Thread: Cella Crema Sapone

Originally Posted by Tallships

My Cella Kilo came Friday, opened package and the aroma was mostly Almond with a hint of coconut, suddenly I had a yen for a Almond candy bar or Spumoni ,I had 3 shaves with it and have to ask. Is this stuff made in shavers heaven?

Also new to fresh cut Cella Crema Sapone and I have to agree, it is wonderful.

Originally Posted by Tallships

Now I'm going to have to buy an expensive shave bowl or mug to put it in and toss out the Van der Hagen soap. I think you guys are influencing me too much, As a young man I started out with Dad giving me a new Gillette Tech a puck of Williams and was a happy camper.

Love that heaven sent aroma?
Make sure you keep what you are shaving with in an air tight container, and away from the heat.
And the rest of the block needs to be carefully sealed/wrapped.



Fresh Cella being divided in to 100g blocks and vacuum sealed...
The scraps are pressed in to the container with the red lid.

Now I need to go out and pick up an Almond Joy candy bar...

Smooth Shaving...

Originally Posted by Tallships

My Cella Kilo came Friday, opened package and the aroma was mostly Almond with a hint of coconut, suddenly I had a yen for a Almond candy bar or Spumoni ,I had 3 shaves with it and have to ask. Is this stuff made in shavers heaven? Now I'm going to have to buy an expensive shave bowl or mug to put it in and toss out the Van der Hagen soap. I think you guys are influencing me too much, As a young man I started out with Dad giving me a new Gillette Tech a puck of Williams and was a happy camper.

Did you order it from Connaught's? If so, may I ask what it ended up costing you in US dollars, after the conversion and shipping costs?

Originally Posted by Smyth

Did you order it from Connaught's? If so, may I ask what it ended up costing you in US dollars, after the conversion and shipping costs?

Mine came from Connaught's with the Cella selling for 15.00 BP (no VAT or the "ship outside of the EU" price) and shipping was 6.20 BP - 21.20BP settled/exchange for $34.16 USD all in.

Bought Cella k @ West Coast Shaving $36.99 shipping was also for other items $15 but it was from California to Maine. Put remainder in Zip-lock drew out most air with straw a put in fridge, even tho not need to, except for cool dark place.

Update: I've always been a one at a time soap guy, puck in my mug gets low buy puck that's on drug store shelf (usually VDH od Williams) and add to my mug, But with this Cella K soap it's a whole new life style of shaving, used it with all my razors with a Crystal blade and I am one happy camper. This soap is far superior to the soaps I've used. I even had to go out and buy a $15 bowl for it, Been using this soap/cream? for well over a week and it seems that I have more soap than I started with, Is there some mysterious ingredient that makes this soap grow?

Using only 0.4cc of soap per shave means a kilo will last a long, long time.

It is a great soap.

Originally Posted by Tallships

Update: I've always been a one at a time soap guy, puck in my mug gets low buy puck that's on drug store shelf (usually VDH od Williams) and add to my mug, But with this Cella K soap it's a whole new life style of shaving, used it with all my razors with a Crystal blade and I am one happy camper. This soap is far superior to the soaps I've used. I even had to go out and buy a $15 bowl for it, Been using this soap/cream? for well over a week and it seems that I have more soap than I started with, Is there some mysterious ingredient that makes this soap grow?

Yes, it is magical, and it lasts a long time.
Make sure your bowl has a air-tight cover lest the goodness leave in the night.
No, there are no Cella Fairies that refill the bowl...but you can believe that if it helps you get to sleep at night..We try hard not to be judgmental.

Smooth Shaving..

Originally Posted by rolodave

Using only 0.4cc of soap per shave means a kilo will last a long, long time.

It is a great soap.

I've gone wild, and changed to a 40 second from a 30 second load (I have this clock with a sweep second hand mounted on the wall behind me, and I can see it in the mirror as a load up)
So right now the trend is .6cc/shave...or 1666 shave per kilo...80 months at 5 shaves a week with Cella and something else the other days...

Or you can say shave every weekday for $0.10 a week in soap...

Smooth shaving..

Update - Use rate -
So I have 30 shaves on this control.
And I have been very very generous with the loading, always having lather to spare..

30 Shaves - 30.4grams or just over 1gram/shave.
That would put you in the 1000 shaves per Kilo or 2.75 years.
And with a little care (as I was using in the beginning) I'm thinking you can get to .7g or 1400+ shaves from a Kilo.

Of course you are going to "do the right thing" and PIF at least half of that Kilo to share the love of Cella...

Smooth shaving...

A gram/shave sounds like a lot.

Do you try to save the unused suds?