Thread: Best "Local" Shave Soap/Cream

I would prefer AoS cream is prevalent in Vancouver, so I would get all of the different scents they have.
I can easily get Proraso, but I just don't enjoy it as well as the scents.
Having said this, if this hypothetical situation were to occur, I would learn to make my own soap.

AoS for me in Knoxville, they also carry some Penhaligons products. There's also a Sephora that carries some l'Occitane products in the same mall. Now if Sephora could just swing a deal to carry Dior shaving cream and ASB ...

Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by RezDog

I would have to travel great distances to get any of those, except ivory bar soap. It would be like before I discovered on line wet shaving stores and I would have to stock up when I went to Canada. I used to get tubs of Proraso when I was in Prince Rupert but the Shoppers Drug Mart does not stock it anymore and what they do stock is worse than ivory. I’m in a pickle unless I get to Vancouver or Victoria or Prince George.

Shaun, you would just have to resort to using baby seal fat! Tc

This is our local Dutch stuff. I didn't like it. It was the soap I started wet shaving with, dries out very quickly.

Interesting question...

When it comes to stuff that I can get from retailers I have the rather regular options of:
VDH
Creamo
Art of Shaving
Whatever the repackaged Proraso is called that Bath and Bodyworks sells.

I'm not a huge fan of any of these but I'm lucky enough to have Sudsy Soapery and Chatillon Lux in the area and would likely be using nothing but those products.

So my local shave shop has them all. So I would never be without a good variety. They are about twenty minutes drive. They make their own so truly local is Esbjerg so you know I would be in such a terrible plight...of too many choices still.

A mall a few miles from me has an AOS store, Bath&BodyWorks, L'Occitane, and Crabtree & Evelyn, and local pharmacies have Pré de Provence.

It all depends on how you define "local". I live in the suburbs of Chicago. I have an AOS store about 20 miles away and Mertz Apothacary/Q Brothers/Smallflower is about 40 miles away. Furthermore, Oleo Soapworks is in Chicago. And for brushes, TurnNShave is located in Chicago as well. There is even a Truefitt & Hill store in the Chicago Loop.

However, I have yet to visit either of these locations. I prefer to order online and avoid the Chicago traffic.

We have an Art of Shaving here in Nashville. There is also a local artisan, Music City Suds. Their shaving soap base is very good. Some of their scents aren't for me. I've heard that Nivea is pretty good and have seen that here.

Van der Hagen and C.O. Bigelow (Poraso) by Bath and Body Works. Both work well for me and I like them.