My birthday present is getting returned

[dtezla]

My lovely wife bought me two Caswell-Massey soaps for my birthday recently. She picked up the Eucalyptus and Sandlewood. I'd avoided them because of their poor reputation, but I appreciated the sentiment. I opened the sandlewood and tried shaving with it 4 times. All four times, I failed to make a decent lather and what I did get disappeared within moments of putting it on my face. After 4 terrible shaves, my face was so torn up and irritated that I was forced to tell my wife that I wanted to return the unopened soap for something better.

Considering how much I love Williams Mug soap (which many consider unlatherable), I was really surprised how terrible this soap actually was.

 

[duckdown]

Never heard of the brand, but I appreciate the heads up!

 

[smalltank]

Try more water..the old fomulation of their cream was theee worst..new formulation sappposed to be much better

 

[jpakstis]

Unfortunately Caswell-Massey soaps have an unparalleled reputation for futility. I got some Greenbriar soap once and could barely even make it look like useable lather.

 

[the_edski]

Oh yes, C-M soaps make Williams look like Cella!

 

[rxonmymind]

Use a high speed blender next time. It's there in quantum print. Didn't you know? Lol.
Hope whatever you get next works out for you. At least you gave it a go.

 

[JDTTO]

You could try grating the opened one int a stick and see how it performs that way. Soaps that gave me a hard time as a puck turned put to be great sticks.

 

[dtezla]

I tired 4 times and varied the amount of water and which brush I was using. It just isn't worth the effort - especially considering the amount of irritation I experienced on my face. I'm just going to stick with Williams. I like it and it's cheap. I can get 9 pucks for the price of the one C-M.