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A few words on shave soap: Know your product and soapmaker!It takes more than the addition of bentonite clay to make a soap bar into a shaving soap bar. Often we hear of independent soap makers adding bentonite clay to their recipe to *voila* make it into a shave bar because it adds some “slick” to the shave. If only it were that easy! A true shave soap will be carefully formulated with shaving as its true nature, not bathing. This is created with a mixture of KOH and NaOH bases and careful use of oils. We love Olive Oil...