That's great. What a relief, i love her gentleman's lavender.
It's a good inexpensive Italian hard soap and a great value at $12.00 for a 150g's. It is a bit tricky to load enough for three passes. It is however slick and protective with delicious scents. I've never gotten a bad shave from it. How does it compare to the King of Italian shaving soaps Saponificio Varesino? It doesn't compare it's not even close. Long live the King!Speaking of inexpensive soaps...
I also wonder how Rave @Raven Koenes compares this soap to his SV.
Happy shaves,
Jim
It's a good inexpensive Italian hard soap and a great value at $12.00 for a 150g's. It is a bit tricky to load enough for three passes. It is however slick and protective with delicious scents. I've never gotten a bad shave from it. How does it compare to the King of Italian shaving soaps Saponificio Varesino? It doesn't compare it's not even close. Long live the King!
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I wonder if there is any agreement on some of the best inexpensive shaving soaps?
Seems to me an inexpensive soap should be $15 or less for a full sized puck not including shipping. Of course, if the shipping is very high and the soap can't be obtained without paying very high shipping even a cheap soap would be expensive, so a soap like that shouldn't count as inexpensive.
Many soaps can be combined with other essential items (another brush, an aftershave, a new razor handle, and a hundred blades) to get free shipping. Still, my idea here is to find and discuss soaps which are outright inexpensive.
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I'll start with one I like which is inexpensive. In my view of them, which is very limited, the Fine shaving soaps are excellent performers. Whenever I use Fine L'Orange I am amazed at how nicely it lathers, how good the residual glide is, etc. The scent is very pleasant but perhaps on the subtle side.
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Here's a link for the soap.
I grated my puck and put it into a nice aluminum screw topped tin. I bought several of these tins on eBay for a good price.
Any other contenders for good inexpensive shaving soaps?
Happy shaves,
Jim
Stirling, Cella (tub), Haslinger. Those would be my top under $15.
My personal favorite, Sudsy Soapery, is $15.69 for a tub so doesn't exactly qualify but it's close.
A price cutoff is certainly easier than the "best value" shaving soap. I would put all of those same soaps in the best value category too, but Cella in a kilo is the best value of them when bought in the brick. About $0.03 per gram. That approaches Arko and Williams territory on a per gram basis if bought in bulk. But it doesn't fit the under $15 rule. But my best performance per dollar spent for what you get in a soap is Cella.
I didn't think we were allowed to link outside of badger and blade?
I didn't realize that by vendors they meant just vendors on Badger and Blade.
I didn't realize that by vendors they meant just vendors on Badger and Blade.