from animal fat and lye, cooked at home and cured, and the easy-make glycerine soap you can whip up in the kitchen. The real stuff is far superior, and real soap makers can do anything you can imagine. I had a good friend who was the real deal and her soaps were fantastic. Unless you want to start home production, just get in touch with a soap maker and tell them what you want. You'll have pounds of the best soap you ever used.
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post #5 of 11
5/16/10 at 10:44am
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Originally Posted by Thomas View Post
There was a thread about this a long time back on straightrazorplace.com I bookmarked it, it's still there.

Alternatively, what scents are you looking for? I'd be surprised if it's not already somewhere out there.

can you give me the link?


what I am looking for is aggarwood, I haven't found anything commercially available.

I have asked a few people if they could make it for me, and they wanted something like 50 or more cakes minimum
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post #6 of 11
5/16/10 at 11:37pm
Well do you bake professionally? If so that would be a day's work tops.
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post #7 of 11
5/17/10 at 11:18am
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can you give me the link?


what I am looking for is aggarwood, I haven't found anything commercially available.

I have asked a few people if they could make it for me, and they wanted something like 50 or more cakes minimum

http://www.straightrazorplace.com/fo...ng-soap-3.html

Scroll down in page three and you'll find the details. I'd been thinking about doing this for the past three years, which is pretty sad once you think about it.

As for agarwood...that may prove tricky.

Good luck if you decide to go forward with it. BTW: You'll probably find a few takers for the excess soap you wind up with.
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post #8 of 11
5/17/10 at 1:48pm
Making your own cold pour shaving soap should be incredibly easy.
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post #9 of 11
5/17/10 at 2:06pm
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Making your own cold pour shaving soap should be incredibly easy.

Well, for a glycerine soap, probably. The instructions I found were oil/lye soaps, which really appealed to my sense of the impossible.

BTW: the agarwood oil may be hard to come by, or expensive (particularly the real stuff), or it could prove irritating to your skin in reasonable amounts. I know clove oil - to pick one at random - gets a lot of people.
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post #10 of 11
5/17/10 at 4:04pm
I know some people who make soap from scratch. It's not difficult, but it can be tricky. It's kinda like cooking, but there are a lot more ways to screw up and render the batch unusable. Some soap makers will offer classes, which is probably the best way to learn. I wouldn't try to just follow a recipe online and expect it turn out.
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post #11 of 11
5/17/10 at 7:58pm
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Well, for a glycerine soap, probably. The instructions I found were oil/lye soaps, which really appealed to my sense of the impossible.

BTW: the agarwood oil may be hard to come by, or expensive (particularly the real stuff), or it could prove irritating to your skin in reasonable amounts. I know clove oil - to pick one at random - gets a lot of people.

the agarwood oil is the easy part for me - I've actually offered to send the oil to soap makers if they would make me a batch.

I think that I will try this summer to make a batch of goatsmilk and coconut oil based shaving soap, and see how that goes. I don't have time for a month or so, but then I will. I'll keep you informed.
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