Thread: Do you prefer soaps or creams

I want to know what most of you use. I cant ask at other forums because they mainly use the DE and with a straight, things are different. Ive only tried Tabac soap before and it was real good at first but so far Proraso RED cream is the best. Ive only tried those and Musgo Real. Ive also tried mama bears unscented soap and I still found the Proraso much better. I still have proraso GREEN and Speick sitting untouched in my medicine cabinet. Soaps can get expensive. I was planning on getting the Mitchell's Wool Fat and Pre De Provence as well as Provence Sante but I don't know anymore..do soaps work better with the str8 or do some of you still use creams daily? and if you changed anything and found it to work much better with the straight, please post what it is, cream or soap! thanks.

Soap for me. QED is my favorite.

I have used both and preferred soaps up until recently when a friend showed me "Super Lather". I had read about loading the brush with soap then tossing an almond sized dollop of cream into a bowl and lathering but had never tried it.

A friend of mine was honing up a Goldedge for me. When he was done he wanted me to shave with it there and then to prove his honing skills. I chose one of his soaps and did my usual DE shave face lathering routine. Right off the bat he told me that I didn't have enough lather. He took the brush and the fore mentioned almond sized pellet of cream and re-lathered in a bowl.

Came up with the kind of rich creamy gobs of lather I had seen in some review photos. I have been doing this ever since. I like soaps from QED, Trumpers, Harris, MWF, and Tabac. Creams from Salter's and Castle Forbes are real nice. I have to try more creams but I have been doing the Super Lather in a bowl since that day and it is now my default routine. Try it you'll like it.

They both work just fine, but I prefer creams. Especially TGQ creams. Colleen's stuff rules all!

I like to vary it up as much as the next guy, but I prefer soaps. Maybe it's just my water, but soaps always seem a bit slicker.

I generally prefer soaps, but still use creams from time to time. I find soaps a little slicker and lighter. The lightness helps me get better feedback from the razor. Something I don't really need with a DE. You should use whatever you like. If creams work better for you, so be it. No big deal.

Jordan

Edit: Speick cream is one of the best performing I've tried.

I prefer creams, actually in rotation: AOS unscented, T&H Grafton and 1805, eshave white tea, Vulfix sicilian lime, Taylor St James - and two more for travelling purposes (in tube): T&H Ultimate comfort and GFT limes... Besides RAD, BAD, SAD, HAD... CAD is also a problem for me (but fortunately, I don't need to much cream to create a nice lather, so they last me quite long)

I use also - from time to time - two soaps, the l'Occitane Cade and the T&H but usually I find soap alone less moisturising and more difficult to make a nice lather from it (sometime I like to use a soap first, then add a drop of cream right in the middle of the brush to create a "big" lather)

But it is only my way...

I've used soaps exclusively up until this point but will definitely try out some creams in the future.

I use them both but I prefer Creams.

I used to use Williams mug soap, but recently recieved a sample pack of Colleens soaps. Man what a difference! When the samples run out I will definately buy more from her.