Skip tallow soap if you're loyal to synthetic detergents.
Some people love that squeaky, stripped, please-apply-lotion-now feeling. No judgment.
No synthetic surfactants. It cleans without stripping your skin, and it keeps the glycerin that detergent bars take out and sell back to you as moisturizer.
There’s a comfort in the familiar. That tight, squeaky feeling after a shower. The reach for lotion ten minutes later to fix what the soap just did. If that’s your rhythm, tallow soap is going to break it.
Most modern bars aren’t soap at all, they’re synthetic detergents. They strip your skin’s own oils, and many strip out the glycerin too, the good stuff, which gets bottled and sold back to you as moisturizer. Tallow soap doesn’t run that play. It cleans with a stable lather, no synthetic surfactants, and leaves your skin’s barrier where it found it. No tightness. No lotion penalty.
Annoying, if you were emotionally attached to the squeak.