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I'm pretty new to wet and straight shaving and the thread about favorite soaps and creams got me to wondering: How do you guys who like different soaps and scents use multiple soaps? Do you finish one and then go on to a next favorite? Do you have multiple soap mugs? Do you store your soaps outside of your mug and put in the one you feel like using on any given day? Or is it some other method I cant think of?
I store my soap in small ziplock bowls, in fact i just leave them in there. After soaking my brush and shaking out a lot of the water i "load" my brush with soap, about 10 swirls on the puck mixed with 4 or 5 pumps up and down. then i take the brush to the bowl i make lather in add a little water and swirl away to a glorious bowl of fragrent lush lather.
after the shave i normally set the lid on the bowl of soap, loose so it can dry, and the next day i seal it. This method works for me, YMMV.
+1, Mama Bear, QED and quite a few other soaps come with a storage bowl, I also use the ziplocs like Jim mentioned above they work great. I usually don't worry about my soaps drying though...Quote:
Originally Posted by syslight
I have one mug. I fill it and use it until it's empty, then fill it again.
For variety or special occasions, I switch to a cream.
I started out with Williams soap, then began to try other soaps. I was unwilling to through out a good puck of william's soap so I bought other mugs. Now I have a cupboard with about 5 kinds of soaps. I really shoulda just used one soap and one mug at a time but I can't help it, they all smell so good!
Ernest
+2, with Sys - have 15+ soaps, MB, GQ, C&E, etc...I use the ziplocks, both screw on and snap lid (depending on puck size), and MB's come in their own containers.
K
Ziplocks for me as well. I've got about 9 soaps in rotation now...
Ant
I have about 6 soaps, and 6 creams that I usually rotate throughout each morning. I recently tried out Colleen's soaps at TQG and they are fantastic....I think my soap/cream count is about to go up again.
The creams I store in their original containers and the soaps I melt down into these great little bowls which fit very nicely into the palm of your hand... check out my SOTD pic today if you'd like to see the size.
Each soap has it's own container in my house. What I use depends on my mood. As a matter of fact I've yet to use one soap untill it was gone.
I've got a wide variety of soaps and creams. I lather on my face instead of a mug so I just store them in the containers I received them. I use whatever I feel like using on a given morning.... or evening...or whenever.
I have ~15 soaps. Don't use all of them, and some I haven't even tried yet. (I also use a few creams)
Storage varies:
original soap container (plastic, ceramic, wooden, pewter bols)
Ziplock bowls
Ziplock bags (the ones I haven't even tried yet and just received like this)
little glass bowls (w. lids, but lids got lost; these I got from my wife, not sure but I think they were originally intended for storing food)
No soap of mine is in a mug. I don't own a mug, actually. :shrug: I use either a dr. Moss scuttle (and mostly lather on face) or a pot I got from Le Gourmet Chef (for whipping lather).
Cheers
Ivo
I counted 19 different soaps in my bathroom the other day.:nono:
I have tried most of them. In the beginning, I wasn't lathering well, but since I perfected that proceedure, I'm revisiting some of the ones I didn't like at first and discovered they aren't that bad.
I am dying to try Castle Forbes, but I can't seem to justify the purchase:hmmm:
Hey, may as well make it 20!!! :)
I don't know how much longer I'm gonna be around, but I suspect I could never buy another soap the rest of my life and have plenty left over. - ...and I still want more!!
Steve
Wow, Steve - I didn't know CF made soaps... May need to check this out :)Quote:
Originally Posted by zepplin
Cheers
Ivo
It's $35.00 per jar, about 6oz or so.... It's Lynn's all time favorite and comes very, very highly recommended by some of our heavyweight experts here at SRP.Quote:
Originally Posted by izlat
Steve
Steve, are you sure it's a shaving soap? I only know of CF bath soaps
Where can I buy the CF shaving soap? And what scents are available? (I don't like limes and lavender, so I have not tried the creams yet and am not sure I want to)
Cheers
Ivo
Ivo,Quote:
Originally Posted by izlat
Here are a few places tobuy the Casle Forbes SC:
http://www.shavingshop.com/index.php...4da35b051648a9
http://www.sesto-senso.com/castle-fo...ing-cream.html
http://www.vintageblades.net/vshop/x...?productid=623
and Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Castle-Forbes-.../dp/B0007XKGUO
* Looks like the choice of scents are Lavender or Lime *
Happy Trails,
Steve
I forgot to mention, the Castle Forbes is a shaving cream, not a hard soap.
Steve
I used Williams for 15 years and I have just branched out with some of the Col. Cronk and Mama Bear. It is a very nice treat to switch soaps for a new fragrance. I like the zip lock bowl idea for those that don't come in a bowl.:hmmm:
Most of my soaps come in their won containers ... wooden bowls, or Mamabear tubs. Others come 'naked', and I put them in glass bowls with plastic lids (Anchor Hocking makes great 1-cup bowls, and if it's a glycerine soap you just melt it into place!) So no, I don't do the ziplock thing ... but to each his own, eh!
Yes, Steve - I thought so. I got excited, because I knew the cream has great reputaiton but I don't think I'd like the scents. And then this thread was about using soaps so I decided that you were talking about a CS shaving soap, that I had missed somehow...Quote:
Originally Posted by zepplin
But I checked the site and still nothing so I thought you must have been talking about the cream.
False alarm on my side - thanks for taking the time :D
Ivo
I spend part of each morning (and occasionally the night before -- yes, I need to get out more often, too) with a mixture of joyful anticipation of the soap I will be using for my shave and on the other hand a feeling of wasteful frivolity in purchasing the more than a dozen soaps I have in my drawer.
If a soap doesn't rock my boat it ends up as bath soap. This usually if it irritates my face or plain won't lather well.
I'll have to see what happens three or more years down the line when I actually use up these soaps. Expect I'll limit the rotation to three or four.