Steve, my friend,
The point is: that it is hard to say — for me to say — which is the "best" soap or cream, because my point is subjective. I can only offer my opinion. I can only speak of the quality of various products to various degrees from a personal view.
For instance, I cannot say Castle Forbes is the best cream, especially since I have not tried everything out on the market, and that what is best for me may not be so for someone else. Rather, Castle Forbes is the highest quality — overall — of the creams I have tried.
Not only that, but for me, the cream sets the bench mark for all the creams I have tried. Still, that does not mean I can say "Castle Forbes is the best cream on the market." Yes, the highest overall quality cream I have used, to repeat myself.
As an aside, another cream that I have tried in recent months and liked enormously is the OneBlade lavender. I find it exceptional in overall performance, and the lavender fragrance is earthy — true lavender, a friend called it — and close to that of the Castle Forbes lavender.
I know we throw the term "best" or "worst" around in casual conversation. When it comes to offering concrete conclusion — opinion, actually — in soaps and creams, we can only be reasonably specific about the degree of quality. At least that's how I review a product — through how it performs in my shave.
I suspect all reviews — of books, movies, foods, razors, shave products, every thing. I am also suspicious of reviewers, in general, including myself, because we're dealing with human beings, and we are far from perfect.
The great opera composer Rossini said, in so many words, that being a critic was the world's most useless profession.
I agree with that. I can only direct our members here to the products I have tried and give my opinion on them in determining the degree of quality in each product.
Geese, all this fancy talk and I still have not had my breakfast. OY!