All these fantastic-scented, cleverly named soaps and creams. The variety and choices are dizzingly diverse, as they should be. Sure they perform just fine - but on more than one level: They're slick, they smell nice and they cost a bundle. They're sending artisan soap makers' children to college, buying their spoiled daughters the brand new Beemer, maybe upgrading the boat. That's all what entrepreneurial enterprises, free market and freedom of choice is all about.
Nevertheless, I'm a believer in premium quality and performance on the ¢heap which is a function of DIY. And thet Beemer - if I'm to pay for it, it's gonna be in my driveway ... well it IS in my driveway. Anyone with a JCW Mini Cooper
is already aware that it has a plethora of pricey key BMW branded parts in it that make the little car go.
Sure, I have Several Stirling Soaps and ToBS on shelf and I love them all. I also have a puck of Taconic Excalibur - it has an image of the legendary sword on the label, is a transparent golden puck, and comes in a rugged steel tin. I'm a great fan of Shannon's Soaps. As a chemist, she excels in making a good variety of superior balance of slick, smooth and easy to lather soaps. There's Palmolive and Lea sticks, and Williams - one of my first soaps (from remnants of the puck stuck to the bottom of an Old Spice Mug left me when Grandpa passed in the 60's).
If I could choose only one to spend the rest of my shave-life with, any one would be more than sufficient to provide a shave to meet my high expectations.
Decades ago, a Cuban friend somehow got his childhood sweetheart out of Cuba. On a trip to the supermarket she commented on the endless variety of brands and types of soaps, shampoos, deodorants, toothpaste, toilet paper and other items: "Why so many? In Cuba we only have one choice." Reliving a nightmare where the Communist/Socialists attain the keys to the Whitehouse and the economy, and we are reduced to having limited choices, I'd hope to see Cremo and Neutrogena for Sensitive skin remaining on shelf at the local Targetski. It's the blend I compare all my other soaps & creams to - most meet its' performance, but none are any better. And both are Capitalist-crushingly ¢heap. The blend lathers and is exceedingly slick, just as some of the even $pendy artisan soaps wish they were.
I love Cremo and used it exclusively for about 5 years before i got back into the fancier stuff just recently. How do you blend the Cremo and Neutrogena? I'd like to try it.