Cyril R. Salter Indian Sandalwood

I love the smell of this stuff and it makes a wonderfully rich lather that lasts for more than 4 passes if needed! Price is on par with TOBS and works great! Give it a try

Phil from Bullgoose Shaving graciously included a sample of this cream with an order I placed. This is my first Sandalwood Cream.

Price: This comes in a 6.76 ounce container. TOBS comes in a 5.3 ounce container. This costs 18.00 per tub, TOBS costs 13.50 per tub. Doing the math, this costs $2.66 per ounce, and TOBS costs $2.56 per ounce. So there is a ten cent difference between the two, that being considered, this is an excellent value.

Quality: Top notch, performs at least equal to TOBS.

Scent: Spicy Cinnamon. Being my first Sandalwood Cream, I don't know if this is how all Sandalwood smell, or not. At first shave, I was not hugely impressed by the scent. I found it a bit overpowering at first. Still, Salter is too good to waste, so used up the rest of the sample, for a total of 5 shaves. The scent has since grown on me, but having tried other Salter scents, I can't say this is my favorite.

Lather: This erupted into wonderful creamy moisturizing lather, with very minimal effort. Lather easily lasted through my 3 pass shave, with no degradation of overall quality.

Packaging: Sold in a 200 ml/ 6.76 ounce container with a double snap lid.

Overall: This is top notch shaving cream, with a quality that is hard to beat. The price is also right; on par with the price of TOBS. If Sandalwood is your favorite scent, no reason not to give this cream a whirl!! Performance wise, this cream is great!

I really like this Salter cream. For about $19-20 you get a great deal. The cream builds a lather quickly with only the smallest amount on the tips of your brush(I have very hard alkaline water). It is slick and I don't feel the razor dragging on my face, nor is it drying or irritating. I like the scent, but it smells more like cinnamon at first with the sandlewood more muted, but still very present. It is a dry spicy scent, not sweet at all, but also unlike any sandlewood I have ever tried. I really like it though, and will likely get more if I ever get through this tub.