Hello.
Just for the fun of it I made a table documenting the price per 100 g of B&B's most talked about 'budget' shave creams. Results are below. Unit pricing is inclusive of postage (to me, in my corner of the world), and for the cheapest single tube available on a popular shopping marketplace website. I'm on a budget and have a severe cream/soap addiction, and as you can see it's generally probably more worthwhile for me to locally source product. Obviously, postage is the killer for me - postage might be a lot less in your corner of the world. For these prices, I'd honestly probably go for the TOBS refill or at least the Proaso bowl rather than take a gamble on an unknown product that I can't see and sniff beforehand. Hopefully this exercise is a bit of an eye opener for some of you fellow addicts.
Just for the fun of it I made a table documenting the price per 100 g of B&B's most talked about 'budget' shave creams. Results are below. Unit pricing is inclusive of postage (to me, in my corner of the world), and for the cheapest single tube available on a popular shopping marketplace website. I'm on a budget and have a severe cream/soap addiction, and as you can see it's generally probably more worthwhile for me to locally source product. Obviously, postage is the killer for me - postage might be a lot less in your corner of the world. For these prices, I'd honestly probably go for the TOBS refill or at least the Proaso bowl rather than take a gamble on an unknown product that I can't see and sniff beforehand. Hopefully this exercise is a bit of an eye opener for some of you fellow addicts.
Product | Pack Size | Price Per 100g |
International | ||
Karo/Kapo | 100 g | $8.78 |
D’Amaris | 60 g | $9.90 |
Proaso | 150 g | $10.60 |
Figaro | 85 g | $11.91 |
Barbon | 85 g | $11.92 |
Arko | 100 g | $11.99 |
LEA | 100 g | $15.39 |
WARS | 65 g | $18.18 |
LIDER | 65 g | $18.18 |
Subcontinent | ||
Vi-John | 125 g | $8.50 |
Lazer | 125 g | $9.85 |
Park Avenue | 84 g | $9.94 |
Patanjali | 100 g | $10.01 |
Old Spice | 70 g | $12.05 |
Yardley | 91 g | $12.05 |
Dettol | 78 g | $13.34 |
Godrej | 78 g | $13.38 |
Vicco | 70 g | $14.77 |
Asia | ||
Blue’s Goat Milk Soap | 100 g | $9.62 |
Locally available | ||
Sanofi Shave | 75 g | $3.33 |
Palmolive Lather Shave | 65 g | $3.83 |
Derby Tube | 100 g | $5.00 |
Windsor Shave Stick | 50 g | $6.00 |
Figaro | 150 g | $6.63 |
Derby Shaving Soap Bowl | 140 g | $7.85 |
Proraso | 150 g | $8.63 |
Cella | 150 g | $8.63 |
Speick | 75 g | $10.66 |
Taylor of Old Bond Street | 150 g | $15.33 |
TOBS Soap Refill | 100 g | $18 |