Proraso green, different product between tube and tub?

[Feek]

I've been using Proraso green from a tub and to me, it seems like quite a firm and hard cream. I've heard it described as a 'croap' which I guess is a cross between a cream and a soap.

Yesterday, I squeezed some Proraso green out of a tube. It was soft. Very soft, far softer than the stuff that comes out of the tub and it was a lot easier to handle and smear on my face ready for face lathering.

The ingredients on both the tube and tub look identical to me.

So why is it much softer out of the tube compared to the tub?

 

[Pebcak]

Because in the tub it's a soap (albeit it a soft one) and in the tube it's a cream.

 

[Feek]

Oh, now I feel a bit of an idiot! So it's a soft soap rather than a hard cream? It's sold as a cream in the tub though!

 

[Pebcak]

Where have you seen it sold as a cream in the tub? I've always seen it sold as a soap. If fact, and Marco can confirm this or correct my horrible translation, but I think Sapone translates to English as soap.

 

[Feek]

The first two sites I just looked at call it a cream in the tub - Shaving-Shack and nkdman (both UK sites).

/edit - In fact I've been looking round, pretty much everywhere seems to describe it as a cream!

 

[stryker4526]

Proraso in a tub has "sapone de barba" written right on it.
Sapone = soap.
Places selling it as a cream are mistaken.

 

[Attila]

I think of it as a soap, albeit a softer one. Not at all like a tripple milled soap such as Mitchells, the various top brand English names, Mike's or any of the other truly hard soaps. As a result it does get used up faster. But the price point reflects that. You get great performance and value for the money with Proraso. One of my favorites and always in my shave den. Just waiting for the Red to come out in soap form!

 

[chris.hale]

Proraso in a tub has "sapone de barba" written right on it.
Sapone = soap.
Places selling it as a cream are mistaken.

Just to muddy the water, tubes of Proraso cream are also labelled "sapone de barba".

 

[cstephens]

sapone da barba = shaving soap
crema da barba = shaving cream

 

[stryker4526]

Just to muddy the water, tubes of Proraso cream are also labelled "sapone de barba".

Haha... so they are. However, the box says shaving cream on it in like four languages.
Still, I think the tubs are considered a soft soap like RR, Cella, TFS, etc.

 

[Disburden]

Its just semantics. Some people call soaps creams even though they're shaving soaps. If you watch you tube you will see a lot of people saying the soap they are using is,"a great cream" even though it is a soap.

I watched one recently where the proraso soap user said they loved the "cream it made".

 

[chris.hale]

Whatever you call it, Proraso is definitely a product that is my friend, especially the old formula green!

 

[RevSmoke]

You say potato, I say potato.

 

[Disburden]

Whatever you call it, Proraso is definitely a product that is my friend, especially the old formula green!

I still only have the old green tube. Why do you like the old more?

 

[chris.hale]

I still only have the old green tube. Why do you like the old more?

Scent and menthol content. The new formula smells kind of musty and the menthol, which was mild in the old version, is virtually gone in the new. Granted, the new one is a stellar performer, but it just doesn't smell quite right. I will buy it when I've exhausted my stock of the old, but I have two barber-sized tubes to get through first!

 

[Feek]

It's not really semantics. I had no idea that the product in the tub was a soap rather than a cream and it explains why I was struggling when I was scraping it out of the pot and rubbing it onto my face!

That's why I asked the question as I assumed the tub and tube products were the same thing - now I know that they're not

I don't like Proraso any less for knowing it, it's still a great performer.

 

[mharris127]

Proraso tub is a unique character. Since the tub comes completely filled I had to use the first 18 or so lathers by pinching off the appropriate size dollop and lathering in a bowl. Now that the first three or four centimeters that was at the top is used and I have a bit of container to contain my brush I load in the tub, still messy but not too bad. It is noticeably softer than most pucks so it loads quicker as well.

 

[lurker4life]

wow....

 

[Harvey1]

Creams in tube are more liquid than their counterparts in jars. A tube is easily stuck with these more pasty creams. The creams in jars are better (quality) and cheaper. Buy creams in jar whenever possible.

Musgo Real is an exception. Excellent and thick shaving cream... which tube gets easily stuck.

 

[mharris127]

wow....

OK, I looked at my tub. Closer to three centimeters is used after about 25-28 shaves total. I suspect a tub will last for at least 50-60 shaves (the tub has a smaller circumference at the bottom so the container contains less soap).