I'm guessing $30 in soaps and creams for the year.

[FL shaver]

What do you project your lather cost you this year? I started the year with the remnants of a gifted puck of a Classic Shaving soap. Then I moved on to leftovers of Old Spice, Van der Hagen, Williams, vintage Williams, MWF, and GFT Coconut (gift). May to September was spent with a new puck of Cade. And I am finishing the year with a puck of Arlington. I'm figuring that adds up to about $30 of product, including the occasional shave with a cream or stick when out of town. Next year should be about the same.

The cost of my lather is greater than when I would use 3 or 4 $1 cans of Barbasol for the year, but my blade cost has dropped to $6 a year. Let's leave the hardware out of this, though!

 

[smalltank]

my Trumpers Lime soap is going over 7 months...

 

[kirk 988]

$5 max
2 tubes of palmolive and some normal soap.
i love shave soap but IMHO its too expensive from what ive found

 

[xraygun]

2012? Oh about 3 grand.

 

[Price]

2012? Zero dollars.

2011? Err...I'd rather not think about it.

 

[kirk 988]

2012? Zero dollars.

2011? Err...I'd rather not think about it.

ha ha soaps and not creams ide guess am i true ?

 

[Arcadies]

I dunno..maybe $500 give or take a hundred, it's all massively stockpiled though and will probably last a decade. Tabac for instance..I have a 1 cup Anchor Hocking glass bowl with a 7oz/200g super puck I milled from stick refills (cheaper than buying pucks) that will probably last years alone plus I have another 800g worth of sticks squirreled away..the bastards took my Moos so at least I'm ready if it happens to Tabac. MdC will last forever as well..170g is a healthy chunk of soap and it's uber concentrated, add to that all of my other soaps in a large rotation, yeah..at least a decade.

 

[FL shaver]

How about just counting what was used. It has to be under $100 for everybody and some under $10, like kirk, no?

 

[the_edski]

If you change it to a month rather than year, it's probably close enough to what I do. Here's hoping I can be a sabbaticalian in '13!

 

[celestino]

Yep, that under $30 seems about right for the year, but i only use soaps, so it may even be less.

 

[kirk 988]

How about just counting what was used. It has to be under $100 for everybody and some under $10, like kirk, no?

yeah 2 tubes of palmolive are all i need. but it would be a ''luxury'' to try another soap so the count may raise to $30 max if i buy a puck
last year i used 2 dollars worth of fauldings and some PIF soap that was great but harsh on my skin. i need to get myself a new omega before soap though.
boars rock

 

[ksb63]

100 so far(should make rest of year)

 

[Pasanova]

$90 so far. I thought wet shaving was supposed to be cheaper. LOL

 

[banditman]

What do you project your lather cost you this year? I started the year with the remnants of a gifted puck of a Classic Shaving soap. Then I moved on to leftovers of Old Spice, Van der Hagen, Williams, vintage Williams, MWF, and GFT Coconut (gift). May to September was spent with a new puck of Cade. And I am finishing the year with a puck of Arlington. I'm figuring that adds up to about $30 of product, including the occasional shave with a cream or stick when out of town. Next year should be about the same.

The cost of my lather is greater than when I would use 3 or 4 $1 cans of Barbasol for the year, but my blade cost has dropped to $6 a year. Let's leave the hardware out of this, though!

Yep, $30 would just about cover what I spent this year to resupply my soap and get more blades. The soap will carry me into next year pretty easily so I probably won't order anything else until I need to.

 

[GunzRX]

yeah 2 tubes of palmolive are all i need. but it would be a ''luxury'' to try another soap so the count may raise to $30 max if i buy a puck
last year i used 2 dollars worth of fauldings and some PIF soap that was great but harsh on my skin. i need to get myself a new omega before soap though.
boars rock

Try pears, williams, or arko if you want a cheap shave soap that is still excellent.

Palmolive is great though, can't be beat.

Also for a cheap cream try godrej, or a cheap east euro/turkish cream (I just seen them on bestshave.net not advertising). shaveabuck too I just mention those because I haven't researched the creams just seen them.

Idk how cheap palmolive is for you, but I know Biotique Bio Palmyra lasts awhile, is all natural Ayurvedic and cheap too like under $5 shipped. desistores.net you can get good creams for under a dollar. Lol (like 40-50 rupees).

 

[wrm2012]

If I control myself next year should be $0 or I could count the $21 for 15 Arko sticks I just got. That should last me well over a year. This year I would guess about $40 ish I go through a cake of VDH about every month or so and every now and then I pick up atube of Proraso

 

[milkshakefiend]

Before I switched to DE, I was using king of shaves gel that retails for about £6/150ml over here - full tube every month. Right now I've got 1 TOBS soap and 1 T&H cream, although I may or may not have bought a TOBS cream and some Col Conk over the weekend

So I guess I'm coming in under the £72 I would have spent, because I'm not even halfway through the TOBS soap yet, let alone any of the others. No doubt I'll find spare pennies in my student budget for acquisitions throughout the year though..!

 

[gangaskan]

i should be good for a whole year with arko!


i still have some VDH and poraso too! not to mention a puck of Old Spice thats been sitting in a mug i need to soak it for a while though

 

[mdove47]

This has been kind of expensive year for me as I am just getting started. I bought 8 pucks/mugs of Old Spice, about 8 tubes of CO Bigelow and a couple of tubes of Real Shaving Company. As an aside, also spent on everything else too, but some of the razors are for grandsons when they start shaving, (I got both of them a Slim Adjustable).

 

[Slyko]

Good for You!

Soaps & creams are my downfall! Sure, you can spend a fortune if you let it, $750 straights, 7 or 8 DEs, like anything, you can go nuts. My wife complains I have more goodies than she does. I already bought my Christmas gift for shaving. 4 mama bears soaps in a gift box!

I love it! And for $20 I got away cheap!

I wish all my hobbies cost so much! Just let it go, you know you love it!