Continuing my run through various soaps that made the Sharpologist list, today I am using Declaration Grooming’s Darkfall, one of their Icarus formula soaps:
Stearic Acid, Water, Castor Oil, Avocado Oil, Vegetable Glycerin, Mango Seed Butter, Potassium Hydroxide, Sodium Hydroxide, Fragrance, Bison Tallow, Lamb Tallow, Colloidal Oatmeal, Goat’s Milk, Lanolin, Bentonite Clay, Tocopheryl Acetate, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Extract, Salix Alba L. (White Willow) Bark Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tussah Silk
The tetrasodium EDTA will help this soap when hard water is used. The fragrance is described:
Darkfall is a spicy oriental designed to capture the spirit of fall in the rural south. Agarwood, amber, and benzoin provide a deep, warm base for the cinnamon and clove top notes. Birch tar adds a slight smokiness that represents the ever-present smell of burning leaves that heralds the arrival of fall in Georgia.
Using my Simpson Wee Scot, I got a good lather, and the iKon Shavecraft 101 did a wonderful. A splash of Klar Seifen to finish the shave, and I’m ready for the day (first day of legal cannabis here in Canada—probably should have chosen Dead Sea as the shaving soap, since its fragrance includes cannabis).