It didn't work as well with my tallow MWF. A layer of a gelatin like substance formed that had to be peeled off as it was acting as a barrier between the puck and water. I don't know if losing that substance affected the performance, but once that was gone it did absorb and expand, but much more slowly as it didn't propagate through the soap as well.I may try it with my next puch of MWF Tallow.
specifically, a rabbit hole that compares all of the creams you ask about
I know two people now that are claiming that A&E's new cream has retired all other creams in their rotation, though I haven't tried it yet myself, it's absolutely on the list, being as it's so affordable.Working through a tub of Salter myself and it seems like a wonderful cream. A&E has a new line of creams available at Maggards or their club if interested, have a tub or two of their stuff on the way.
Well, I opened my drawer of creams. As it turns out, TOBS has several with a more "robust" scent such as Grapefruit, OUD and Tobacco Leaf and even Mr Taylors. Eaton College, Shave Shop, not so much.Interesting, I just picked up some TOBS sandalwood and it's one of the stronger scented items I own, though I quite enjoy the robust scent...but then, some of my soaps are so old that, perhaps, they've just faded and are, therefore, juxtaposed.
That's a good thing, I think. I love bold scents. I'm also very interested in A&E's cream.Well, I opened my drawer of creams. As it turns out, TOBS has several with a more "robust" scent such as Grapefruit, OUD and Tobacco Leaf and even Mr Taylors. Eaton College, Shave Shop, not so much.
I find T&H 1805 to be very mild with Trafalgar and Grafton having more scent. Trumper's Rose, Eucris and Lime are somewhat stronger scent wise than GFT (my favorite )
Thus, I hereby amend, sir, my previous statement to now say that several of the British creams have lighter scents.
I love the scents of all of my creams.
Skip-able Preface: I'm a soap junkie who has used the huge majority of the soaps mentioned on the forums and have gotten pretty good at identifying the soaps that are high quality but haven't quite pushed into the realm of diminishing returns. For example, Stirling is a high quality soap at a fair price. While most will agree that Kairos or k2E are slightly better soaps they are also much more expensive due to aforementioned diminishing returns. Well, I've recently had a random desire to experiment with some soft creams and would like your help with identifying creams that occupy that price to performance sweet spot, per se, similar to Stirling, as I lack the first hand experience I can rely on with soaps. SOFT CREAMS ONLY, please.
tl;dr:
If Palmolive and Speick are the cream equivalents to Arko
and SMN and ADP are the cream equivalents to Omnibus,
what then, in your opinion, is the soft cream equivalent to Stirling?
Thanks in advance, and forgive the imperfect analogy.
Either of the Jack Black products are best in class by a wide margin.Palmolive, Speick, TOBS and Proraso Blue arrived and they'll begin my initial exploration of change. If I get in with these I'll want to try a few others. Jack Black, LEA, Lavanda, Ingram, Baum.be will be my next likely purchases assuming i like these water testers.
Supreme Cream is definitely one I'm going to try soon as many sing its praises. Although more people seem to prefer baum.be (or however it's spelled) in terms of sheer performance, so there appears to be some disagreement on the matter...but then, some prefer Proraso to pretty much anything, which I always found bewildering, so I'll simply have to give them all a go. I'll likely post an assessment of which ones I personally found to perform the best after thoroughly trying them all...which, of course, will take monthsEither of the Jack Black products are best in class by a wide margin.