Thread: The "must try" soap?

Originally Posted by PMH

I know of Tabac etc but none are easily found in Sweden, unless you live in one of the big cities. I have the Palmolive soap not cream but the scent doesn't really do it for me.
I'm thinking of ordering the MWF together with ToOBS sandalwood AS. Just need to pitch the idea to the old lady.

Make a list of the shave soaps you can find in Sweden... Some here might help you to decide on
a short list to try first. I picked up the Palmolive recently and it shaves very well.

Rinse well when done shaving and apply one drop of cologne about 20 min after
shaving if you are underwhelmed by the fragrance of Palmolive.

My choice is Kent Menthol, never tried anything better.

I have two mama bear soaps and love them both!

In my opinion, if you can only buy one, MWF or Tabac is a proven performer.

If you're only buying one, and you want to go with a bang, try the Candre or look up Domenico Caraceni. Very expensive, but absolutely amazing.

If you buy them one-at-a-time and carefully hide them, go with everything suggested in this thread. You'd be amazed how many soaps you can hide by using identical soap dishes and only ever having one on the bathroom counter!

Gentlemen:

What a fabulous selection of soaps you have offered: Mitchell's Wool Fat, Tabac, Cella and scores of others. I have tried many of them and must concur with your assessment of their quality.

I am especially fond of French soaps, such as Provence Sante Verlaine, Institute Karite and L'Occitane Cade.

If choosing one particular soap over all the others, however, I would have to wink at another French lovely: Martin de Candre.

Regards,

Obie

There is no shaving cream or shaving soap No.1 in the world. It is very personal choice. But! There is a wonderful selection of soaps named. I think one should try from this selection as much as possible. It is especially important for those, who joined straight razor shaving recently. It's an opportunity for them to chose their own soap or cream.

Well, like Bill and lot´s of others here - Martin de Candre, hands down, if I had to only use soap for the rest of my life it would be MdC. But it´s picey. Lots of good soaps out there though. Since we live in Sweden/Europe, you can PM me and maybe I can help you to find a soap that fits your budget and needs (if I can). My top 5: MdC, Nannys (British soap maker), Provence Sante, Henks (Dutch soap maker) and Cella.

So I finally ordered a new soap today together with an After Shave gel.
I decided to go with Mama Bears Lavender and Mint Glycerin Shaving Soap together with Taylor of Old Bond St. Sandalwood Luxury After Shave Gel.
I just hope I will be happy with it.

Gentlemen:

What a fabulous selection of soaps you have offered: Mitchell's Wool Fat, Tabac, Cella and scores of others. I have tried many of them and must concur with your assessment of their quality.

I am especially fond of French soaps, such as Provence Sante Verlaine, Institute Karite and L'Occitane Cade.

If choosing one particular soap over all the others, however, I would have to wink at another French lovely: Martin de Candre.

Regards,

Obie

I had never heard of Martin de Candre soap, I will definitely give it a try, bit pricey though and I've never heard of Nanny's either, currently I'm trying out so many soaps and have loved all of them, I'm waiting for Tuesday so I can go collect my Tabac soap (my little sister didn't get to the door quick enough, doh!)

I'm dying to try the Mama Bears soap as well, ah, so many choices...

almost forgot: if you can't find MWF cheap, try connaught shaving, it seems to be the cheapest and ships W.Wide. just checked, it would be £7.54 to Sweden (8.50 euros) for a 125g refill puck

DAMN!!!

I was looking for that homepage because I knew I have seen both ToOBS after shave gel and MWF soap there but couldn't find it when I searched today.
Oh well, Mama Bears soaps seems highly recommended so I hope I will enjoy it. Next time I will go for MWF.