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    Default Has anyone else tried Green Mountain Soap Company Soap?

    I bought some of this shaving soap at a farmer's market. They're from my home town. Anyway, it's thick, luxurious lather, fine fragrance, pretty much everything I expected in a shaving soap. If there's better, I'd like to hear about it. What do y'all think?

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    Yep it's been around for a bit , sone other threads on it you want to look it up in the library, it's ok , but I wound up giving it away , but if your going to ask if there's better out there , you,ll need a lot of time to read, there are better in the 1$ range to 100$. Lots of very good soaps out there, I personally didn't like the glide or the feeling it left on my face, several of the artisan soaps did that to me , so I stay away from them now, but YMMV. tc
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    I'm a serious noob and GMS is all I've tried. I like it, but figure that there might be better out there. I mean, what's the odds that I got the best on the first shot. Thanks for the perspective. I'll know to shop around when this soap starts to run out.

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    Been at this game for a few years. For my face, I do appreciate the GM soaps that I have tried. If I also use their bar soap in the shower to wash it; my face is smoother during the lathered shave with their puck soaps or even with other products.
    They do well to be anti allergenic and do succeed to a great extent.

    That said, I am one of those that needs a final buffing pass to clean the last of the stubble off on water or aftershave. So the retained glide of the GM and similar soaps is a plus.

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    I like their soaps. The puck is perfectly made for a Marvy mug. Good post shave feel and great slickness.

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    Good soap. I like the unscented best. One of the first soaps I tried when I started using straights. I like the bar soaps too.

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    Takem01,
    I tried the soap a while back and found it unimpressive. It went to the shower.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CrownCork View Post
    I like their soaps. The puck is perfectly made for a Marvy mug. Good post shave feel and great slickness.
    LOL. Exactly how I use the GM puck in my Green Marvy. For me this soap takes a bit more water and I am able to generate a nice cream in the mug. I think these barbers mugs were made so large because barbers actually generated a cream lather in their mugs and this gave them the room to do it. I don't think barbers face lathered clients.

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    I,m not sure how they did it 100 years ago but the straight shaves I seen at the local barber shop as a young man (my dad and grandfather always got a shave back then) and the few I had , when they still used the soap, they swirled it in the mug a little then went straight to the face and face lathered it up, I find lathering in the mug on top of the soap kinda hard, it just keeps loading soap , but I guess that's how you can use a puck up pretty quick! Tc
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    Quote Originally Posted by tcrideshd View Post
    I,m not sure how they did it 100 years ago but the straight shaves I seen at the local barber shop as a young man (my dad and grandfather always got a shave back then) and the few I had , when they still used the soap, they swirled it in the mug a little then went straight to the face and face lathered it up, I find lathering in the mug on top of the soap kinda hard, it just keeps loading soap , but I guess that's how you can use a puck up pretty quick! Tc
    That is the same as my recollection from when I was a kid. Have also seen those commercial hot lather machines used. Personally, I don't see much point in building lather on a soap puck for the same reason also. I just load a proto lather and build a lather on my face.

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