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Mnem667@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoHow’s the vegan? Honestly, I don’t know which I have. It’s my second cake of it, but this one has been around for a while, so it could go either way. It doesn’t seem any different than my first Tabac, so I’m inclined to say it’s still tallow. Potentially a heretical opinion, but as long as it makes some slick lather, I really don’t care about the base. Caties Bubbles has a great vegan base.
walden@wetshav.ing 1 week ago
Catie’s Bubbles is incredible, especially the Premium base.
If you want to try and tell if yours is tallow or vegan, you can tell by the color. Vegan is pretty light colored while the tallow version has a yellowish tint to it. Still, without looking at them side by side it might be hard to know.
I haven’t done a side by side comparing the tallow and vegan, but they do lather differently. I mostly hear people saying they prefer the tallow version, but it’s hard to say if it’s really better or not. People like what they know, and change is hard. The vegan takes a little more effort to load enough into the brush, so that could lead to an objectively worse lather.
Given the choice I’d pick tallow, but given that tallow isn’t available anymore, I’m ok with picking vegan!