Moon Soaps Old School Shaving Soap

Old School is the soap Moon built its range around: a tallow-heavy recipe in the traditional style, scented with tobacco, leather and vanilla. The formula is soft, so it loads onto a brush quickly. A good pick if you like a dark, classic barbershop scent and a tallow lather.

Fragrance

A dark, classic tobacco scent that Moon built as the cornerstone of its range: tobacco over a base of leather and woods, softened by vanilla.

• Notes: tobacco, vetiver, leather, mahogany, vanilla

Performance

Moon describe the recipe as a "huge amount of tallow", rendered in-house from locally sourced fat, with shea butter, mango butter, almond oil and glycerin for moisture. The soap is soft, close to a cream in the tub, and loads quickly; Moon promise a thick, slick lather that protects on every pass.

Complete the Protocol

• Moon Soaps Old School Aftershave Splash: the same scent as an aftershave splash
• Simpsons Trafalgar T2 Synthetic Fibre Shaving Brush: a synthetic brush that loads a soft soap quickly
• Moon Soaps Havana Shaving Soap: another Moon tobacco scent, brighter with bergamot

Technical Specifications

• Size: 170g (6oz)
• Format: Soft shaving soap in a tub
• Base: Tallow, with shea butter, mango butter and almond oil
• Scent family: Tobacco and leather
• Country of manufacture: United States

Ingredients

Water, Beef Tallow, Stearic Acid, Castor Oil, Mango Butter, Glycerin, Shea Butter, Potassium Hydroxide, Almond Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Fragrance Oil.

About the Brand: Moon Soaps

Moon Soaps began in 2008 with Melody Kent's cold-process soap making in California and became a family business; its first shaving soap, Old School, followed in 2017. Everything is made from scratch in the family's own workshop, and its shaving soaps combine house-rendered beef tallow with shea butter, castor oil and kokum butter.