Thread: Is there a bad Italian soap or creme?

Originally Posted by BobH

Exactly, I did not say Vitos Red was not an excellent soap for shaving with only that the scent was not to my liking. So that is the conundrum with with quite a few soaps for a lot of people. They are technically very good to shave with but some scents do not endear themselves to some people. Tabac is a classic example of that, very good soap to shave with but the scent is off putting to quite a few people. Me, I love Tabac all around oddly enough. You really can't leave scent out of the equation when looking at a soap as good or bad on an individual by individual basis. That is the part that makes selecting a new soap very difficult.

Bob

I totally agree with you. The scent is very important to give value to a soap. In Italy, too many friends do not like the scent of Tabac. For me Tabac is a great soap and I love it even her perfume. For these reasons, it is one of my favorites.

Originally Posted by BobH

Had my Vitos for a year and the scent that is present today, which I would not describe as almond, is not pleasant to me.

To get a scent recalling almond, the easiest thing to do is adding benzaldehyde to your cream or soap. It can be easily synthesized and has an almond-like scent. It is widely used in cosmetics and most of almond scent shaving creams or soaps have it. In real almonds what gives them their typical scent is amygdalin which can be broken up into benzaldehyde. Synthesizing benzaldehyde is very easy and cheap and it can be obtained from many processes or techniques.

Originally Posted by stefanosup

They say it is a scent of almond, but it is very artificial. It is not a pleasant scent. In addition, where I am the scent fades after a few months. My Vito's green no more 'perfume. Red is new and still has its own fragrance.
The true scent of almond soap Italian you can find it in Panama De Boellis for me.

I'll have to put Panama De Boellis on the list, thanks.

Bob

WOW--that sounds great ,do the girls like it?@ 73 I AM DESPERATEWill have to try it soon when the pravoso runs out.Thank you.------William.

Originally Posted by semperfi6141

WOW--that sounds great ,do the girls like it?@ 73 I AM DESPERATEWill have to try it soon when the pravoso runs out.Thank you.------William.

When I'd used the Tcheon Fung Sing Bergamotto Neroli for the first time, my girlfriend commented on how nicely I smelled. I thought she meant my EdC, but she said no, it's the shaving soap.

If there is a bad one I haven't run into it yet and yes I like Proraso too.

Originally Posted by Laurens

I could also recommend Tcheon Fung Sing. I'm trying to buy more of the Bergamotto Neroli but the webshop has been out of stock for a while. It's cheap and beats MWF for me, similar in performance but a much better scent.

ANOTHER ONE! You sure make it hard on the AD!

Originally Posted by Ignatius

ANOTHER ONE! You sure make it hard on the AD!

They make very good shaving soaps for sure! Cheap and very performing. TFS soaps are among my favorite ones since a very long, long time.

Originally Posted by razorguy

They make very good shaving soaps for sure! Cheap and very performing. TFS soaps are among my favorite ones since a very long, long time.

recently it is also one of my favorites! Ever since I gave it to a friend of mine ...... you know something?

Originally Posted by stefanosup

recently it is also one of my favorites! Ever since I gave it to a friend of mine ...... you know something?

You really? I did not know you gave that red tub of TFS to a friend of yours! I hope he liked it!