Thread: What Cream Should I Buy Next?

I'll also look up the Castle Forbes and other one, Acca Kappa...Thanks everyone for the suggestions...

Guys, at the risk of being annoying, where do you get your creams from? I've looked up all of these on the sites I normally use (those that ship to Australia) and can only find a couple of them. I normally frequent Italian Barber.com, menzbiz.com.au, vintagescent.com, straightrazordesigns and classicshaving.com.

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As for scent and your job, it doesn't really matter as the scent is gone as soon as you rinse. Unless you buy a cologne or edt in the same scent.

Personally I love Penhaligons Endymion shaving cream, great performance and a truly luxurious scent, so much I bought the cologne as well.

Hi Blix, thanks for the links. Yeah, I know most scents go pretty quickly, but some just GO with either the 'office' or mowing lawns, etc. I like Speick for Saturdays and T&H Trafalgar for Mon-Fri generally... :-)

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Yeah? Serous? I used to use that before I 'saw the light' and changed from a Bic to a straight. I've always used cream (in a tube) not a can. Palmolive is rather 'mundane' for me...

was that the brush lather stuff or the brushless lather stuff?

Originally Posted by tekbow

was that the brush lather stuff or the brushless lather stuff?

Sorry for the late reply (is it just me, or was the site down? I couldn't get on at home or work even!). It was the brushless stuff maybe, in a tube, Palmolive classic or whatever. I guess I just like (good) creams and soaps from far-flung interesting sounding places. Not even sure where Palmolive is made. It's probably very good. I guess the Germans see Speick as quite ordinary and the Portugese may see Musgo Real as run-of-the-mill too.

On the Palmolive cream, that gets the big thumbs up from me. Because it dosent have a strong scent i tend use it to make uber lather with other "finer" scented soaps. I just bought some Crabtree & Evelyn - Nomad. If you want a soap that gives off a strong scent then this is a good option. When you stick your nose in to the bowl at first its quite overpowering but once mixed up into a lather (or combined with palmolive) its devine. Very nicely complimented when followed up with the Nomad after shave balm too. There is a guy based in England who posts stuff down under, google "The Invisible Edge" The price you see is the price you pay, he's very reasonable and he stocks a great selection of razors, soaps, strops and all other cool shave stuff. The dude is on holiday just now but he will return on Monday 19th. If you drop him an email he always gets back to you with helpful info. I have bought stuff off him a few times, highly recomended. I love the adventure of finding new soaps... its great. Happy soap hunting mate.

You're right John, the Nomad soap is quite strong - first sniff in the bowl reminded me of the guys changing room after PE! The aftershave on the other hand smells great!!!

I'm still loving the Arran Aromatics stuff, the cologne splash smells so good it should be illegal!

Carl, if there are any creams/soaps from the UK that you are struggling to get 'Down Under' just let me know; I'd be happy to place an order on your behlaf and possibly save you on some excessive shipping fees.

Originally Posted by JohnBrown81

On the Palmolive cream, that gets the big thumbs up from me. Because it doesn't have a strong scent i tend use it to make uber lather with other "finer" scented soaps. I just bought some Crabtree & Evelyn - Nomad. If you want a soap that gives off a strong scent then this is a good option. When you stick your nose in to the bowl at first its quite overpowering but once mixed up into a lather (or combined with palmolive) its devine. Very nicely complimented when followed up with the Nomad after shave balm too. There is a guy based in England who posts stuff down under, google "The Invisible Edge" The price you see is the price you pay, he's very reasonable and he stocks a great selection of razors, soaps, strops and all other cool shave stuff. The dude is on holiday just now but he will return on Monday 19th. If you drop him an email he always gets back to you with helpful info. I have bought stuff off him a few times, highly recomended. I love the adventure of finding new soaps... its great. Happy soap hunting mate.

Thanks for this, and + 50 billion on the Nomad, I love it! I'll look up The Invisible Edge. I'm finding new sites (and thanks to all who posted some). I'm finding I need to go to a lot of sites to get a range of stuff. Also, it appears to me that the Euro is pretty weak against the AU Dollar at the moment! It was only a few years ago the AU bought only 70 US and I think it was almost 1/2 a EU. In fact, I've found I can get Dovo strops from Spain I think it is for about a third of what I can buy them here in a shop, so even with postage it's worth it. No wonder the 'brick and mortar' stores are worried!

Ah you had the brushless, this makes a big difference, and i see what your saying about wanting a posh cream. I have any number of posh creams and soaps and the palmolive is my go to most days, performs equally well as i said. the beauty of it is you can still buy your posh cream and get the palmolive as its dirt cheap it also as said makes an excellent uber, i uber'd it last night with the penhaligons fern soap, and the scents complimented each other extremely well, in addition to making the most sumptious uber i've ever had