Fav Artisan Soap Maker?

[Drseid]

Some new, some not…

Ethos - Colonia and Dragonsbeard
Tallow + Steel - West Indies and Sicily
Stirling - Glastonbury and Varen
Saponificio Varesino - Manna di Sicilia and Colonia (released by Asylum Shaveworks)
PannaCrema - Nuavia Blu and Nuavia Vert

 

[facetime]

Mystic Waters/Mystic4Men’s unscented. Since I started wet shaving a few months ago I have been using it and really like everything about it.

Bonus: Michelle, the Soap Maker, will be at Greenbelt Farmers Market (Greenbelt, Maryland, a suburb of DC) tomorrow and every other Sunday for the season, so hopefully I will meet her!

Mystic Water Soap

Mystic Water Soap ~ Artisan soaps & body care products

www.mysticwatersoap.com

+1 on the Market meetup; Michele is nice lady with great stuff and always has bunch of goodies at the Farmers’ Markets. My wife liked a bunch of her other soap and skin care stuff too that we found visiting her at the market.

 

[tyoung]

Stirling is absolute king in my den, but some of the others that don't get much Insta-cred are Mikes, Shannons and Chiseled Face. Shannons especially is criminally underrated with all the cool kids!

 

[Dtwitch19]

Stirling

 

[guitarslinger]

Southern witchcrafts
Barrister and Mann
Noble otter

 

[phelix]

Of the artisans soaps I've purchased :
Murphy and McNeil Aon by a pretty wide margin
Noble Otter
B&M
Stirling

 

[Whisky]

Stirling- they have a LOT of scents to
choose from and sell very generous samples.
Barrister & Mann- they have some new soap bases that I haven’t tried but they’re older stuff is great and the new bases get great reviews.
Mikes Natural- Orange Cedarwood and Blackpepper
I also like Uncle Jon’s out of Maryland. His Pipesmoke scent reminds me of summer evenings with my grandfather smoking his pipe on the back porch. It’s a very cherry/vanilla cavendish type scent.

 

[JCarr]

Black Ship Grooming:
Captain Scurvy (Sandalwood, Vanilla, Lime)
Tortuga (Fun, Summery, Fruit, Candy)
High Seas (Aquatic/ozone)
Shipwreck Cove (Aquatic)

Goodfellas' Smile:
Abysso (Aquatic with a smoky twist...one of my favorite aquatic scents)
Inferno (Burning embers, Leather, Spice)

 

[jcroteau]

PAA and Stirling!

 

[SRLNY]

Ethos (favorite specific soaps: Colonia & Greenfresh)
Grooming Dept. (favorites soaps: Angel, L'Avventura, Regenwald)

Those are my top two artisans -- heck, soapmakers, period -- as judged by the quality of the soap for shaving. Close to them would be Arianna & Evans (Kaizen & K2, particular soaps being SoCal Hipster, Vacanza Romana, London Gin Club), Tallow+Steel (West Indies, Sicily, Indian Bay), and Los Jabones de Joserra (Vanitas and Green Twist). The last three -- A&E, T+S, Joserra -- are on the same level that I put the non-artisanal SV and DRH. Not often mentioned but a soap I've used only once so far but enjoyed was Talbot Shaving (Champlain).

 

[Nidan]

I like a soap that smells great during the shave, but the scent doesn’t linger. Mike’s Natural is like that, and I get great results with it. I have the peppermint and rosemary.

 

[hairless wonder]

I've recently tried Captain's Choice creams and soaps. They're fantastic!

I also recently tried a Barrister and Mann soap (42) and loved the lather it made.