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Top Secret

I have been using this cream for around a week now.I am still thrilled with each shave with this cream.
What is really great about this cream is the slickness and the cushion but yet I still get a very close shave with no irritation.
The only negative is there is not alot of scent involved but that does not really bother me at all.

Highly recommend.


Paul
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Well, another nice product from Confiança - Portugal.

Price - Being the tube a big one, the price is really nice, under € 5 / $ 6.70 (03.2010). Who does better?!

Quality - There was a time when, in Portugal, just 2 factories made shave-creams: Ach.Brito (now Claus again) with Musgo and (the regreted) Lavanda, and Confiança, with this TS (for friends) and Veleiro, both still in production, not to mention O Melhor. Once competitors for the same market (homemarket and former colonies) recently Claus bought and incorporated Confiança. The fusion upgrade the quality, it seems to me.

Scent - Floral and wood, a perfect combination.As a personal taste i prefer Veleiro scent, but it's just me.

Latherability - a small quantity goes a long way. Just an hazelnut size of it and a thick lather pops up everywhere, please add water, if needed.

Efficacy - as a hot knife in butter, the blade with this lather glides...

Moisturizing Properties - Lanolin is here definitively...Perfect!!

Packaging - the old way, big cap, big metal tube and that beautiful old, naif retro design cardbox with an outdated lettering what makes all that charm and glamour... A must!! :thumbup1:


Being Confiança/Claus at Hollywood and Beverly Hills houses no need to say more...Oprah ruined all the fun spreading around such a well kept secret!! It was, once, a Top Secret and for your eyes only...not anymore!! :lol:

Now it's time for us, as regular and Classical wetshavers, to have a tube or two in our rotation...Nothing can go wrong with it!!
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I haven't reviewed this cream yet, but now that it's available to the world, I must share my opinion. You can see my first impressions in this post.

Price: One thing is certain, the tube is huge and the cream lasts a loooong time, so the price is quite fair.

Quality: Confiança had an excellent reputation all by itself, even before being acquired by Claus Porto. This is what I consider the "working man's shaving cream", but the quality is vastly superior to anything that is sold in the supermarket.

Scent: A very nice Rose scent, with other notes in the mix that I cannot identify. One of my favorite scents, and it has some staying power.

Latherability: A bit tricky, all you need to know is to use less cream and more water.

Efficacy: Close and comfortable shaves, every time.

Moisturizing Properties: Very moisturizing. Must be the Lanolin?

Packaging: A thick tube, with a huge cap and nozzle. Very robust and manly.

This is a very good cream, and that scores a few extra points for being produced in my home town :thumbup:.
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Price: Top Secret is quite affordable, costing about 5€, which is a nice price for a cream with this quality.


Quality: Don't be deceived by the package or the name, we are facing an high quality product, produced by a company with over a century worth of knowledge.


Scent: It's very hard to describe the scent. In my opinion it seems like a mix of roses, musk and some kind of wood. The scent is really something.


Efficacy: A small portion creates a high quality lather, you don't need to add water. I use only a wet brush to create the lather.


Moisturizing properties: As it contains lanolin (extracted from wool) it smooths your skin, and creates less drag to your blade. I think this cream uses a generous amount of lanolin, which is quite good for the skin.


Packaging: Top Secret is sold in a metal tube that comes inside a box. One side of the box is in English, the other one in Portuguese. It may look like a low grade product, but don't be fooled by the package's look. The ingredients are not listed in the box or tube, maybe they want to keep it secret :biggrin1:


What could we expect from a company which produces soaps used by Oprah Winfrey, Kate Moss or Naomi Campbell ? You won't regret trying this one, as I did not. It's the same company which produces "Veleiro" already reviewed.
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