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If I had to use only one shaving soap from now on, I would use......

All these fantastic-scented, cleverly named soaps and creams. The variety and choices are dizzingly diverse, as they should be. Sure they perform just fine - but on more than one level: They're slick, they smell nice and they cost a bundle. They're sending artisan soap makers' children to college, buying their spoiled daughters the brand new Beemer, maybe upgrading the boat. That's all what entrepreneurial enterprises, free market and freedom of choice is all about.

Nevertheless, I'm a believer in premium quality and performance on the ¢heap which is a function of DIY. And thet Beemer - if I'm to pay for it, it's gonna be in my driveway ... well it IS in my driveway. Anyone with a JCW Mini Cooper
is already aware that it has a plethora of pricey key BMW branded parts in it that make the little car go.

Sure, I have Several Stirling Soaps and ToBS on shelf and I love them all. I also have a puck of Taconic Excalibur - it has an image of the legendary sword on the label, is a transparent golden puck, and comes in a rugged steel tin. I'm a great fan of Shannon's Soaps. As a chemist, she excels in making a good variety of superior balance of slick, smooth and easy to lather soaps. There's Palmolive and Lea sticks, and Williams - one of my first soaps (from remnants of the puck stuck to the bottom of an Old Spice Mug left me when Grandpa passed in the 60's).

If I could choose only one to spend the rest of my shave-life with, any one would be more than sufficient to provide a shave to meet my high expectations.

Decades ago, a Cuban friend somehow got his childhood sweetheart out of Cuba. On a trip to the supermarket she commented on the endless variety of brands and types of soaps, shampoos, deodorants, toothpaste, toilet paper and other items: "Why so many? In Cuba we only have one choice." Reliving a nightmare where the Communist/Socialists attain the keys to the Whitehouse and the economy, and we are reduced to having limited choices, I'd hope to see Cremo and Neutrogena for Sensitive skin remaining on shelf at the local Targetski. It's the blend I compare all my other soaps & creams to - most meet its' performance, but none are any better. And both are Capitalist-crushingly ¢heap. The blend lathers and is exceedingly slick, just as some of the even $pendy artisan soaps wish they were.

I love Cremo and used it exclusively for about 5 years before i got back into the fancier stuff just recently. How do you blend the Cremo and Neutrogena? I'd like to try it.
 
If I could only use one, I would quit shaving, same for razors, blades, creams, and brushes.
Ha! Personally, I might not go that far, but I admire the sentiment nonetheless.

And - with no offense intended to the OP - but if I could only respond to one thread, it would not be this one. Granted, there is nothing wrong with asking hard questions and using some imagination, but I’d sooner pick one angel to dance on the head of a pin.
 
I use a Ogalla lemon and peppercorn.
This soap for some reason has started burning my face. It makes me look like I spent all day in the sun and got sunburned. Which is a shame because a really like the way it lathers and smells. So I now have a pucki can’t use. I would be willing to send it someone if they would like to try it. I hate to through it out and see it go to waste
 
I love Cremo and used it exclusively for about 5 years before i got back into the fancier stuff just recently. How do you blend the Cremo and Neutrogena? I'd like to try it.
I blend it with a stick. Seriously, it's just equal parts of each put into a bowl and lathered as you would any cream. I finally squirted equal parts into a small jar & stirred to blend with a wooden coffee stirrer (skinny popsicle stick) and graduated to a little plastic sample spoon (around 1/4 tsp size) that Krogers had in their deli section over by the bulk olives & marinated mushrooms & stuff. I put a dab into the bowl or onto the end of a well wrung out, lightly damp brush, then add distilled water from a squirt tip water bottle a few drops at a time until it fluffs up into a stiff, merangue-y lather. My favorite brush for Cremogena is just a cheap Chinese E-Bay19mm synthetic with a plain ash handle. It takes more effort & attention when using a Badger or a larger size knot.
 
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Stirling Sheep. It's so naturally luxurious. So easy to lather with any brush. Aftershaves or other post-shave items can supply the scent. I have not tried MWF fwiw.
 
Stirling Sheep. It's so naturally luxurious. So easy to lather with any brush. Aftershaves or other post-shave items can supply the scent. I have not tried MWF fwiw.
I got the sample pucks of the Electric Sheep, Cherry & Barbershop. All are excellent. The cherry should be avoided if hungry, since the scent is intoxicatingly intense. It seems to be the same formula as the Sheep. The Barbershop is maybe a little different formula (brown in color) but is also worth having.
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I got the last 3 containers for the sample pucks at a Dollar Store - if they would have had more, I would have bought them all.
 
Mike's Natural Soaps, an easy decision. Of all the soaps in my den and all the soaps I've used over the years nothing makes my face as happy as Mike's.

If I had to choose just one of his soaps I would go with Hungarian Lavender, I just love that scent!
 

musicman1951

three-tu-tu, three-tu-tu
For the past year I've only been using two (gasp!!!), and if I had to go down to one it would definitely be MdC.
 
Mike's Natural Soaps, an easy decision. Of all the soaps in my den and all the soaps I've used over the years nothing makes my face as happy as Mike's.

If I had to choose just one of his soaps I would go with Hungarian Lavender, I just love that scent!
Mikes is awesome. Will have to try the Lavendar once my Barbershop (and self imposed buying ban) runs out.
 
I got the sample pucks of the Electric Sheep, Cherry & Barbershop. All are excellent. The cherry should be avoided if hungry, since the scent is intoxicatingly intense. It seems to be the same formula as the Sheep. The Barbershop is maybe a little different formula (brown in color) but is also worth having.
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I got the last 3 containers for the sample pucks at a Dollar Store - if they would have had more, I would have bought them all.

Big Lots - 3/$1.80.
 
I wish you the best with that Gary. But let's face it, we're living in 1984 now. I come to B&B (and the BOSC Asylum) to escape it.


Ain't that the truth!


(Sorry not trying to derail the thread)

As for 1 soap I think it would become boring after a while and would loose the excitement that Wet Shaving affords.
 
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