soap eulogy

wanted to take a moment to stop in and let you all know that it IS POSSIBLE. yes, you heard it correctly. YOU CAN FINISH OFF A SOAP!!!

i have 11 soaps (used to be 12:) ) sitting in my bathroom cabinet. soap choice for the shave one of the best parts of my routine. to pick a scent to matches my mood, or better yet sometimes a scent that takes me to a mood i wish i was in. obviously some work a tad better then others and there are scents i like a smidgen more then the one next to it...however they all get used.


last night i had my final use of my QED - Grapefruit n Peppermint soap. it has served me superbly through the months and i will miss it dearly. its was a aromatic and gentle soul with lather so thick and creamly i had dreams about it.

chin up gents. surely he will return again someday!

~J

That is the saddest story i have heard :cry:

Damm, the only soap I am close to finishing up is my Taylor of OBS sandalwood. It also has been a great soap to use.

How long did it take to finish one? The only pucks I've ever finished are how ever many Williams I went through in the 15 yrs prior to joining here and SRP.

Love the avatar. When I need a smile I can always go to www.ihasabucket.com
It never fails.

i'm trying to get rid of my current soaps to make room for some soaps from TGQ, maybe some Tabac and Mama Bear.

I just finished up My Tub of Taylor of OBS St James shaving cream. Damm I loved that stuff. I guess I will have to shell out some bucks for some more.:)

I have two soaps I'm nearing the ends of.

1. Williams. First puck I ever bought. Still smells lemony. I lather that one in the cup, then rinse out the cup, much faster usage than other soaps where I just get a bit on the bristles and lather on my face.

2. Burt's Bees Bay Rum. Finished it quickly because I don't like it as a shave soap, it spent its short lifespan as a shower soap.

edit: speaking of sandalwood, it will be my next used up puck, damned I love that stuff (Art of Shaving).

WTG! :D

I have never finished a soap shaving. Giving away, using as a bath soap, and yes - throwing away, but not by actual shaving use

Cheers
Ivo

I'm waiting for my bayrum soap from KKcogle to run out so I can try another soap from my small soap mountain. I already have 3 mugs of soap in rotation and refuse to start another until one of my soaps runs out. I've been waiting for a week now. 3 lavish applications of lather every morning and bayrum is still holding up strong...DAMN YOU BAYRUM, WHY WON'T YOU DIE!!
Ernest

PS: There's nothing wrong at all with my bayrum soap, it's great smelling but I really just wanna have 2 mugs and my scuttle in rotation. But my bayrum just sits there smugly in it's mug...grinning at me asking, "Soo, when is the next shave gonna be?".

I love Bay Rum, it's just the Burt's Bees in particular I don't care for.
I don't feel it makes a very good lather. Also feels like it has some exfoliating grit in it which I see no use for.

I've finished off some Williams Mug Shaving Soap prior to joining here, and some other Col. Conk soaps and Van Der Hagen Soaps, but it's taking me a while to put a noticeable dent in my Tabac soap.

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Originally Posted by Friggin Joe

I love Bay Rum, it's just the Burt's Bees in particular I don't care for.
I don't feel it makes a very good lather. Also feels like it has some exfoliating grit in it which I see no use for.

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I have the BB bay rum shaving soap and AS balm. I like the AS balm but the shaving soap is a hand soap in my bathroom now. Colleen's bay rum w/sweet orange is my favorite bay rum soap so far. The Dominica CA bay rum AS is my absolute favorite AS.

The only thing I've finished is a tube of Proraso green-tube cream. I just can't resist its mentholly goodness this summer!

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Originally Posted by SteveS

The only thing I've finished is a tube of Proraso green-tube cream. I just can't resist its mentholly goodness this summer!

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+1 on the Proraso (but it took about 3 and a half months) and a puck of Lavender from Classic (doesn't take long - good smell, light lather and quickly gone):confused:
But I really like my Mama Bear soaps and especially for glycerine soap, seems to really last :) .

if you like Proraso, and you haven't already, try Tom's Natural (green).
I let that stay on my face a while to soften the beard during stropping and whatever else I do (classy of me to put it that way), and it's one heck of a nice feeling, right up there with proraso but maybe stronger.

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Originally Posted by Friggin Joe

if you like Proraso, and you haven't already, try Tom's Natural (green).

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Is this Tom's of Maine mint or something else? I have a tube of Tom's of Maine, but I don't like it because it smells exactly like toothpaste. If it's something else, where can one buy Tom's Natural?

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Originally Posted by jscott

last night i had my final use of my QED - Grapefruit n Peppermint soap. it has served me superbly through the months and i will miss it dearly. its was a aromatic and gentle soul with lather so thick and creamly i had dreams about it.

chin up gents. surely he will return again someday!

~J

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Well, now you have an excuse to buy another one (and half a dozen others to, you know, make the shipping economical.) :w

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Originally Posted by SteveS

Is this Tom's of Maine mint or something else? I have a tube of Tom's of Maine, but I don't like it because it smells exactly like toothpaste. If it's something else, where can one buy Tom's Natural?

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Yeah you got the right one.
The tube looks exactly like the toothpaste tube, and it does smell like the toothpaste as well. I switched my gf's Tom's toothpaste with my shaving cream and she used it.
I was bracing for an @$$kicking, but she didn't think twice but said if felt weird when she rinsed the first time. I told her is was shaving cream and she didn't beleive me at first, but then she read it and called me names, etc.
So I tried it, brushed my teeth with it. Not bad, but the rinsing part is a notable difference.
Joke didn't work out as planned.

But yeah, it sorta comes across like they just made a minor change and voila, shaving cream. A damned good one though. :)