just got my first ever tub of Taylor Of Old Bond Street Sandalwood Shave Cream from the SRD website!

been using the Sandalwood shave soap in the wooden bowl for a few months and love it..smells great..shaves great...good cushion...no irritation....but I figured it was time to give the shave cream a try...

first impressions, they give you a decent amount in the tub, actually was quite a lot... it smells nice, maybe a little bit of a chemical smell compared to the shave soap....but nice....

at first I put on an almond size drop in my bowl and proceeded to mix up a nice lather with my Omega Pure badger hair brush....it made quite a nice cream...plenty of it....but it was lacking something...not as much glide as i expected...

so I then decided to coat the bristles of the brush with a generous but not excessive amount of cream...and proceeded to face lather like i would with a hard soap...adding water a few drops at a time directly to the brush....

all i can say is HOLY CRAP this is definitely the way to go...something about the face lathering really made ALL the difference in the texture, thickness and "slickness" of the lather! it really created a beautiful layer of lather...like nothing I've tried before....velvety feeling and almost soothing to the skin....i went ahead and uber lathered just for fun...squeezing the bristles to extract every bit of lather....

this was just a trial lathering haha to see how this cream would work and i would love to give it a 10+ right now! but will wait until i actually shave with it tomorrow!