An exceptionally nice shave today, beginning with the superb lather (consistency, slickness, and fragrance) the Rooney produced from Van Yulay’s Puros la Habana shaving soap, whose ingredients are:
Stearic Acid, Aloe Vera, Coconut Fatty Acid, Castor, Glycerin, Potassium Hydroxide, Babassu-Manteca-Argan-Abyssinian-Coconut Oils, Kokum & Cocoa Butters, Calendula, Extracts, Poly Quats, Sodium Lactate, Allantoin, Silica, Liquid Silk, Bentonite Clay, Tobacco Absolute, and Fragrance.
This soap, like yesterday’s Hercules from Van Yulay, includes manteca (lard), though in this case the green disk contains that information. For whatever reason, the lather from Puros la Habana was for me noticeably better, and indeed better by a fair amount, than the lather from Hercules, which has these ingredients:
Deionized Water, Glycerin, Sorbitol, Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Stearate, Saponified oils of Soy Bean-Safflower-Stearic Acid, Goatmilk,Coconut-Palm-Manteca-Olive-Emu–Grapeseed-Almond-Castor-Oils,Honey, Sea Salt, Kokum-Mango-Coco-Shea-Butters, Amino Acids,Chamomile, Calendula, Polyquats, Liquid Silk, Marshmallow Root, Allantoin, White Kaolin Clay, Silica Powder, Vitamin E, and Fragrance.
The fragrance from Puros la Habana is indeed cured tobacco leaf with a hint of cedar. In loading the brush, I did have to add a little water a couple of times as I loaded, and the resulting lather was wonderful.
The Rockwell did its usual very comfortable and very efficient job. R4 has for me a little more blade feel, but it still feels comfortable and it is certainly efficient. I may return to R3 just for comparison.
A small dot of the Van Yulay Puros la Habana aftershave balm is all that is needed. The balm ingredients:
Water, Aloe Vera, Glycerin, Emulsifying Wax, BTMS, Stearic Acid, Emu Oil, Glycerin, Abyssinian Seed Oil, Argan Oil, Allantoin, Par d Arco, Ylang-Ylang, Tea Tree, Hydrolyzed Oat, Holy Basil, Liquid Silk, Germaben II, and Fragrance.
Again, not vegan, but very nice.
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