Thread: What is your favorite inexpensive soap/cream?

It's that time of year again where many of us have spent entirely too much money on gifts for the people in our lives. In the spirit of saving, I thought that I would start a thread about some of the great inexpensive shaving soaps and creams out there. Lately I have been going back and trying some of these soaps and creams myself and found that many of them perform just as well as some of the more expensive products. Here are some of my favorites so far:

1. Arko shave stick-Has a nice clean scent. Tallow based and easily gives rich thick lather no matter how hard your water is.
2. Palmolive shave stick-I get the same results as the Arko stick with this one, but with a different scent.
3. Any of the Prorasso/Omega/Bigelow products-Bar none the best menthol soaps/creams out there
4. Godrej-You would think that a cream that costs around $5 wouldn't be that great. Godrej is flat out one of the better products out there. Makes great lather, has a classic barbershop scent and has lanolin which makes your skin nice and smooth .

I know that others will have different opinions, so what are your favorite inexpensive soaps/creams?

I've found you cant go wrong with Proraso. I just got a tube of Tabac and really enjoy the smell.

This is one of the great aspects of this hobby, you really don't need to spend a lot of money to get nice stuff, although many of us do.....

Here's my "cheap favorites":

- Valobra stick
- Palmolive stick
- Mon Savon
- Cella

All of these produces a very nice and slick lather and are IMHO some of the best regardless of price.

Mine would have to be Razorock, any flavour.

Tabac and Valobra are high on my list of soaps to try.

Here's my tops cheapies:

1) Palmolive shave stick - for the glide
2) Arko - good glide, but this one's for the smell. I love the clean scent.
3) Proraso Green - easy lather for a quick pinch

C.O. Bigelow / Proraso Green. So tolerant to variations in the cream to water ratio, and makes a very nice lather to boot.

Godrej Menthol Mist is one of my consistent favorites regardless of price. I like it as much as my much more expensive creams (T&H, Castle Forbes, etc.)

I was going to say Proraso, but the last time I checked it really wasn't that cheap when compared to Williams, Arko, VDH, etc. Still, it's good stuff and definitely cheaper than Domenico Caraceni lol

I like ogallala, sandelwood.