Thread: why soap or cream

Leave it to Kramer.....I just knew it !!

Originally Posted by dbriz

I am new the the forum . Why use shaving soap or shaving cream?I saw on you tube a guy mixed both why? thank you

The personal taste first, when a person arrives to wetshaving the 1st benefit is the ability to customize the shave, you can choose a lot of creams or soaps or aftershaves or razors or brushes....In this way you can use soap or cream or both, it's up to you.

The answer is different among the people, it's like asking people about their preferences for drinking...beer, wine, water, cola, gin-tonic ....

Lynn was smart founding straightrazorplace.com, if he had started with shavingsoapandcreamplace.com he should had a lot of problems, I guess

Beef fat.. or Tallow is more commonly found in soaps and it gives a luxurious cushion, feel, shave and overall wonderful experience. Try Tabac, MWF, Palmolive stick or Cella. Maybe I am biased but if I am given a puck full of beef fat and a boar brush I am in almost shave related orgasmic bliss
I wish you great shaves.

Hey MykelDR, maybe your last post is for the "Castle Forbes" reformulation thread?

: I'd love to see someone release a human fat-based shaving soap with the scent of human sweat. Can't you just see it now?



Okay, back to the soap vs cream original topic:

I find that, so far (12 shaves into this obsession) that I prefer a cream during the week because there's less muss & fuss. On a weekend shave, where I'm slowing down more and really enjoying the whole process, then I'll generally grab a soap. I'm not good enough with all this yet to discern differences in cushion or lubrication -- as long as I get a decent lather and a pleasant scent, then I'm good to go.

Originally Posted by LAsoxfan

And as for canned gels/foams, stay the Hell away from them. They may work for a cartridge razor (and that's even questionable), but won't provide you with what you need for a good SR shave.

I'm not posting this little anecdote to try and deliberately irritate anyone.....

I had to travel from Lancashire to London the other week in a bit of a hurry, and forgot to pack any shaving tackle at all.
(Normally Dovo 986810 or FatBoy de + Droyt's Glycerin Soap or Palmolive stick+glycerin)
So I bought a 5-pack of twin-blade disposables in the hotel pharmacy, but all they had, no surprise, were tins of foam or gel.
I haven't bought either for about ten years. Now foam it seems can only be lightly smoothed on -- if I try to work it into the beard it just disappears. I find it to be utterly useless. Gels not much better but when worked in, they rip then break up.
Anyway, I picked a white tin with smart black lettering - and more importantly marked 50% off! - called King Of Shaves "Azor" and sloped off for the night.
Next morning, expecting the worst, I lathered up. And lathered. And lathered.
Thick, thick cushion, that I could work in with three fingers of each hand, could add hot water to, and it stayed extremely creamy -- no ripping at all. That was all from a squirt about the size of a fava bean.
Well, it's not been discarded in the hotel bathroom, it's come home with me.

Now, as quoted above, it's not really suitable for a straight razor at all, well not with me, because its too cushiony, I really need to keep a very accurate idea of exactly where that edge is, not guess it's somewhere underneath! So I can't gallop back to the Droyt's quick enough. However, with the FatBoy, it's proved to be a real marriage.