Product: Bowtie
Shaving Soap
Founder: Bryon
Postlethwait
Veteran
Owned & Operated Company
When I collected the mail last week I didn’t have to opened anything
to tell that someone sent me shaving soap. The scent from the pucks just came
right through the packaging. Tobacco, Barber Shop and Mountain Rain all from
Bryon Postlethwait the owner and founder of Jeeves of Hudson Street. I sent him
a letter asking if I could do a review of his soaps and if he had any samples.
So from what he sent me I selected Mountain Rain to do this review.
I want to give you little background of Bryon. I asked him
how he got started in soap making what lead him to start his own company and
here is his reply. “I got into soap
making through my love of wet shaving. It all began while I was attending
classes at Schiller International University in Heidelberg, Germany and working
the night shift time on the local military base, at the Patrick Hennery Village
commissary. It was not uncommon for me to work 16+ plus hours in a week,
including class time. I was telling my good friend Ronaldo Saenz that I was
routinely so busy that my only hobbies included sitting down, showering, and
shaving. it didn’t take Ronaldo long to get me started on the adventure of wet
shaving. My first razor was a cheap shavette, and I used it for my first year +
of wet shaving, I had been given a boar brush and a stick of Arko. Along with
my new shave gear Ronaldo also took the liberty of adding me to my very first shave
group on Facebook, the group was The Big Shave. After the Army had announced plans to shut
down the military base my wife and I headed to Albania and then to the U.S. I
decided after about two months in the states that I was going to take the
opportunity of having the support of my friends and family and to attempt to
create a shaving soap. So after two years and many attempts different formulas
and techniques plus the encouragement from the soap artisan community I was
able to get where I am now. “
Since I had received
pucks instead of tubs I’ll be writing about that type of packaging. The soaps
are wrapped in two layers. The inner layer is wax paper and the outer a more
decorative color paper, one for each puck with the product label holding everything
tightly together. On the back, an Avery type sticker listing the ingredients
which includes Water, Steric acid,
Tallow, Cocoa Butter, Babassu Oil, Potassium Hydroxide, Sodium Hydroxide,
Fragrance Oil / Essential Oil, Caster Oil, Glycerin. The pucks are soft to
the touch and with theses I found using a bowl to be most effective method of
lathering.
The scent on Mountain Rain is sweet and citrus but here’s
how Bryon’s describes it. “A crisp,
light, clean fragrance of pristine mountain air after the rain. Soft floral
undertones mingle with juicy citrus, and hints of pine and musk to create this
wonderful scent.
On a scale of 1-10
from the puck about a 6 and when lathering it jumps to about a 7.5 in strength.
When lathering I used my Captains Choice bowl. I’ve been
getting great results but it took some experimenting since this is the larger
bowl with how much soap and were to place it. When using Bowtie soaps I find it
necessary to start with as little water as possible then building upon this by
adding just a few drops as needed. I had
my wolf whiskers brush loaded in no time with a great looking lather. I was
told by Bryon that this formula was two years in the making and recently it was
reformulated with a few tweaks to make it just right.
For my razor I used my new Scotch & Stowe Fatty. I’ve
been using this for over a week now and I have to tell you I’m getting great
results from a razor that’s $12.00 and it performed rather well with this soap.
I had slickness and glide so good that it allowed me to go back over spots without
reapplying lather.
So if you’ve never tried bowtie soaps I would urge you to
do. The other scents I received are just as amazing.
Jeeves of Hudson
Street
Bowtie Shaving Soaps
Pucks $8.00 3oz Tubs $18.00 7oz
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