Thread: Mama Bear's

Gentlemen,

After hearing all the raving about Mama Bear, yesterday I finally broke down and ordered an unscented tub of this soap. Now I wait with much anticipation.

Regards,

Obie

I have tried several different Mama Bear's soaps. I have only tried one that I would call fruity and that is the Tahitian Vanilla. To me it has a strong sweet fruity scent.

I like to mix soaps and creams together in a scuttle and two of my favorite combinations so far are the Tahitian Vanilla with Cyril R. Salter's classic almond and the other combination is Mama Bear's Ye Olde Barbershoppe and Musgo Real creme. The Ye Old Barbershoppe is probably my favorite of Mama Bear's soap that I have tried up to this point. I have only tried 6 or 8 different Mama Bear's soaps and have enjoyed each one of them. I plan on trying many more of her soaps.

If you like fruity or citrus scents you may want to try her Mandarin Ice Summer After shave.

Not trying to hijack this thread, but which is better and why: Mama bears or MWF? Im sure at least 2 on this thread have experienced them both recently if I am correct...im looking at getting a new soap, but im still trying 2 decide which one to get!

I know I wont be disappointed with either, id just like to know why one may be preferable.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Scipio

Not trying to hijack this thread, but which is better and why: Mama bears or MWF? Im sure at least 2 on this thread have experienced them both recently if I am correct...im looking at getting a new soap, but im still trying 2 decide which one to get!

I know I wont be disappointed with either, id just like to know why one may be preferable.

Thanks

Sir they are two different animals. One is glycerin and one is milled. MB works up a lather much quicker and her scents are fantastic. MWF takes some work to lather, but when you get it right it is a super rich lather and very lubercating and really no scent but soap smell lol.
So really not a good comparison, so get both.

Originally Posted by lesshairy

I have tried several different Mama Bear's soaps. I have only tried one that I would call fruity and that is the Tahitian Vanilla. To me it has a strong sweet fruity scent.

I like to mix soaps and creams together in a scuttle and two of my favorite combinations so far are the Tahitian Vanilla with Cyril R. Salter's classic almond and the other combination is Mama Bear's Ye Olde Barbershoppe and Musgo Real creme. The Ye Old Barbershoppe is probably my favorite of Mama Bear's soap that I have tried up to this point. I have only tried 6 or 8 different Mama Bear's soaps and have enjoyed each one of them. I plan on trying many more of her soaps.

If you like fruity or citrus scents you may want to try her Mandarin Ice Summer After shave.

I never mixed them before. I have to try to mix some soaps. Ive done my unscented with others but not 2 scented ones. What is the Ye Old scent? Is it like Bay Rum?

Originally Posted by Scipio

Not trying to hijack this thread, but which is better and why: Mama bears or MWF? Im sure at least 2 on this thread have experienced them both recently if I am correct...im looking at getting a new soap, but im still trying 2 decide which one to get!

I know I wont be disappointed with either, id just like to know why one may be preferable.

Thanks

Which Soap is MWF?

Originally Posted by kooray83

I never mixed them before. I have to try to mix some soaps. Ive done my unscented with others but not 2 scented ones. What is the Ye Old scent? Is it like Bay Rum?

I find there is a hint of a Bay Rum scent. It is light and clean. If you go to the Mama Bear's site, she describes the different scents better than I can.

To me, this scent reminds me of the fresh clean smells of a traditional old style barbershop.

Originally Posted by kooray83

Which Soap is MWF?

It is Mitchell's Wool Fat shaving soap. If you do a search here on SRP there is a lot of discussion regarding this soap plus SRD has a good description.

Originally Posted by Scipio

Not trying to hijack this thread, but which is better and why: Mama bears or MWF?

I agree with Don, they are different animals. Both are great products. If you like to have different soaps in your rotation, you will probably end up with both.

Both will give you a comfortable shave. I find the MWF has a very creamy lather with a light clean soap smell. The MB soaps lather very well and come in a variety of great scents. The choice of different scents are amazing and she keeps coming out with new ones.

For me, both soaps lather quickly.I find with the MWF, the hotter the water the better.

Both MWF and MB are great soaps.They are different. You really should try to work both of them in to your rotation and decide for yourself which you prefer.

Ive tried the SRD unscented and I think the lather on MB is better. But thats just from my experience and I still think SRD's soap is great.