Hi everyone! I prefer the cream filling for the reason of not having to wait to hydrate a puck.
Why do you like either or?
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Hi everyone! I prefer the cream filling for the reason of not having to wait to hydrate a puck.
Why do you like either or?
Go up to the bar above your original post, and add a poll for us. You should be able to design it.
FWIW, I'm soap,....all the way. I like creams for travelling, but at home...dish after dish after dish. Man I love the soaps!
Thanks a million maxi ;) Poll above^
Too many great smelling soaps out there. Love the variety.
I voted puck, and I use soap 10 to 1 versus cream, but I do like cream. Actually, even when I use cream it is in combination with soap so ..... I guess I'm a soap guy. :hmmm:
I use both soap and cream regularly, sometimes both together.
But choose only one, you must..Quote:
Originally Posted by Theseus
:hmmm: I guess if I have to choose, I'd choose soap. Not because I like it better than cream, but because a puck of soap lasts longer than a tube of cream.Quote:
Originally Posted by klingenmeister
Can't see the poll from my phone on tapatalk. But I prefer cream. I must have some hard water or bad technique because I can never get a creamy lather from soap. It's always too dry or watery. And when it's kinda creamy it's still thin and not so "creamy"
Have you tried letting some water stand on the puck while the brush is soaking in the lather bowl ? Giving that a few minutes, or more, and then pouring a bit of the water off the puck into the lather bowl (which I had emptied) improved my lathering quite a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knowledgeispower
I voted Muck, as I have used it more than Puck. However I don't mind either. I just haven't had much opportunity to use the pucks as muck is easier to find in the shops :).
Mick
I'd say soaps by default setting as thats all I used for years but the past couple years I've really come round to creams as well. Certain creams you can't get in pucks and vice versa so I'm into both now, best of both worlds that way!
Have not tried that yet! Will give it a go and see if it helps. ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
Usually a puck...but just got my new Caslte Forbes cream - and it was heaven. I'm torn!
I use both equally. One week for a soap and then one week for a cream, it's the best of both worlds.
It is hard to choose, since I use both regulary, but if I had too, I think I prefer shave cream over soap.
Not sure which to pick...lately I seem to venture more towards the creams but still like the pucks too. Guess it depends on the day and mood so I'm gonna vote undecided :shrug:
I love a good cream over soap
What's the reason Swim?Quote:
Originally Posted by swimlikehell
Soap, soap and then soap.
I just splash a little water on top the puck before I do anything else (splash water on face, pull out my scuttle, fill it up w warm water, perhaps soak brush for a minute, splash more water on face) Only needs a minute to make it easy to load the brush.
That said, I do use cream every once in a blue moon, just for laughs :D
Cream filling? That's what you find in an eau claire (sp?), not a lathering bowl! Hydrate a puck? That's weird.. the only puck I've actually applied a literal interpretation of "hydrate a puck" to is j.b. williams mug soap. despite it's long-held slogan of a "famous for its long-lasting lather", due to its many degraded reformulations it's really "Infamous for it's crappy lather!" I immersed it in water once, in an air-tight screw top lid container overnight, then refreshed it a few times with a little water (not immersed) and kept it sealed after use with residual water and gooey goodness on the surface of the puck. All soaps I keep either sealed with whatever moisture they may accrue from use or allowed to air dry for the day (if I didn't bother to close them).Quote:
Originally Posted by klingenmeister
Creams are better for sharing with others (even the softer vegetable oil soaps (glycerin soaps) needed to be melted and in a container that allows for brush loading).
Pucks win hand down for practicality because with less water they are less microbe-friendly and need less preservatives (though parabens are great as skin cell endocrine disruptors if you have a tough beard). They are a heck of a lot more bang for the buck, too. Less microbes and chemical preservatives that go with that problem, more economical/lasts longer. And let's face it: if you're a real man you won't have a problem with simply loading a brush from a puck of soap, especially if you have enough of a mind to use a str8 or DE. Besides, most of us seem to have some wait time moistening the whiskers which we can do while cleaning off the protective oil on the blade and stropping. Splash on some water and/or gentle hand soap, load up brush and develop the shaving lather gives us a head start on the softening prep game.
Gentlemen,
I voted for soap, because soap is what I mostly use. Not that soap is better than cream. No, of course not. There are some exquisite creams out there. Soaps, rather, represent to me more of a tradition, of the way things were, and wet shaving is quilted in tradition. The weekends are reserved for cream and a sweet silver tip badger brush. I have concluded that the shave den is a neighborhood in paradise, whether I use soap or cream.
I'm not discounting soap, but at this point in my early SR shaving career, it already takes long enough to shave - I may move back to soap once I can shave in less than 30 minutes. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by AxelH
You can't tell me that the TOBS cream doesn't looking like twinkie filling ;)
Wow I never really thought about this until I saw this post, I prefer the puck for the variety you can choose from, However I did pick a really nice muck from the Art of Shaving in LasVegas.
Yeah, those whipped creams really look like.. well.. whipped cream! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by klingenmeister
I almost always UBER.. not always but usually. I love trying to combine and make something different.
Paul