Thread: If You Absolutely Could Not Buy MCD Or Castle Forbes

This morning I had a great shave with one of my Puma 6/8 razors and Tabac Soap. I love Tabac. I’ll always have it around and it got me to thinking if there was no possible way for me to buy MDC or Castle Forbes What would be my favorite soap or cream? So I thought I’d ask my fellow straight razor shavers;

For me I think it would be Tabac and L’Occitane Soap and for Cream I’d go with TOBS.

If I had to pick only one? Tabac Soap

Taylor of Old Bond Street Sandalwood Shaving Cream or the similar scent from Cyril L. Salter. Both give great glide and my skin feels great afterwards. Don’t even need a pre-shave or aftershave.

Also shaved with Tabac this morning, and I just love the scent, the price, and the ease with which it lathers.

Tabac is a good one. There is also Musgo Real, LeToja, Spieck, Volobra.

Baume be shaving cream

I'm not the biggest fan of CF in all honesty

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Any flavor of B&M. Castle Forbes didn’t even come close to living up to the hype.

I tried a sample of Baume.be last week and absolutely loved the performance. Can't imagine finding a better value in shaving cream, but for me the scent was rather bland compared to XPEC or CF Lime.

Speick stick is also a great soap for the money, IMHO. Reminds me of Tabac in scent.

I’m actually not a big fan of the mass produced soaps or creams. I always use American made artisan shave soaps. My top three currently are: Barrister and Mann; Wholly Kaw; and Grooming Dept. Talbot Shaving is another excellent soap maker, but as a hobbyist his products are hard to come by.

Id have to go with wholykaw or Oleo. I wasnt a fan of Tabac. But it came in a nice glass jar.