1. No cheese involved in the making, it is 100% soap.
2. Brittle? You are wack. It is nice and soft and MARVELOUS to the touch...
Well, actually, in all fairness. Now that Charmonium, has mentioned that company name. I've been able to look up a similar product, i.e. ...
www.carbon2cobalt.com
Which looks remarkably like your product. Which is a good sign.
It shows my lack of experience with speciality soaps. Because that one, also seems to look like Cheese to me.
I mentioned 'brittle', because when you zoom into your supplied picture. It does seem to have come apart with various, small broken up sections (not too bad though).
Maybe the photo, is not doing it justice for me. Since I can't feel or smell it, etc.