Description
Declaration Grooming Epiphenomenon Artisan Shaving Soap, 4oz – Milksteak Base
Epiphenomenon is a big word that essentially means ‘a secondary effect or byproduct.’ After the demise of Bandwagon I didn’t set out to create another ‘barbershop’ – a completely subjective, ill-defined faux genre that led to multiple existential crises on the subjectivity of scent and precisely how untrustworthy our noses can be. I had no plans to develop nor release another. However, the stars aligned, and while pursuing something far from the softly masculine, powdery scent that grew into
Epiphenomenon…Epiphenomenon was born. It’s powdery, inoffensive, and slots straight into my personal conception of ‘barbershop.’
BASE: Milksteak is my tongue-in-cheek name for the culmination of all of my soap crafting experience to date. While the name may be whimsical, it was an incredibly difficult decision to deprecate Bison and Icarus – one I would not make without full confidence that I was releasing not only the best soap base I have ever developed, but one of the finest soap bases ever created.
Over three years of customer feedback, research, theory crafting and, of course, love, went into this soap base. I focused on ease of use (softer than Icarus), slickness, and post-shave – all the hallmarks of a great soap.
Ingredients: Stearic Acid, Water, Castor Oil, Potassium Hydroxide, Vegetable Glycerin, Bison Tallow, Mango Butter, Avocado Oil, Shea Butter, Sodium Hydroxide, Lanolin, Bentonite Clay, Yogurt, Buttermilk, Egg Whites, Coconut Milk, Goat’s Milk, Tocopheryl Acetate, Maltodextrin, Milk Protein, Salix Alba L. (White Willow) Bark Extract, Arctium lappa (Burdock) Root Extract, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Silk Amino Acids
