Hi All,
I stopped by the L'Occitane boutique in Shrewsbury today and picked up the Cade shaving soap and stainless steel bowl (I'll be honest, I did it more for the bowl than anything else, as I am taking a trip to London in a few weeks time and am planning a stop by Jermyn Street to pick up some soap from Harris or maybe, dare I say it, Floris). The first thing that struck me was how soft the soap was; I could put a large dent in with my nail. This is not easy with my current soap -TOBS Jermyn Street. However I got home and, since I try to shave in the morning rather than evening, lathered it up on my hand. This soap is a beauty! The lather is almost as profuse as with my creams! This is clearly a top quality soap. I lathered it with my Kent BLK4, a truly remarkable brush that, sadly, appears to be shedding a few bristles of late. I think the volume of well hydrated, creamy lather was partly down to the softness of the soap and the softness of my brush working together - the lather from the harder TOBS soap is not so profuse, but still great. The scent is subtle, and will not overpower an aftershave or EDT; the scent seems to exist only to make the shaving experience even more pleasurable.
As a bonus, I now have a top quality aluminium container into which I can put any 100g soap!
I will report back after my shave tomorrow morning!
I stopped by the L'Occitane boutique in Shrewsbury today and picked up the Cade shaving soap and stainless steel bowl (I'll be honest, I did it more for the bowl than anything else, as I am taking a trip to London in a few weeks time and am planning a stop by Jermyn Street to pick up some soap from Harris or maybe, dare I say it, Floris). The first thing that struck me was how soft the soap was; I could put a large dent in with my nail. This is not easy with my current soap -TOBS Jermyn Street. However I got home and, since I try to shave in the morning rather than evening, lathered it up on my hand. This soap is a beauty! The lather is almost as profuse as with my creams! This is clearly a top quality soap. I lathered it with my Kent BLK4, a truly remarkable brush that, sadly, appears to be shedding a few bristles of late. I think the volume of well hydrated, creamy lather was partly down to the softness of the soap and the softness of my brush working together - the lather from the harder TOBS soap is not so profuse, but still great. The scent is subtle, and will not overpower an aftershave or EDT; the scent seems to exist only to make the shaving experience even more pleasurable.
As a bonus, I now have a top quality aluminium container into which I can put any 100g soap!
I will report back after my shave tomorrow morning!
