What is your favorite cream?

I normally use soaps for shaving, but I recently tried Proraso. I am now thinking of using more creams. I seem to be able to make better lather in a lot less time. Also, the Proraso works great. Without much knowledge of creams, I want to know what you use and why.

Thannk you,
Bill

I quite like the C&E range - Nomad and Sienna in particular. They have a pleasant fragrance and make a very good lather. But they are on the expensive side, at least here in Australia. The glass containers they come in also come in useful for storage containers after you've used up the cream.

The Body Shop's shaving cream is good value for money, and you need very little of it to make a nice thick cream. Fragrance is not to everyone's taste though, I'd imagine (bit sandalwoody).

I've also used a few others from here and there, but those above are my favourites.

James.

normally i use soaps as well but for a change of pace i use the 3 T's(truefitt and Hill, Trumper's and Taylors) i find them a little more moisturizing than the soaps and i the scents availble are great... it is very hard to find T&h soaps in any of their good scents... at least here in the US

i just like the english products and if i had not stumbeld into this sit last year those is what i would be using ... not the soap from colleen which i love.

so far - the body shop shave cream, almost without scent.

+1 on the C&E line!
I love all of them with Nomad and Sandalwood being my favorites. Readily available too.

But....

My absolute favorite would have to go to Floris JF!!:tu
Scent - Awesome
Performance - Awesome

My best cream at the moment is St James of London! I also couldn't go without the Truefitt & Hill collection! Pair a quality english cream with a scuttle and the lather just explodes! At least we can get that right... Who'd have thought our national rugby team could lose to the Welsh after reaching the final of the World Cup last year??!:gth :OT

OK, I know it's been covered to death, but I've got to mention Castle Forbes Lavendar. It is without doubt the easiest lather to whip up, great cushion, nice and thick, retains the moisture well, lasts for a good few months and smells like a walk through a field in Provence on a sunny day.

I've ried T&H, Trumpers, L'Occitane, DR Harris, Floris, and Proraso, and though they're all pretty good to excellent, I fnd the CF unsurpassed in every category.

Except price.

Proraso green.

I usually use soaps also, but for creams - T&H and C&E are probably my favorite English creams. Colleen at TGQ makes a cream that's as good as anything I've tried. Speick and Musgo Real are both excellent and affordable.

Jordan

C&E Sweet Almond hummmmmmm

I like Trumpers lime. Goes great with their face food.

There are so many that it's difficult to choose just one.

The top three in my rotation right now are T&H Limes, Musgo Real, and Truemper's Violet.

I have no idea what I'll be using tomorrow.

I am a slut when it comes to shaving creams. I want to do them all! :p

Omega shaving cream from Italy.

I got addictet to the nice cooling effect:rolleyes:

I have the Taylor's of Old Bond Street Lavender
and St. James Collection. Both smell very
nice and whip up a good lather using very little product.

John

Having tried many of the above mentioned creams, and not knocking any of them. Castle Forbes Lavender is still in a class by itself, both scent wise, and performance wise... Unfortunately it is in a class by itself price wise also :)

My Castle Forbes Lavendar sample ran out and in a move for which I still kick myself, I replaced it with the CF Sandalwood-Cedar (Cedarwood Scandal??). "Wet sawdust", is swell, just swell.:cry:

The current favorites are Taylor's Almond, Speick, and Erasmic. I'll likely go back to the CF Lavendar once I force my way through the jar of wet sawdust. At least I can start the day green - you know, hug a tree for Mother Earth,:bow but Speick and Erasmic both have their charms and neither smells of wet sawdust. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My current rotation:
Trumper's Coconut (nice lather, great scent IMO (some say it smells like suntan lotion), a little pricey)
Art of Shaving Lavender (nice lavender scent, good lather, pricey)
Nancy Boy Replenishing (great cucumber scent, strange brand name, uses a lot more water than most creams to get a good lather, great moisturizing properties)

Coates Lime (no longer made,glad I have a full pot)
DR Harris Lavender.:nj

Vanilla.
With white-chocolate sauce, and fresh whipped cream on top.

For shaving I prefer Taylor of Old Bond Street, the St James collection.

The art Of Shaving unscented, i like it much better then T&H, lather is much thicker.

The one thats just knocked me out for smoothness ,lubrication& light scent is The Vulfix old original Persian musk.
I got mine from the gentelemans shop in Hungerford,which just happens to be a short drive from where I live.its become the cream that I use the most,it just seems to give great results no matter which razor I use.

If I had to pick just one to use, I probably would go with Mugso Real. A close second would be TOBS Avocado.

Proraso green.

Proraso.......

I really only use creams when travelling, but then I use C&E Nomad almost exclusively....although I really don't know all that much about creams because I find soaps easier and more forgiving.

Mark

Anything by Castle Forbes, or Mama Bear or Colleen at thegentlemansquarters.com!

So far TOBS Lavender followed by
TOBS St. James Collection.

John

I too second thegentlemensquarter

You can check out Colleen's shaving creams at:

http://www.thegentlemensquarter.com/ or you can PM her at churley, she is a member here.

She makes some outstanding shave creams and all I have tried smell and feel wonderful. They are super easy to lather up and come in nice variety of scents. Her floral scents are great but if you are not into florals, check out her Cavendish Black, Desert Ironwood, or my personal favorite, Bay Rum Sweet Orange. You can't go wrong with any of them though. Enjoy.

Kyle

Floris Santal.

+1 on the C&E Sweet Almond!! Also love the scent of Trumper Violet. I have a tub of Kiehl's...nice lather but the scent is a bit medicinal.

Taylor's Almond

Trumper's Coconut is my all-around favorite cream.

TOBS rose for a relaxing shave.

Proraso green to wake me up in the morning.

Arko shave cream. I like the Commando scented cream. It seems to have a herbal/floral scent. It leaves my skin feeling moisturized. The aftershave with matching Commando scent only compliments it and stays for a long time. I buy my Arko creams from Tulumba at http://www.tulumba.com/storeItemSrc....rc=Arko&t=Arko
Ernest

I also have quite a few of these.
My favorites that I seem to use most ar Trumpers Lime and AOS lavender.

The best part about proraso is how it makes your face tingle. I am thinking about ditching soaps for that reason alone.

can you still get proraso at the body works? I know that target no longer has it.

The cream that has given me the absolute best result so far has been Tabula Rasa. I got the dark lavender scent and love it. It may just have the right chemistry for my face, I don't know... but from the first time I tried it every shave has been pure heaven.