I finally got my hands on some Cella shave soap. As most reading this would know, it sort of occupies the land of both cream and soap, though it was sold to me as shaving soap.
Anyways, the fragrance is great, a nice light almond, like shaving with marzipan.....
I went to work on it with a Simpson's Chubby 1. I like to face lather, and I found this soap to be outstanding in that regard; a few goodly strokes of the bursh in the jar of soap to load the brush, then a really nice lather, finished with the thickest part of the lather on the chin.
Using a Muhle R106 loaded with a new Gillette 7 o'clock, I got as close a shave as I've ever had, with two day's growth. Followed this up with Stone Bay Men's aftershave balm (thick vitamin E cream with extracts of eucalyptus, birch, cherry bark) for a really nice end result, topped off with a few spritzes of Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet.
Face is still tingling nicely.
That Cella is great stuff!
Chris
Anyways, the fragrance is great, a nice light almond, like shaving with marzipan.....
I went to work on it with a Simpson's Chubby 1. I like to face lather, and I found this soap to be outstanding in that regard; a few goodly strokes of the bursh in the jar of soap to load the brush, then a really nice lather, finished with the thickest part of the lather on the chin.
Using a Muhle R106 loaded with a new Gillette 7 o'clock, I got as close a shave as I've ever had, with two day's growth. Followed this up with Stone Bay Men's aftershave balm (thick vitamin E cream with extracts of eucalyptus, birch, cherry bark) for a really nice end result, topped off with a few spritzes of Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet.
Face is still tingling nicely.
That Cella is great stuff!
Chris
