Thread: Are You Ever Satisfied?

No. I'm not. I'm bad about seeing a new scent and instantly wanting to try it. Honestly I've probably got enough soaps and creams to last me a good year or two. It is all about what I want to smell when I wake up.

One year ago i was down to 4 soaps. I thought this a major accomplishment. Now I have about 20 pucks and creams. Several are samples but I still count them as you typically get quite a few shaves from a puck sample.

Hit the manufacturer's web sites and try their sample packs. Probably the most economical way to try different products.

Dave

Gentlemen,

Lathering with a silvertip brush and a quality soap or cream is pure joy for me. Sometimes I feel it is the best part of the daily shave. For that reason, I have bought and sold scores of brushes. The same is true of creams and soaps, except that I often pass the brands I don't want to family and friends.

After many years, I have settled on the steady lineup of Martin de Candre soap; Castle Forbes cream; Santa Maria Novella cream; Truefitt & Hill's Ultimate Comfort cream (I found this about 10 or 12 years ago and have rarely missed using it); Xpec cream (no longer made, although I have a wee bit left); Klar Kabinett (great German barber soap); The Art of Shaving soap (old formula); Taylor of Old Bond Street "natural" (good for sensitive skin); and Czech & Speake (good in every way).

Gone are the Harris range; some of the French and Spanish soaps and creams; Mitchell's Wool Fat; Tabac and scores of others. More in the shave den will go sooner or later. Artisan soaps, for the most part, do little for me, and I find many of them alike in many ways. In the meantime, I continue to try new things, not that I am unsatisfied with what I have, no, it is because I am curious about shave soaps and creams.

There are so many fine ones out there for me to try. Yes, it's expensive, but quality does cost money. And after all, I cannot resist that luscious experience of lathering every morning.

It's weird, because for me the "software" is the least interesting part of shaving, but I seem to have an inordinate amount of it hanging around. I just don't know where it all comes from. I'm like some weird shaving cream obsessed doomsday prepper...

I have a lot of soaps/croaps, something like 40+ tubs, kilo of cella, and a bunch of samples. I kind of went crazy my in my 1st year. Haven't bought any since. Even started shaving my head 2 years ago in an attempt to use it up. In the 3 yrs I've been SR. shaving, I don't think I've ever manage to empty a complete tub. I can see the bottom on a few, but there is still plenty along the sides. Some of the tallows are getting kind of strong. I guess they are starting to go bad.
I have to agree with Obie, the lathering is probably the most enjoyable aspect to wet shaving.

I have only been in the game for a little while now and as Obie has stated I enjoy the lathering process as well, possibly my favorite part. Currently I have around 15 different creams and soaps and I thought that I had found a possible work horse/go-to cream with Truefitt & Hill Trafalgar this week, but after going back to my first soap, Col. Conk, it reinforced to me that I really like using different creams/soaps. So long story short, I don't see me anytime soon stopping buy cream/soap buying habit.

The latest always seems the greatest to me, currently it is proraso red.

Some of what I've tried. Some to be tried yet. I have seven or eight samples and a few full sized soaps at my work place home and some in the shave room here at home also. Proraso green and that puck of mwf are my go to every day soaps.

I have about 20 different soaps, and creams. My favorite is MDC, and poraso red.

I will occasionally binge lather either to use up a puck/tub or I am just very happy with the shaves I am getting. I see no evil in this.