JCinPA
The Lather Maestro
About a year ago, someone posted he thought it smells like a cleaning product. While YMMV usually holds, I contend his sniffer is defective. Unless he cleans up with Creamsicle frozen confections. It smells exactly like this. Exactly.
It's a summer-only scent for me, like many of the citrusy scents are for many of us, but I'd have to say it is in my top two or three scents in all of shavingdom. It was an early Razorock croap named after our own Ambassador and Rome Correspondent, Marco. You need not like orangey scents, there's no law against not liking it, but it sure isn't a cleaning scent like Goo Gone or other cleaning product. I'm not much of a lime fan, myself, but I was a big fan of Creamsicles as a kid, and this is one of those soaps I have an urge to take a bite out of. My guess is it does not taste anything like a Creamsicle, however, so I restrain myself.
Razorock soaps are terrific performers. I'm disappointed that sometimes we tend to support our favorite choices by denigrating others' favorites. Based on the many posts about Razorock soaps here over the years, it is clearly in the top tier of shave soaps for performance. Top 20% for certain, probably in the top 10%. So while you may find something you like better, of course, if you think this is a lousy shave soap, you don't know how to lather it properly.
Shave this morning was a Modified Marco Method. That is using a medium sized boar brush (it was an old green B&B anniversary brush), soak it thoroughly, then I give it one gentle up down pump to drop some--not much--of the water, then start slowly swirling on the soap in the tub, getting a bit more aggressive as the lather builds. Always about 150-200 swirls, nothing I shave with is expensive enough that I want to be abstemious. Heaven. Dense, slick, protective lather, great shave, great after shave face feel, finished with unscented Thayer's witch hazel and then Cella A/S splash, just to keep it an Italian morning.
If you have not tried this classic, you owe it to yourself to do so, provided you like orangey scents. You won't be disappointed, and it's not too expensive to give it a whirl in your shave den. Current label:
It's a summer-only scent for me, like many of the citrusy scents are for many of us, but I'd have to say it is in my top two or three scents in all of shavingdom. It was an early Razorock croap named after our own Ambassador and Rome Correspondent, Marco. You need not like orangey scents, there's no law against not liking it, but it sure isn't a cleaning scent like Goo Gone or other cleaning product. I'm not much of a lime fan, myself, but I was a big fan of Creamsicles as a kid, and this is one of those soaps I have an urge to take a bite out of. My guess is it does not taste anything like a Creamsicle, however, so I restrain myself.
Razorock soaps are terrific performers. I'm disappointed that sometimes we tend to support our favorite choices by denigrating others' favorites. Based on the many posts about Razorock soaps here over the years, it is clearly in the top tier of shave soaps for performance. Top 20% for certain, probably in the top 10%. So while you may find something you like better, of course, if you think this is a lousy shave soap, you don't know how to lather it properly.
Shave this morning was a Modified Marco Method. That is using a medium sized boar brush (it was an old green B&B anniversary brush), soak it thoroughly, then I give it one gentle up down pump to drop some--not much--of the water, then start slowly swirling on the soap in the tub, getting a bit more aggressive as the lather builds. Always about 150-200 swirls, nothing I shave with is expensive enough that I want to be abstemious. Heaven. Dense, slick, protective lather, great shave, great after shave face feel, finished with unscented Thayer's witch hazel and then Cella A/S splash, just to keep it an Italian morning.
If you have not tried this classic, you owe it to yourself to do so, provided you like orangey scents. You won't be disappointed, and it's not too expensive to give it a whirl in your shave den. Current label:
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