Ivory Soap

[August West]

It can be whipped up into decent lather. Anyone else try it?

 

[GearNoir]

It’s certainly got some slickness to it I’d imagine!

 

[ksblazer]

I've never tried lathering it up and shaving with it. But I've heard that people have used it, or know people that have.

I have a couple bars of it with some other bath soaps. I figure if things get really bad and I use up my 10yrs worth of soaps and creams. I can shave with Ivory soap. But in reality, I have more shave soap than bath soaps. So it will probably get used for bathing before shaving.

 

[Spider]

Yes, I’ve used it, and yes it’s perfectly serviceable as a shave soap. There are old ads talking about using it for shaving. And I have a razor that says to use ivory soap. So yeah, this is well documented in history as a shave soap.

 

[ksblazer]

So @Spider.

On a scale of 1 to 10. What would you rate the quality of shaves you got from it?

 

[Spider]

So @Spider.

On a scale of 1 to 10. What would you rate the quality of shaves you got from it?

If that’s your metric, then an 8 or a 9. Quality of shave rarely has anything to do with the soap. As long as the soap offers some slickness it’s going to perform well.

 

[Fenster]

Yep I used bar soap regularly for a number of years to shave with prior to finding My way to traditional wet shaving. Sometimes it was Ivory sometimes it was whatever bar soap was sitting on the bathroom sink. Back then the shaves were good but not great, but I was still using a cart razor. For me the bar soap was better than any of the canned goop. Fast forward to now, with a good DE and blades, and I can get a fine shave with bar soap. The last one I tried was CBL Soaps bar soap and it worked very well.

 

[August West]

I say it is better than a kick in the ass with a frozen boot.

 

[MarkB]

It can be whipped up into decent lather. Anyone else try it?

Yep. My maternal grandfather used it. Old Gillette TTO, old boar brush and a coffee cup containing a few slivers of the soap.