In attesa di aver tempo per una scheda completa, posto qualche foto e le mie impressioni su questi saponi artigianali Americani che ho trovato ottimi già dal primo utilizzo.
Il sito del produttore è questo:
http://www.wetshaveobsession.com/
Io ho preso 3 profumazioni: Coconut Lime, Signature e Pincintrus:
Il sapone si presenta come un sapone duro non malleabile:
L'ho riconfezionato in una ciotola di legno che avevo in casa:
Gli strumenti per la prova di montaggio:
Si inizia, qui potete vedere il caricamento del pennello precedentemente messo a bagno e poi completamente strizzato (io inizio sempre con il pennello strizzato a mano).
Notate anche la protoschiuma che colava dalla ciotola di legno, e che ho poi inserito nella ciotola di montaggio.
Qui potete vedere la fine della prima fase di montaggio (quella che io chiamo "a secco"). Montando con poca acqua, la crema è molto secca ma molto ricca. Notate la ricchezza di questa crema:
Ed infine, dopo aver aggiunto a goccia a goccia la quantità di acqua giusta (per i miei gusti), questo è il risultato finale: una crema di sapone molto ricca, profumata, idratante e lubrificante.
Vorrei anche fare una nota di merito sul produttore : i saponi sono realizzati interamente con ingredienti naturali e biologici.
Faccio un copia e incolla dal loro sito:
"After much experimentation and work the reviews came in on soap samples that were sent out and they were all we had hoped for.
The indication-it was FINALLY time to go live with WetShaveObsesssion Premium Shave Soap, "Tallow Taken to the NextLevel"....
So what makes our soaps different? First the ingredients: The oils used are all organic and the tallow used to manufacture the glycerin is from organic grass fed beef.
Tallow contains trace minerals and salts and toxins, many of which effect lather and skin moisturization.
Minerals equate to hard water and salts and various toxins are known to dry the skin.
Converting the "Organic Tallow" to Distilled Tallow Based Glycerin essentially purifies it, removing the negative content, leaving only the positive desirable fatty acids/triglycerides in their purest form.
The colorings are all natural. We use the highest quality Organic Essential Oils and highest quality fragranceoils available. Every oil used, including the Distilled Tallow Based Glycerin, is filtered through a .22um filter.
This is the same process used to sterilize oils for injection. Even the water used is Triple Filtered purified water.
No expense was spared to use the finest possible ingredients and to then additionally process them to their cleanest, purest form.
Each one was selected based on quality, not price or ease of availability.
Second is the formula: One of the reasons a shaving soap performs so well is the fatty acid or triglyceride content and make up.
The combination of distilled Tallow based glycerin and the specific oils, in the specific amounts used in our shaving soaps, provide the highest content and broadest spectrum of fatty acids currently available in ashaving soap.
Fats can be seen as the foundation blocks of the soap, the remainder of the ingredients as the mortar that holds them together.
After perfecting the foundation blocks we experimented with the mortar.
Different ingredients in various ratios were tried for months before developing an acceptable formula. That, however, wasn't enough.
We didn't want acceptable, we wanted exceptional. So we continued analyzing and tweaking and have developed what we feel is the finest formula of shaving soap available.
Third is our Process: The soaps are triple batched (hand milled) to remove all excess water, providing the user with a very high % of pure soap, not water.
Briefly the first batching or hand milling is the manufacture of a Distilled Tallow Based Glycerin Soap or Base.
The second batching or hand milling consists of the melting of the base and the addition of various top quality performance enhancing ingredients and base scents.
Very quickly, all soaps, regardless of final scent, require a base scent.
This was explained to me by a perfumer while I was consulting with him regarding the selection and perfection of our scent line.
Bases can be floral in scent, oriental, chypre, etc. The proper base scent is dependent upon the final desired scent.
With our family of soaps we found that 3 separate base scents covered our requirements for proper fragrancing of our final scent line.
The third and final batching or hand milling consists of melting the previous base scented batch and adding the final fragrance and essential oils as well as the natural colorant for the individual soap being made.
The final product is then poured into molds and allowed to cure.
The puck size is very large, approximately 5.4oz! With each batching or hand milling process comes the loss or removal of water (batching or hand milling is essentially the initial saponification and subsequent meltings).
What this does for the soap and its quality is to essentially purify the product.
Instead of the consumer paying for and using water, they are using as pure a soap product as is possible.
To give you an idea from the initial hand milling or batching through the final hand milling (batching) approximately 1/3 of the total product is lost.
That means in a non-triple hand milled or non-triple batched soap (whichever terminology you prefer) you may be paying for up to or possibly over 1/3 water!
I know that's a lot of information, but the bottom line is that I have a love and passion for wet shaving and a background in chemistry.
My goal was to make the finest quality soap product I possibly could, unlike any other available.
I wished to do so in small, strictly controlled batches, with the desire to share the final product with other avid wet shavers!"
INCI:
Ingredients: Organic Filtered Cocos Nucifera Oil, Organic Filtered Dende Oil, Organic Filtered Safflower Oil, Organic Filtered Tallow Based Distilled Glycerin, Triple Filtered Purified Water, Sodium and Potassium Hydroxide, Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate, Sorbitol, Organic Non GMO Soya Lecithin, Organic Filtered Shea Butter, Vegetable Protein Isolates, Bentonite or Kaolin Clay, Organic Essential Oils, Fragrance Oil, Natural coloring.
Ciao,
Daniele.
