Thread: Abbate Y La Mantia

Back in stock at Italian Barber.

Annnnnnnd inbound!

Been using the Krokos saffron this past week for my mid day shaves and still find it an excellent soap. For me it performs as well as Tabac or Boellis Panama 1924 for me and that is pretty good company, again for me.

The only thing I'll say at this point is I'd rather pay a similar price for a 250gr block of the Boellis or less for Tabac considering the deals on Amazon recently on that. That does not detract, however, one bit from the excellent performance of the Krokos saffron soap.

Bob

I agree with Bob. It is a good soap but there are a lot of others out there for less costs.

My sample (thanks TC) gives a good shave but at the present Kronkos is not one I will buy.

I've enjoyed the performance of Krokos, but as others have mentioned, wished that it had more scent. Has anyone tried their other soaps, and can comment on their scent?

Remember Saffron is a spice and not an overpowering one either. For cooking it's subtle. Also Saffron is expensive, very expensive.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Remember Saffron is a spice and not an overpowering one either. For cooking it's subtle. Also Saffron is expensive, very expensive.

Yes, granted it is expensive and not overpowering. I have trouble seeing where adding that expensive ingredient has improved the performance over the other soaps I mentioned which, to my knowledge, do not contain saffron as an ingredient. It does do one obvious thing and that is increase the cost pretty substantially though.

Bob