Cold-saponified and enduringly French, Hitton shaving soap is cured in-tub so that the soap's stable while loading (no lather escaping off the edges) and uses a 30% donkey milk base from Pyrenees donkeys raised by the makers themselves. 100%-palm-and-tallow-free. Only pure essential oils are used for fragrance, and lavender used was grown on their own farm. Organic donkey milk is accompanied with a few other precious oils (olive, coconut, castor), the traditionally-France presence of shea butter and white clay, and perfumed with essential oils. Among palm-and-tallow-free shaving soaps which exclusively employ fragrance oils for their scent, this soap stands out for the strength of its fragrance, which is never cloying or artificial in any way. Lather is creamy, wet, and quite unstable and difficult, a "high maintenance"/"high reward" soap relationship-one must use as little water in the brush as possible, the latitude of going from too dry max density to too airy an exacting affair (as many of the French soaps from the region), and only add water very sparingly as the foam thickens. Hitton can certainly present a wet, slippery cushion for approximately 40 seconds to one minute at a time, which is enough to get a good pass with the blade, but it is wholly incapable of shortening-thick-and-stable lather as a stearic/tallow based soap. However, the slip and moisture facets of this soap will regularly exceed the best of the stearic/tallow set - you just have to accept the tinkering constantly to get this goal.
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