Thread: Greetings From Long island, NY ~ New Member

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum. I sure hope you survived the thundersnow blizzard we've been hearing about; how ironic that you got a tease of spring weather the day before.

As for your soaps, I have not tried them myself. Baume.be seems to be a winner based on Obie's Top Tier soaps/creams thread, but as with anything personal, the scents can make or break one for you. Good thing Baume.be is affordably priced so you can experiment with that one and see if it suits you. As for Grim Blades, that brand is unfamiliar to me. Good luck!

Hello,
25 years of shavette! It's a kind of world record. You are like a kid getting his first bicycle after years of tricycle. More sensations, more fun, a totally new expérience. So, welcome in this new world.

Originally Posted by YoWan

Hello,
25 years of shavette! It's a kind of world record. You are like a kid getting his first bicycle after years of tricycle. More sensations, more fun, a totally new expérience. So, welcome in this new world.

YES! hahaha... now if I could just get rid of this 8 track cassette player I hear they are making records now!
But I am enjoying my new shave thanks.

Originally Posted by Speedster

Welcome to the forum. I sure hope you survived the thundersnow blizzard we've been hearing about; how ironic that you got a tease of spring weather the day before.

As for your soaps, I have not tried them myself. Baume.be seems to be a winner based on Obie's Top Tier soaps/creams thread, but as with anything personal, the scents can make or break one for you. Good thing Baume.be is affordably priced so you can experiment with that one and see if it suits you. As for Grim Blades, that brand is unfamiliar to me. Good luck!

Baume Be will be my next soap. I did order the Grim Blades Smolder yesterday during the storm. I will post after I use it. I dont have much to compare it to I have only used Van Der Hagen and am not to thrilled with it.
Heading out to do some more snow shoveling!

Wait.!!! Don't go shoveling snow. Its supposed to be close to 60° tomorrow. [emoji38]

From what I've read here, DD, almost any soap except for Williams will be a step up from Van der Hagen. So you most likely have nowhere to go but up from where you are at now.

Don't work your back too hard shoveling! Depending on the size of your drive/walk, you may easily wind up shoveling more than a ton of the white stuff! C'mon spring.

Forgot to mention that Castle Forbes shave cream is one of THE top performers, especially for glide, closeness of shave, and skin treatment. I saw an Amazon seller today pricing it at $31 with free shipping (and this isn't a Amazon Prime deal either). I've tried the Lime version and love it! They also have Lavender and Cedarwood/Sandalwood scents. Their after-shave balm is excellent stuff, too.

Originally Posted by Speedster

Forgot to mention that Castle Forbes shave cream is one of THE top performers, especially for glide, closeness of shave, and skin treatment. I saw an Amazon seller today pricing it at $31 with free shipping (and this isn't a Amazon Prime deal either). I've tried the Lime version and love it! They also have Lavender and Cedarwood/Sandalwood scents. Their after-shave balm is excellent stuff, too.

Thank You Mark. I just wrote it down on my "wish list" as I call it. The Smolder should be here today, I hope. Looking forward to it.

There won't be any comparison between the smolder and Castle Forbes, most artisanal soaps are lacking, some are good but never in the range of the established company's who have been doing this for ages.

Now having said that, my friend Bobh, believes and i do too. Most any shave soap will give a good shave if you do your job producing the lather, but after skin care is going to be in the better soaps. And scent has a great deal to do with you liking it or not. Know a couple guys who didn't care that t left their skin dry and didn't Glide worth a darn, as long as they liked the smell.

Best Buy for the money is a dozen tubes of Arko, less than a dollar bought in bulk and it is one of the better performing soaps but to me it smells like a urinal cake. So try a few, don't be swayed by a cool name but try the established soaps for your own benefit, from MDC to Arko. Tc