Please pick three brands of shaving soaps for your life

[M14Shooter]

Grooming Dept
Oleo Duck Fat Base
Murphy and McNeil

 

[Bigbill]

Grooming Dept - duck fat based
Declaration Grooming - tallow based
Stirling

 

[BudgetShaverGuy]

MWF
Tabac
Soap Commander

 

[shoelessjoe]

PannaCrema
Saponificio Varesino
MdC

 

[retroman_1979]

Mwf
Tabac
Razorock


I havent tried many others.....cella and arko are good too for sure

 

[Scaramouche]

Stirling
B&M
T+S

 

[cugel]

tabac
mwf
speick stick

 

[TBoner]

Palmolive
Speick
Valobra

 

[babydials]

B&M
Grooming Department
Wholly Raw

 

[Adam18]

Ariana & Evans
Stirling
Proraso

 

[Reverend Jim]

Mike's
Tabac
Arko

 

[pork]

1. Grooming Dept
2. Wholly Kaw
A few others tied for 3rd.

 

[Earcutter]

I'll terrible at describing scents...but I'll try.

The scent is not strong at all. It smells fresh and masculine - a little citrus and perhaps a hint of cologne. This is a cream you buy for the performance (slickness, protection and post-shave), not for the strength of its scent.

Thats not a bad description of the scent I figure, but why you use is it is bang on. It really is a great performer vs a “scent maker.”

Somehow I don’t think @les24preludes it’s a cream for you though if scent is so paramount.

By the way, it’s originally an odd yellow color until the air hits it.

 

[steveclarkus]

I only use three soaps:
Arko stick, shaved and pressed into a bowl. Love this soap.
Cella, kilo. Another Fantastic soap
New type of the Williams Mug Soap mixed with 1/2 bar Dove (Shea Butter or Cucumber). I'd never mix the vintage Williams but the new stuff needs a tweak. Mixing it with Dove surprisingly makes a fast few second lathering, slick, long lasting, hydrating soap and I get a nice scent, inexpensive too.

Give Williams a mix with Arko and make a pot of Wilko - great soap. Arko lather with Williams slick!

 

[johnwick]

Wholly Kaw
Tabac
SV

 

[Elvergun]

Thats not a bad description of the scent I figure, but why you use is it is bang on. It really is a great performer vs a “scent maker.”

Somehow I don’t think @les24preludes it’s a cream for you though if scent is so paramount.

By the way, it’s originally an odd yellow color until the air hits it.

A friend of mine who has MdC, Nuavia (as do I), and the usual shoe holder full of soaps from various artisans behind his bathroom door, told me about it while I was looking at his stash. He mentioned that it was his best soap. I figured I should give it a try since he owned a lot more soaps than I did. He was right. Now I only use my other soaps when I want to change things around. When I'm looking for a great shave I only use Baume.Be.

The scent is also very nice, but it is not very potent.

 

[Macfrommichigan]

Cade; MWF; DR Harris lavender

 

[User 306]

Euro soaps
PannaCrema
MdC
Saponificio Varesino

USA soaps
Murphy and McNeil
Oleo soapworks
B&M Reserve

 

[mata_66]

Wow, so many fellow wet-shavers still want to smell like Peter Wyngarde in 2019

 

[naughtilus]

Wow, so many fellow wet-shavers still want to smell like Peter Wyngarde in 2019
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The real men here use Tabac and Lilac Vegetal. The others enter large malls and airports unnoticed.