Fall/Winter Soap Transition from Cream

[Perrito-Incognito]

Hello,
I have been using almost exclusively creams and recently was given a Col. Conk bay rum soap (small puck). I put it into a coffee mug and gave it a try. Really liked the slickness, but found the scent pretty much gone.
So, I'm going to purchase a couple of soaps. Thinking TFH and DRH with something in the sandalwood or like scent profile. My TOB cream sandalwood is okay.
DRH has names like Arlington and Marlborough. TFH has a straight-up sandalwood. Are the wooden bowls nice? worth it?
Recommendations? I like using my badger brush from Pens of the Forest. Have a boar if that is necessary.

 

[mekler]

I really enjoy the DRH samples I received from Garry and I would definitely recommend them. My order of preference is Windsor, Arlington, then last but certainly not least Marlborough. The wooden bowls are nice but I already have a few plastic/metal containers that will be holding my pucks when I get around to ordering them.

I've only tried the TFH sandalwood cream so I cant comment on the soap, but the scent of the cream was nice.

I say grab a few samples from Garry's sample shop to see which of them you like best.

 

[djh]

I haven't yet tried the new soap offerings from Truefitt's but D R Harris are amongst my favourite soaps. They are great performers and are available in a good range of scents. Arlington and Lavender would be my choices for the warmer weather and then Windsor and Marlborough for the cooler weather with Almond being suitable all year round.
The wooden bowls are nice, but I don't bother any more. I would rather have an extra puck of soap instead and seeing as I am one of the 3017ers, I simply place whichever soap is in use into a bowl and shave away. If you are going to rotate soaps, the idea of having a bowl for each puck becomes more attractive.
Both of your brushes should do a great job for you on these quality soaps.

 

[njpaddy]

Harris is by far my best soap. About the only complaints I read about are about some pucks having a scent too light or (like my almond) no scent at all. I have also seen comments from members who did not like the Marlborough scent, but mine is a nice light sandalwood-like scent. While the scents vary, performance is the same for all Harris soaps. My first 3 Harris soaps I bought in wooden bowls, then switched over to buying refill pucks and putting them in 1 cup Pyrex bowls. Wooden bowls don't stack well and slide off each other when I open the drawer. The pyrex bowls have a nice tight lid and are designed to stack. I haven't tried TFH soap, but I am enjoying their cream samples and plan to buy a tub of it when the samples are gone. I don't know what the TFH sandalwood soap is like, but their Sandalwood cream was too strong a scent for me. I liked the lighter sandalwood-like scent of the Grafton cream better.

 

[The Kiwi]

Has there been a poll to find out that soap is more popular in cool weather and cream more popular in warm weather? In case you hadn't noticed, where I live, summer is six months long, with winter maybe two months, at best. Spring and fall last maybe two months each here (if that doesn't add up to twelve months, it's because I've only had the one cup of coffee so far).

I intermix all of my various shave products in no special order, and haven't been "back" to using the spectrum of classic / traditional variety for a year yet (in fact, back in the earliest of my classic shaving days, for me, aftershaves were the one category I always had quite a variety of, with much less soap / cream variety back then).

 

[Perrito-Incognito]

Thanks to all who commented. I went with DRH Marlborough and TOB Sandalwood soaps. VERY happy with both. Purchased the Pyrex 1-cup bowl set at Walmart to store them in. Hideous turquoise lids, but functional. I have a Dirtybird bowl on order. Is it advisable to keep soaps covered or can they be exposed to the air when not in use? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but learning about soaps after 9 months of wet shaving w/ creams.

 

[mharris127]

Thanks to all who commented. I went with DRH Marlborough and TOB Sandalwood soaps. VERY happy with both. Purchased the Pyrex 1-cup bowl set at Walmart to store them in. Hideous turquoise lids, but functional. I have a Dirtybird bowl on order. Is it advisable to keep soaps covered or can they be exposed to the air when not in use? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but learning about soaps after 9 months of wet shaving w/ creams.

I don't cover my hard soaps (DRH and TOBS soaps qualify), if they aren't used every day keeping them aired out when not in use is better for the soap anyway. I do cover croaps such as Proraso and Cella, however. Arko is OK uncovered even though it is a bit softer than average (and you really should try it someday, I think it will match DRH in quality of lather even though its scent is quite different for those under age 50).